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A cartoonist’s journey towards red July

‘BE READY, there is a chance that they can take you away any day now.’ This was the warning my editor, Nurul Kabir, gave me after more than two decades of career as editorial cartoonist at the daily ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·. It was July 23, and by then, the student’s movement for reforms in the quota system in public services had already...

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Extraordinary situation calls for extraordinary measures

BANGLADESH, following the overthrow of an extremely repressive government of the Awami League, in the face of a great democratically oriented student-mass uprising and subsequent voluntary disappearances of all the League leaders from the country’s political scene, obviously with a view to escaping court proceedings...

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A major challenge ahead

THE student-led July mass uprising for a democratic political and economic order, which culminated in the ouster of the brutally authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina from power, forcing her to flee the country and take refuge in India, the hegemonic neighbour that patronised Hasina to cling to power without proper people’s mandate for years, has installed an ‘interim government’, led by globally known Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, to fix the order — if not fully democratise the state...

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