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Abdullah Yusuf

Abdullah Yusuf

The Next Chapter: Building Bangladesh’s Democratic Future

The Next Chapter: Building Bangladesh’s Democratic Future

In August 2024, Bangladesh’s streets erupted with a force beyond the control of any political party. Students, workers, and ordinary citizens dismantled Sheikh Hasina’s fifteen-year rule, built on electoral fraud, repression, and a web of loyalists embedded in the state. Lives were lost, families disappeared, and the scale

An Unquiet Silence: Kashmir and the Rituals of Forgetting

An Unquiet Silence: Kashmir and the Rituals of Forgetting

The valley bleeds again, and the script writes itself. A militant attack. A volley of accusations. Troops amass. Politicians thunder. Nuclear nightmares are summoned like ancient gods, wielded for effect. And once the show is over, the curtain falls, leaving the stage empty and the people forgotten. But Kashmir is

The Return of the Scaffold: Trump’s Deportation Theatre and the Politics of Spectacle

The Return of the Scaffold: Trump’s Deportation Theatre and the Politics of Spectacle

The scaffold has returned—not as an instrument of justice, but as a stage for vengeance. In Donald Trump’s America, the state no longer merely punishes; it performs. And the audience, whether horrified or thrilled, is part of the script. Michel Foucault warned us about this. In Discipline and