Bangladesh After Hasina

A woman puts her vote into a ballot box during a mock polling exercise in Dhaka in November 2025. The election on 12 February will have only four percent women candidates in the race for 300 parliamentary seats.
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Navine Murshid
With women comprising only four percent of candidates in 2026 general election, Bangladesh’s post-Hasina transition is reproducing the patriarchy it promised to dismantle
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Insurgency in Balochistan, Assam chief minister targets Indian activist Harsh Mander, Southasia in the Epstein Files and more
Fact and fable in Anup Mathew Thomas’s photographic Kerala
By
Shubhra Dixit
In ‘Native ball’, the artist presents life in Kerala through a deliberate mix of fact and fabrication, combining photography and text to evoke a kind of magical realism
Himal Interviews: The plight of Bengali Muslims in Assam
By
The Editors
Aman Wadud talks to Harsh Mander about how Bengali Muslims in Assam are being disenfranchised and declared foreigners by India’s CAA-NRC laws
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Jamaat-e-Islami activists carrying the party’s election symbol at a rally in Dhaka in July 2025. The most debated development ahead of Bangladesh’s upcoming general election is the formation of an alliance between the Jamaat and the National Citizen Party (NCP), a youth-led political force born out of the July 2024 uprising.
By
Shakeel Anwar
An alliance with the student-led National Citizen Party gives the Jamaat-e-Islami a chance to rebrand ahead of Bangladesh’s first election since the July Revolution
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