In Bangladesh, we love democracy, cherish it and fight for it, but we have repeatedly failed to make it durable.

After our Liberation War, we started off with the parliamentary system of government. Then Bangabandhu himself betrayed that vision and that of multiparty democracy by instituting BAKSAL, a one-party system, and introducing the presidential model of government.

America’s most powerful attraction—freedom of thought—is under stress today.

The prime minister’s quote that I use as the headline of this column is music to our ears, constituting the most vital policy directive that this country needs to take.

A fact that we don’t discuss much, and seem to have taken as a given, is the politicisation of our various professions.

When independent, objective and fact-based newspapers are set on fire, it is democracy that burns.

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expected Iran to crumble when they launched the surprise attack on February 28 while negotiations were going on, killing the latter’s supreme leader and several others.

High unemployment, weak investment, the need for job creation, curbing inflation, export diversification, and stabilising the banking sector are among the most urgent economic challenges.

Those of us who were there at the Ramna Race Course on that day have our own personal memories. Reminiscing them still warms our blood and generates that special feeling of pride that automatically holds our heads high.

Critical decisions are usually judged by three things: their merit, method, and meaning or significance.

Choose cabinet with utmost care, for it may determine success or failure

Discard the mindset that ‘the election is only fair if I win’

We are now justifiably focused on the upcoming general election, which will hopefully give us an elected and accountable government and restart our journey towards democracy.

After the last three manipulated elections, the people of Bangladesh are eagerly waiting to exercise their fundamental right to vote.

Her last speeches call for a politics of ‘no vengeance’.

Begum Rokeya led a deeply pious life, full of respect for Islam and its values.

Judicial independence is formally guaranteed; its actual implementation will require moral courage from judges themselves.

Why have we failed to give quality education to schoolgoers?

Her reputation lies in ruins and her political career buried under a mountain of debris of self-righteous arrogance, misgovernance, and impunity

No compromise on holding elections on time