Who will the citizens vote for in the next election?
28 March 2025
Survey says BNP leads with 41.7%, but data is from a fraction of total sample.
28 March 2025
Giving people power beyond the ballot box
12 March 2025
Democracy is not just about elections.
12 March 2025
Creation of the new political order: Rebuilding ship in an open and turbulent sea
25 August 2024
The past Awami League regime completely undermined the forms of accountability and checks and balances that characterise a liberal and representative democracy.
25 August 2024
What should women wear?
26 May 2023
In May 2022, a young woman, who lives in Dhaka city, was verbally and physically assaulted at a train station in Narsingdi while waiting for a Dhaka-bound train.
26 May 2023
Dr Zafrullah’s real utopia
28 April 2023
Zafrullah’s socialism was useful in contrast to ones offered by the dominant leftist parties of the country, characterised by theoretical obscurantism, fractiousness, political irrelevance, and their inconsequentiality to the daily lives of the masses.
28 April 2023
On Democratic Socialism
1 March 2019
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the 20th century's ideological contest seemed over. Capitalism had won and socialism
1 March 2019
Football and nationalisms in Bengal
22 July 2018
Metaphors of "war" and "tribalism" have been invariably used in writings on football by observers ranging from eminent writers like Arthur Koestler and George Orwell to professional historians and media commentators of sports.
22 July 2018
The Ghost of Marx
30 May 2018
A ghost is haunting the global capitalist elites—the ghost of Karl Marx.
30 May 2018
Karl Marx in Bangladesh, Part 2
Did Maulana Bhashani—the famous Red Maulana—ever read Marx? I recently asked this question to a prominent biographer of Bhashani—Syed Abul Maksud. His answer was, “Probably not.”
5 May 2018
Karl Marx in Bangladesh, Part 1
No I am not talking about my encounter with the ghost of Karl Marx in Bangladesh. If you are interested in such stories you should read Howard Zinn's Marx in Soho or Sumonto Bandyopadhyay's Bhuture Molakat (Ghostly Encounter)—two hilarious and, at the same time, intellectually erudite accounts of meeting the ghost of Marx in New York and Kolkata, respectively. Rather, what I am going to narrate here is
4 May 2018
The moral politics of Dr Kamal
In mid-1993, Dr Kamal (I am following the popular lingo of addressing him) was experiencing the most critical phase in his political career – he was about to leave Awami League on principled grounds.
19 April 2017