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Power, privilege, peril: The many hues of Bangladesh’s green passport

Power, privilege, peril: The many hues of Bangladesh’s green passport

In 2009, I wrote “The Green Passport”, a musing based on my travels plights standing in hotel lobbies in Northeast India, clutching my Bangladeshi...

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Zakir Kibria, Dhaka Tribune

Fixing what isn’t broken: The problem with reactionary amendments after crimes of sexual violence

Fixing what isn’t broken: The problem with reactionary amendments after crimes of sexual violence

In response to two separate high-profile instances of sexual assault, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal have passed new, stringent laws to enhance...

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Eesha Shrotriya

Trump’s MAGA + Modi’s MIGA = A mega contradiction

Trump’s MAGA + Modi’s MIGA = A mega contradiction

In his visit to Washington last fortnight, Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed a new equation in US-India relations: “MAGA MIGA = MEGA...

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Ashok Swain

Ramachandra Guha: Can India forge its own environmentally responsible path to economic growth?

Ramachandra Guha: Can India forge its own environmentally responsible path to economic growth?

In his 1994 book, The Age of Extremes, the celebrated Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawm, wrote: “It is no accident that the main support for...

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Ramachandra Guha

Bugbears and baggage: Mending India-Bangladesh bilateral ties

Bugbears and baggage: Mending India-Bangladesh bilateral ties

Where do Bangladesh and India go from here? Literary gatherings are not exactly known to be hubs of policy discussion, but the mammoth Jaipur...

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Sudeep Chakravarti, Dhaka Tribune