Book review: Bina D’Costa’s ‘Nationbuilding, Gender and War crimes in South...
Sandy Gordon In her new book, Bina D’Costa provides a convincing picture of the role of war, war crime (especially against women) and myth in the construction of modern South Asian nation-states. The...
View ArticleChina’s investment spurs Bangladesh development
Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe This article was first posted in Future Directions International on 15 June 2011 Background On 9 June 2011, Bangladesh signed a loan agreement worth US$211 million ($198...
View ArticleIndia and Bangladesh: calculus of territorial dispute settlement
Guest author: Sourabh Gupta, Samuels International This article was first posted in East Asia Forum on 10 October 2011. On 7 September 2011 in Dacca, the prime ministers of India and Bangladesh signed...
View ArticleAssam: friction in a crucial corridor
Sandy Gordon A week ago some 48 people were killed in Assam in clashes between the Bodo ethnic group (a Tibetan-Burmese people who are now predominantly Christian and Hindu) and Muslim Bengali...
View Article‘Promoting peace and maintaining stability’: the evolution of the Bangladesh...
Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe This article originally appeared in South Asia Defence and Strategic Review As a Bay of Bengal littoral state Bangladesh has strong maritime interests. Increasingly,...
View ArticleThe rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Bangladesh and its implications for women
Eshan Motwani The attack on Nadia Sharmin, a news reporter for Ekushey Television, by a group of Islamist activists last month was a brutal reminder of the wave of anti-secularism that has gripped...
View ArticleWill gains for Bangladesh workers founder on political reality?
Sharif As-Saber In the two months since the collapse of the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh left 1129 people dead and hundreds more still unaccounted for, world attention has turned from the actual cause of...
View ArticleSham election sets dangerous standard for Bangladesh
Tom Felix Joehnk For more than two decades Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League (AL) and Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) have ruled Bangladesh. They hate each other viscerally and...
View ArticleFEATURE ARTICLE: Borodin – Christmas in Bangladesh
Joyce Das It was around 9 am on Christmas morning. I was on my way to Savar, about 24 kilometres to the northwest of Dhaka city, the place that is mostly famous for Jatiyo Smriti Soudho, the National...
View ArticleBCIM Corridor a game changer for South Asian trade
Pravakar Sahoo and Abhirup Bhunia The Bangladesh–China–India–Myanmar (BCIM) Economic Corridor will increase socioeconomic development and trade in South Asia. The initiative seeks to improve...
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