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.
There is a serious governance failure in dealing with the student demands for merit-based recruitment system in Bangladesh’s government jobs.
The government is complicating and antagonising a solvable proposition by ordinary citizens
These latest developments add to the concerns over the increasing tendency towards intolerance and the preference for violent means to suppress any dissent.
What made them flood campus streets on Sunday night was a specific comment that touched a nerve for the wider student community.
The universal pension would be out of reach of the extremely poor, such as day labourers, due to their inability to make contributions.
To attain the objectives of both strong institutions and inclusivity, assistance need not always come in the form of a quota for the backward sections.
If we compare the state to a four-legged chair, the government represents only one leg.
What could have been resolved through a discussion as expected from any government, ended up being yet another violent suppression of the voices of students
