Here's the test: Can our leaders take a joke? Can they handle criticism without reaching for handcuffs? Can they distinguish between dissent and disinformation? Because if they can't, we haven't replaced one authoritarian regime with democracy. We've just swapped the faces. And that's not funny at all.
So yes, what Tangia did was wrong, absolutely no doubt. But let's not pretend this outrage is about justice. Justice would mean holding everyone to the same standard. This is about control. And we really need to talk about who we're controlling, and why.
IN a post-modern Bangladesh where everyone has their own truth and we have no shared history or experience, how do we come together to build the nation?