
Jayanta Roy Chowdhury | Bangladesh Sees Big Islamist Shift A Year After Revolt
Published on: July 30, 2025, 10:39 p.m. | Source: Deccan Chronicle
Nearly one year after a student revolt forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India, Bangladesh finds itself at a precarious crossroads: where the call for democratic reform has given way to a nation increasingly dominated by Islamist forces -- as mob justice, ideological coercion and brutal silencing of dissenters has become the “new normal” in what was Asia’s most argumentative nation.