Syed Badrul Ahsan is a Bangladeshi journalist and political analyst. He is the author of biographies of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s founder, and Tajuddin Ahmad, the country’s wartime prime minister
From attacks on Hindus to attempts to rewrite history, the interim government is destroying Bangladesh’s secular identity
25 October 2024Bangladesh is on a course that militates against its heritage
20 September 2024As Islamists and BNP take centrestage, new questions arise about the forces behind the uprising
09 August 2024To restore order, the Bangladesh prime minister must first understand where and how her government erred in its response to the student protests
02 August 2024From the deaths of Yahya Khan and Zia to the tussle between Imran Khan and the military
28 August 2022Swinging political fortunes that defined the post-World War II era
10 January 2022As Bangladesh turns fifty, India learns to count on its friendly neighbour
03 December 2021Zia-ul-Haq to Edward Heath, a journalist relives his meetings with power people
19 October 2021From the long-serving Andrei Gromyko to the era-defining Henry Kissinger, it has been a job unlike any other
15 June 2021What if he had lived to get that second term in office?
29 May 2021Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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