On inflation and reform
Bangladesh is in a purgatory between revolution and constitutional continuity
I am supposed to talk about inflation at a reform dialogue in a few hours.
I will post my talking points later. For now, I am jotting down two points that have come up repeatedly in various formal and informal conversations in the last few weeks:
Bangladesh is in a post-revolutionary situation in the sense that the state machinery, always weak but hollowed out under Hasina, practically collapsed two months ago;
but the key stakeholders, in the first 48-72 hours after Hasina fled, had agreed upon constitutional continuity and repairing the old republic instead of creating a new one.
I think the stakeholders — Gen Wakar-uz-Zaman, youth leaders like Mahfuz Alam and Nahid Islam, BNP leaders such as Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, and of course, Professor Yunus — made the right decision. I will return to this theme later in a more detailed post.
Meanwhile, it is two months that Hasina has fled. This is how the BBC broke the news.
Further reading
The triumphs and challenges of a generation in flux
Shamsas Mortuza, 24 Aug 2024
জাসদ ছাত্রলীগ থেকে যেভাবে জামায়াতের আমির হলেন ডা. শফিকুর রহমান
অন্তু মুজাহিদ
‘এটা গণঅভ্যুত্থানের সরকার, নির্বাচন করা মূল কাজ নয়’
Nahid Islam interviewed, 4 Sep 2024
Subail Bin Alam, 11 Sep 2024
Shakhawat Liton, 12 Seo 2024
Constitution needs rewriting to bar autocracy
Ali Riaz, 16 Sep 2024
US delegation visit: A new chapter in Bangladesh-US relations?
Shamsher M Chowdhury, 20 Sep 2024
Bangladesh Picks Up the Pieces After the Revolution
Ahmede Hussain, 23 Sep 2024
Writing in the time of autocracy
Md Mahmudul Hasan, 24 Sep 2024
Ikhtisad Ahmed, 28 Sep 2024
Bangladesh at crossroads as it pursues sweeping constitutional reform
Masood Farivar, 29 Sep 2024
মাহফুজ আলম interviewed, 4 Oct 2024