Anupam Debashis Roy
Anupam Debashis Roy is an independent writer and researcher. He can be reached at writeranupam1101@gmail.com. Anupam covers Bangladesh as a regular contributor to Himal Briefs.
Why the movement against Rampal plant in Bangladesh failed
Five years after a people’s movement to stop a power plant near the Sundarban, Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government has pushed the project through. Why did this movement fail where others in Bangladesh have succeeded?
Feb 24, 2023
Bangladesh’s BNP fights to make a political comeback
With massive anti-government rallies by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and their repression by the ruling Awami League-led government, battle lines are being drawn for the next general election
Feb 02, 2023
A tool for oppression
On the Digital Security Act curbing political dissent in Bangladesh.
Oct 25, 2022
Will Ganatantra Mancha rock the boat?
Will a new political alliance be the antidote to the Bangladeshi political impasse.
Jul 15, 2022
The election-commission conundrum
Is the newly formed Election Commission in Bangladesh up for the daunting task ahead?
Apr 28, 2022
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In Mizoram, a refugee crisis highlights Mizo tribal affinities and hostility
Shared Zo identity has Mizos extending hospitality to Chin and Kuki-Chin refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh. More remarkable is that Chakmas, mistreated by the Mizo majority in Mizoram, have welcomed Kuki-Chin refugees too
The political fallout of violence in Manipur, Bangladesh’s economic crisis, the crackdown on PTI supporters and more
May - Updates and analysis from around the region
In ‘Agra’, a grim portrait of the repressed Indian man
Director Kanu Behl’s Hindi feature film examines the sexual obsession and frustration of men, mental health and the transactional nature of human relationships in a patriarchal society where space is in short supply
When neoliberalism came to the Indian farm
With a focus on agricultural policy since the 1990s, 'Distress in the Fields' demonstrates how neoliberal interventions sowed the seeds of the crisis faced by farmers today
