Tag Archive: bangladesh

Bangladesh unrest exposes political divide

By an Al Jazeera Staff Saturday’s protests were officially called and led by the Hefazat-e-Islam party – a conservative Muslim party Dhaka grinds to a near halt most days now. Protests and counter-protests… Read More

Chittagong: A Review

Louis Proyect, the author of this piece, is the moderator of the Marxism mailing list, where his various articles first appear. For information on how to subscribe to the list, go here. Active in… Read More

Without a Nation: Stateless Biharis in Bangladesh

Akanksha Pandey lives and works in Dhaka, Bangladesh. At present, the world has numerous nationalities and national territories, however, there are few many communities either without nation or doomed to be subject of… Read More

Lost on the way to Dohagram Angorpota

Nicolas Haque is Dhaka (Bangladesh) based correspondent of Al Jazeera. Nicolas Haque In the northern districts where Bangladesh meets India, there are no street signs to tell you where you are. So after… Read More

Fallibility of official narratives on development

Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir teaches development studies at the University of Dhaka and is the chair of the Unnayan Onneshan, a think-tank, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Do the official narratives explain the development… Read More