Between China and the US, Who Has the Edge in Bangladesh?
Seven months into Tarique Rahman’s premiership, the clearest illustration of where things stand arrived not from a communiqué but from a press briefing. On 25 August, Zahed Ur Rahman, the prime minister’s information and broadcasting adviser, said the relevant Bangladeshi procurement committees had prepared draft agreements concerning J-10CE multirole fighters and attack helicopters, which…
July Revolution: Beyond Hopes and Disappointments
Two years after the student-led people’s uprising dismantled the fifteen-year autocracy of Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh finds itself navigating the complex realities of structural recalibration. The euphoric aftermath of August 2024, baptized by its architects as the “July Revolution”, promised an immediate democratic renaissance. Yet as the initial revolutionary dust settles across the streets of…
The Hydro-Geopolitical Chessboard: The Teesta River Dispute, China’s Ingress, and India’s Strategic Dilemma
Transboundary rivers have historically served as the lifelines of human civilisation, yet in modern South Asia, they increasingly function as arenas of intense geopolitical competition. The long-festering dispute over the Teesta River between India and Bangladesh serves as a prime case study of how a localised, upper-versus-lower riparian resource conflict can mutate into a…
The Battle for Bangladesh’s Soul: A Four-Way Struggle for a National Slogan
Bangladesh finds itself at historical, ideological, and rhetorical crossroads, caught in a profound schism over the adoption of a definitive national slogan. Far from a mere dispute over semantics or state branding, the contemporary debate has crystallized into a high-stakes confrontation between four competing, deeply entrenched ideologies. In this volatile theatre of political discourse,…
