Author: Mahmud Newaz Joy

The darkness that comes down on the Chittagong Hill Tracts after midnight is not something you can reason with. It is not the thin, negotiable dark…

A recurring habit in South Asian political commentary is to narrate a moral timeline: societies are imagined as having moved from a “secular past” to a…

In Bangladesh, a rise in fuel prices sets off a predictable chain reaction. Transport owners call for fare hikes. Authorities negotiate. Fares go up. And then—nothing.…

Bangladesh may be heading toward its first major crisis under the new government—not a political scandal, not a constitutional deadlock, but something far more immediate and…

Economic sanctions are one of the most widely used tools of foreign policy in modern international relations. They are often presented as a “middle path” between…

The death of Ali Khamenei has reopened a question that had long simmered beneath the surface of Iranian politics: if the Islamic Republic is to change,…

In the canon of twentieth-century decolonization, the story of Bangladesh is often told as a tale of war. The year 1971, the brutality of military repression,…

Iran today is a country caught between inward fear and outward defiance. On its streets, frustration has hardened into anger—anger over a collapsing currency, rising prices,…

The emergence of Bangladesh as an independent state in 1971 placed it at the crossroads of South Asian geopolitics. Born out of a violent liberation war,…

বাংলাদেশের রাজনীতিতে নতুন দল মানেই অনেক সময় একধরনের স্বস্তির নিঃশ্বাস। পুরোনো দ্বন্দ্ব, পরিচিত মুখ, একঘেঁয়ে চর্বিত চর্বণে ক্লান্ত মানুষ—সবকিছুর বাইরে কিছু একটা আসবে, এই প্রত্যাশা থেকেই…