Like in India, the left in Bangladesh is currently anaemic; unlike its Indian counterpart, however, the Bangladeshi left has been in this state for decades. Contesting under the Awami League
Father told me that stealing is wrong. But what the hell, let´s hear it for Roopa of Hanumanthanagar, who Deccan Herald reports has been "resorting to vehicle-lifting as
On 11 January 2007, it was easy to see that change was in the air in Bangladesh. The military-controlled Interim Government that swept into power on that day rode the
It has been a month of high drama in Bangladeshi politics – things have been melodramatic, in fact, even for election season. The storm that has been gathering over many months
The political situation in Bangladesh has become so volatile that anything a reporter writes runs the risk of being out of date by the time it gets to print. The
Less than three weeks after Kazi Arif, deputy chief of the leftist Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) party, was gunned down along with five others while addressing a peace rally in
The capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, is a killer city and shows no sign of letting up on its homicidal spree. Every day, newspapers report of one death or another as
Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has declared that she will begin her movement to dislodge Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League after the Eid festival
The Bangladesh government's 1995 case against poet and activist Farhad Mazhar resulted from the publication of his article, "The Ansar Rebellion", in the Bengali magazine Chinta.
The general elections held last year merely changed the seats of the belligerent parties and not the state of political war within Bangladesh. For the moment, the political tension in
