Ziauddin Choudhury

Bloodshed in Brussels and Angst of Muslims of the West

Terrorists struck again within six months of the carnage in Paris, this time in Brussels, the city that serves as headquarters of both NATO and European Union. Brussels is not unknown to terrorism; the city saw acts of terror no less than six times in the past few years, but none with the ferocity and violence

9y ago

Who guards the guardhouse?

In a surreal digital theft that befits a high octane movie thriller, we were recently informed of the daring heist at

9y ago

Donald Trump- using democracy to an autocratic future?

The avalanche of Donald Trump's presidential campaign success reached new levels this Tuesday...

9y ago

Nepal's plight: Land locked or India-locked?

After months of a chill in Indo-Nepal relationship, there is new sign of things warming up and India's loosening of the vise on Nepal. The Prime Minister of Nepal signed several treaties with India in his latest visit to Delhi early February, but only after his country had agreed to amend the recently adopted Nepalese Constitution that apparently had caused the Indian resentment, and put Nepal in the wrong end of the stick.

9y ago

Law enforcement and accountability

In the last one year, the news that mostly occupied headlines in the US concerned police excesses.

9y ago

A runaway bureaucracy

In 1972, shortly after liberation, I used to work in the Prime Minister's secretariat in a small cubbyhole of a room that was hardly big enough for one desk and two chairs.

9y ago

From a winter of discontent to a spring of hope

A year ago from today not even a savvy soothsayer would have dared to predict the change in our political climate that we are witnessing now.

9y ago

Of turmoil and complacency

THE year 2015 began with a perilous journey of confrontation between the main opposition and the government. On the anniversary of the 2014...

9y ago
September 9, 2015
September 9, 2015

When enough is enough

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

September 3, 2015
September 3, 2015

The lure of extremism

Muslim Bangladeshis living in the UK recently became a focus of interest to all Bangladeshis living home and abroad when the news of some young Muslims of Bangladeshi origin joining the so-called Islamic State in Syria/Iraq struck the front page.

July 26, 2015
July 26, 2015

Playing Solitaire In A Parliamentary Democracy

Democracy in a one-party state may sound like an oxymoron, but such a thing does exist in our known world. In a single-party state

July 15, 2015
July 15, 2015

A crowded bandwagon of hopefuls

In another fifteen months, the world's eyes will be riveted on the United States to see who the next US President will be.

July 7, 2015
July 7, 2015

The season of manmade disasters

That time is upon us again. Not just to witness people hitting markets for shopping, but also to see them leaving in droves for homes to see their dear ones.

June 30, 2015
June 30, 2015

Managing fan behaviour and exuberance

The series victory in cricket against India has taken our people on a joy ride that the country does not witness very often.

June 14, 2015
June 14, 2015

Modi is no Gandhi

The agony and ecstasy over Prime Minister Modi's visit to Bangladesh is now gone. Dust is settling over the commotion and hype

June 2, 2015
June 2, 2015

Questions never answered

Recalling a nightmare is never a pleasant experience, yet every year this time my mind is thrown back to the eerie morning of May 30,

May 24, 2015
May 24, 2015

Boatloads of human misery

For full two weeks or thereabouts in April the media in the west, particularly the US, were ablaze with news of hundreds of migrants

May 16, 2015
May 16, 2015

The blurring of distinction between law enforcement and law breaking

This is not common in countries where the law enforcement machinery is handicapped by a serious gap in training and education in professionalism, human rights, and behaviour.