Eighteen-year-old Alif Hassan Rahat, a student from Milestone College in Uttara, dreamed of becoming a rocket engineer.
Identity and ideology politics also played an essential role in brewing the Bangla Bashanta.
After Hasina’s fall, we must strive to build a pro-people, inclusive society
Bangladesh is heading down an extremely dangerous path
Students who were shot dead and injured were simply exercising their democratic rights and posed no threat to anybody.
When Tahir Zaman Priyo was gunned down around 5:00pm on July 19 just behind Labaid Hospital in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi, his friend Faria Ulfath Syed heard just a single gunshot.
The July massacre has brought the credibility of this regime into question.
It is astounding how little a regime in power for 15 years understands the new form of student politics.
The impact of all these on the poor and low-income groups will be devastating.
The verdict is in. The Appellate Division through its observations has recommended that quotas be restricted to seven percent: five percent for freedom fighters’ descendants, one percent for ethnic minorities, and one percent for people with disabilities.
Never before has there been such a lengthy internet outage encompassing the whole country.
What can possibly justify any response by the law enforcement that has led to this death toll?
A nation-wide government curfew was declared from midnight on Friday till 10 am on Sunday.
Why did it use so much force if it was “principally” in favour of quota reforms?
What is happening in Bangladesh right now is truly unfathomable.
I wonder if this is how the nights must have felt during those nine months of the Liberation War.
The responsibility for this bloodshed cannot be avoided by either the government or the university authorities.
