In Bangladesh, we love democracy, cherish it and fight for it, but we have repeatedly failed to make it durable.

After our Liberation War, we started off with the parliamentary system of government. Then Bangabandhu himself betrayed that vision and that of multiparty democracy by instituting BAKSAL, a one-party system, and introducing the presidential model of government.

America’s most powerful attraction—freedom of thought—is under stress today.

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expected Iran to crumble when they launched the surprise attack on February 28 while negotiations were going on, killing the latter’s supreme leader and several others.

Choose cabinet with utmost care, for it may determine success or failure

Discard the mindset that ‘the election is only fair if I win’

After the last three manipulated elections, the people of Bangladesh are eagerly waiting to exercise their fundamental right to vote.

What perhaps would be most appropriate on this occasion is a few unattributed quotes that say “Gone from our sight, present in our conscience”, “A chapter closes but the story continues”, “The leader departs but the ideals remain”.

Judicial independence is formally guaranteed; its actual implementation will require moral courage from judges themselves.

No compromise on holding elections on time

Yesterday, according to TV reports, the AL general secretary and the foreign minister commented on this paper -- one was an unsubstantiated  perspective and the other a charade.

A government cannot always be totally moral, but a president has to be.

There is a peculiar trend in Bangladesh. When someone starts something innovative, then hundreds of copycats spoil it.