THE Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime is over after 16 years and we are now in a new phase which is best described as interim. From the look of things, it seems to be heading towards the earlier pre-2007鈥�8 BNP-Jamaat alliance phase...
MORE than a decade back, we wrote in this paper that the idea of the state alone having the right to own and run governance institutions, particularly at the grass roots, was not practical and others could be used. I, in particular, suggested non-governmental organisations that had direct experience on both the grass roots and micro-governance...
NOTHING works like social media when it comes to spreading news as it shows regularly in everyday life. Scandals, sports religion or bed bug spray are all now dependent on social media. If it is not there, it is nowhere. And, this is increasingly becoming clear that while the official, formal and state-inspired agencies...
THIS has been a good few months for sensational media items and Bangladesh appears to be choking with such content which readers love. First, there was the murder and mince-meating of a member of parliament in a Kolkata apartment possibly over a fallout of smuggling and other deals gone sour and over the share of profits, etc...
THE recent murder of a Bangladeshi lawmaker in Kolkata and the media attention it has drawn should be a lesson for all pondering politics, crime and the role of various institutions in Bangladesh. It is not just criminals who are taking the heat but the system as well...