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#Perspective / How a country fought back with slogans

In July 2024, Bangladesh’s youth-led quota protests ignited a powerful cultural uprising, using chants as political weapons to challenge authoritarianism, reclaim identity, and reshape national memory through a new language of resistance and unity.

In the halls of fear, an uprising was born

In Bangladesh, authoritarianism began with a knock on a dorm room door.

July 26, 2025
July 26, 2025

How a country fought back with slogans

In July 2024, Bangladesh’s youth-led quota protests ignited a powerful cultural uprising, using chants as political weapons to challenge authoritarianism, reclaim identity, and reshape national memory through a new language of resistance and unity.

June 29, 2025
June 29, 2025

In the halls of fear, an uprising was born

In Bangladesh, authoritarianism began with a knock on a dorm room door.