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Can truth ever reclaim its place from power?

In the dimly lit corridors of the developing world’s politics, truth often walks with a limp — scarred, bent, and barely audible — while power parades in a blinding spotlight, gilded with slogans, spectacles, and silence. The question — what holds more value in political culture, ‘power’ or ‘truth’?—may appear philosophical, but its answer, as Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman...

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In need of a truth commission

THE victims of Aynaghar, where they were held in inhuman conditions during the Awami League regime, have started to recount the horrific ordeals that they have gone through. The victims come from different age groups as well as political and social backgrounds. The victims of enforced disappearances must now get justice...

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Truth dies, truth braves, Assange goes home

THE truth defies power and denies dying. Truth survives by surmounting odds and obstacles. Despite this trajectory of truth, sometimes it appears to be dying — a short phenomenon in life. Julian Assange’s journey to freedom presents this fact: a simultaneous act of surviving and the apparent dying of truth. The Spanish define truth in a proverb: ‘Truth is God’s daughter’. The daughter lives...

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