Mirza Ahmad is an independent writer with a strong interest in politics, religion, and human rights. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, he brings a nuanced perspective to pressing global and regional debates.
Here is the cruel asymmetry that exposes the game. Hurt religious sentiment is always, unfailingly, something felt by the majority or by those who claim to speak in its name. No minority, no freethinker, no ordinary citizen can ever demand accountability for the trampling of their own emotions.
Not the overthrow of dictators, but the revolution of humility, compassion, and forgiveness. A lesson Bangladesh has never practiced, but one leader showed us how it is done.
1971 built a nation from nothing. 2024 has given us a chance to repair it. Independence is absolute; democratic reform is fragile.
When justice is replaced by selective rage, even agents of hope risk becoming architects of chaos -- threatening the very foundation of the New Bangladesh.
Bangladesh should welcome global partners to improve its ports, cut costs, and create jobs -- saying no out of fear will only hold us back again