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You’ve seen them flying the banner of **’Shamm, Humanistic Morjada, and Inshaf’** \[Equality, Human Dignity, and Justice\], haven’t you? The spelling of those who fly this banner is a little different from mine, so mine might seem unfamiliar; they say it like this: **Samya, Manobik Morjada, ebong Samajik Nyaybichar** \[Equality, Human Dignity, and Social…

Various political conflicts are currently present in the country, bringing forth multiple logics from many sides. However, I suspect we are facing a fundamental problem now: the crisis of historical narrative—in a word, I’d like to call this topic, ‘Rationalizing Bangladesh.’ We have arrived at such a moment in history where the Awami/Baomi/Indian narrative…

On the Politics of Enmity: Party USP and the Fallacy of the Hasina Model Political enmity will persist, and parties continue to practice it. However, I find these parties quite lost regarding this matter, and their thinking about their own Unique Selling Proposition (USP) is quite blurred! So, I want to offer a couple…

There’s a long-standing notion in this country—the politics of division (bibhajoner rajniti). Yet, I’ve never found a clear understanding of it anywhere; it seems to me that various factions complain about their political enemies in this regard, and all of them claim that the way to end this harmful politics is to achieve unanimity…

English Translation of the Text I received a specimen of Buddha’s wisdom from an academic I know, which goes like this: A boat is needed to cross the river, but after reaching the other shore, the boat is merely a burden, and carrying it on your head is sheer foolishness. I intensely dislike using…

Considering the history of language and meaning, ‘Mahfil’ (often spelled as ‘Majlish’ or ‘Mafil’) could originally mean any gathering. We could call any public declaration by someone in a gathering a ‘Mahfil’. However, in Bangladesh, the meaning of ‘Mahfil’ has been restricted to only gatherings for Islamic discourses. Similarly, the original broad, literary meaning…