Bangladesh’s President Mohammed Shahabuddin faced growing pressure on Monday to quit from leaders of the revolution that toppled autocratic ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina in August, who argue he was her appointee. Shahabuddin, 74, widely known as “Chuppu”, was elected by parliament in 2023 by Hasina’s now ousted Awami League, but while the post is largely […]
A Bangladeshi court on Thursday ordered an arrest warrant for exiled ex-leader Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India in August after she was toppled from power by a student-led revolution. “The court has […] ordered the arrest of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and to produce her in court on November 18,” Mohammad Tajul Islam, […]
The son of Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, said he was happy with the army chief’s timeline for elections within 18 months, though it was later than expected, but warned that genuine reform and polls were impossible without her party. General Waker-uz-Zaman, whose refusal to stand by Hasina in the face of deadly student […]
WATCH | Saba Naqvi in conversation with Sudeep Chakravarti In the context of his latest book, Fallen City, the author talks about Bangladesh’s transformation over the years, violence against the nation’s Hindus, protests in Kolkata, and more. | Video Credit: Interview: Saba Naqvi; Camera: Dipesh Arora; Production Assistant: Vitasta Kaul and Vedaant Lakhera; Editing: Samson […]
The prolific author Sudeep Chakravarti’s 10th book, Fallen City, is about Delhi, where two children, Geeta and Sanjay, were brutally murdered in 1978. He places the crime in a socio-political context. Chakravarti’s own life is as interesting as his work and he has just emerged after three years in Dhaka, where he set up a […]
“Made our house with blood Delhi tries to scare us with water” Thus reads a couplet from a popular poet in Dhaka: Hasan Robayet. He has been a key figure in the recent student movement in Bangladesh that ousted Sheikh Hasina on August 5. Since then, Hasina has remained in India, which has only added […]
