Politics

Kharg Island and the Fragility of the World’s Energy Order

Modern warfare increasingly targets economic infrastructure rather than traditional military formations. Oil terminals, pipelines, power plants and ports have become instruments of pressure in conflicts across the world. The objective is not merely to defeat an enemy army but to weaken an adversary’s economic foundations.

Democracy Without Teeth

Ensuring accountability is the key, and a state cannot design a system, cannot create an institutional design where the only protection is a party's or an individual’s goodwill. A state’s guiding operational principle cannot be to be ruled by the angels.

Myanmar’s Civil War and the Expanding Shadow of Global Rivalry

Myanmar stands as a stark reminder that in today’s world, geography is destiny only until strategy intervenes

Behind Sufism and Politics

A class of divinely chosen people has the power, endowed by God, to read the esoteric meaning of the Quran and the capacity to guide their own path and that of their followers to connect to the ultimate reality through a mystic journey, which is the foundation of the doctrine of Sufism.

From the Strait of Hormuz to Dhaka: Oil, Remittances and Geopolitical Aftershocks

International law and global stability are not distant abstractions for Bangladesh but essential pillars of economic resilience and national planning.

The Strategic Risks of the Iran Conflict

For the first time in decades, the United States risks strategic isolation within its own alliance network. If the United States is perceived as an unreliable negotiating partner, future mediation efforts -- both in the Middle East and beyond -- may suffer.

A Relationship Deeper Than Headlines Suggest

Unlike many bilateral relationships in South Asia that are defined by rivalry, the India-Bangladesh relationship began with cooperation and solidarity. That legacy continues to shape perceptions and policy even today.

Call the War by its Name

Since 1945, and specifically since colonizing Palestine with Israel and taking the baton of Empire from Britain, the US has been waging imperial domination around the globe, with the safety of claiming the distinction of not being an overt colonial force.

The Iran Trap: Why War Could Become America’s Costliest Gamble

Instead of a single battlefield, the United States could find itself managing simultaneous crises across several countries, dramatically increasing the complexity and cost of military operations. Recent history offers sobering lessons about the limits of military power in such environments.

Memory, Myth, and the Performance of War in Bangladesh’s Media

Bangladesh deserves better than slogan-driven geopolitics. It deserves journalism that can critique American power without romanticizing Iranian power, question Israeli policy without indulging conspiracy, and evaluate Russia, China, or Pakistan without reflexive alignment.

Nepal Election: Youth Learn a Lesson of a General Nature

This isn’t just a normal switch in power. It’s a clear rejection of two parties that spent decades swapping control, making deals, and getting caught up in scandals while the country struggled.

Trusting the Elders: How a Youth Party Got Talked Out of Power

In the end, that is what happened to NCP. It let itself be persuaded that the bravest thing a youth party can do in its founding election is to make itself small.

The Global South Watches America's Dystopian Test Run

We have a choice: To be passive consumers of the spectacle, or active collaborators in writing a different ending -- one based not on fear and division, but on the unbreakable, transnational solidarity of those who believe, against all odds.

What if the Iran War is not What it Seems?

What we may be witnessing is not the eruption of uncontrolled conflict -- but a controlled application of force designed to close a 30-year nuclear standoff. History will not judge this moment by the explosions. It will judge it by what follows them.

The Real Test for Bangladesh’s New Government

Political criticism will persist, that is the nature of democracy. But a government that governs through law, accountability, and judicial independence will find that criticism becomes manageable, trust becomes durable, and stability becomes achievable.

A Majority Government without a Majority Mandate

The purpose of this article is not to belittle BNP’s victory in the 2026 election. The purpose is to peel the layers of statistics to get to the ground truth and what we can infer from them with reasonable confidence.