Commentary & opinion
Commentary on governance, democracy, security and Bangladesh’s place in the world — first published by CGS, or republished from other outlets and clearly labelled.
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Against the backdrop of a frightful pandemic the present lull in political activities in the country is understandable though not desirable. Yet the phenomenon of discernible…
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How Asia’s largest slum conquered the coronavirus Could the teeming Mumbai slum of Dharavi contain the answers in controlling the Covid-19 pandemic? It didn’t appear so…
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ON this day in 1974, Edward Nalon took his own life at a prison in Ontario, Canada, after being jostled between segregation units and solitary confinement…
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The foreign policy of the Nepal Communist Party government has been a blanket failure. Nepal-India relations are in an unprecedented gridlock. It belies the much-touted 'uniqueness'…
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The detonation was a catastrophe caused by an irresponsible, criminal state that is hostile to its own population The devil was prowling there, right next to…
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Everybody knows who controls Lebanon’s ports, airports and national borders. Everybody knows how hundreds of tons of Iranian weapons and explosives have made their way into…
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Floods and other climate variations significantly impact food production and quality of life for Bangladeshis Bangladesh is in essence an agrarian country in a deltaic environment…
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This is a tale of two cities over two dates. Fred Frankfurter lives in New York, where he works as a stock chooser, or securities analyst…
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The explosions that devastated Beirut have shown the world the ugly, but true, face of Lebanon; like the thousands of windows shattered by the shockwave, any…
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Mongolia, Malaysia, Japan, and South Korea prove that COVID-19 elections are possible, but difficult. One of the cascading effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been its…
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India’s takeover, complicated by Covid lockdown, has “broken the spine of the economy” On the anniversary of the August 5 takeover of the Kashmir region by…
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Xi Jinping is standing in an open military vehicle as it rolls down Beijing’s Avenue of Heavenly Peace. He greets the thousands of troops lined up…
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The pandemic has shown that rich democracies aren't necessarily best equipped to solve difficult problems Dnyanesh Kamat Whether and to what degree countries have been able…
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Because of the focus on what Xi will do in 2022, an important question has been ignored: who will take Li Keqiang’s place? Andrei Lungu Who…
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Wage cuts and underspendingare a direct route to another Great Depression. The US and Germany seem to be headed that way. Heiner Flassbeck In the US…
