Category: Commentary
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Bye-Bye Interim Government: You Will Not Be Missed
As Bangladesh swears in a new government on 17 February 2026, the Yunus-led interim administration leaves office the way it governed: with lofty language, weak protection, and a widening gap between “transition” and justice. This was not an ordinary handover. The July 2024 uprising followed years of shrinking civic space and ended in a crackdown…
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Alert! Bangladeshi Elite Feminists: Queer People Are Done Covering For You!
We heard it again: vote for the lesser evil, protect women, stop the nightmare, save democracy. Many of us did, not because we felt safe or represented, but because queer people in Bangladesh have always lived inside survival politics and know what it means to choose the option that may harm us less rather than…
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Defending Capital Punishment ‘in certain Cases’ Do You Even Hear Yourself?
Every time capital punishment comes up, the same people start talking about justice, humanity, equality, and rights, until the moment a crime horrifies them. Then suddenly it’s, “Hang them.” “Execution.” “They don’t deserve to live.” So what exactly do you believe in? You can’t build your politics around human dignity and then decide dignity has…
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