Who's Really Running Bangladesh Now?

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Dear Reader,

Bangladesh has a new regime. Puppet? Or not? If yes, whose? Maybe someone who benefits from the chaos?

Our weekend edition puts forward the same question (or rather answers it) — "Cui Bono?" — who benefits?

Bangladesh had been simmering for months now with student protests. While the scrapping of quotas by the court appears to be the immediate cause, it is definitely not THE reason. Why? Simply because the former PM Sheikh Hasina, in fact, reinstated the quotas.

But that didn't calm the protests. The protestors and demands both morphed — from students to Islamists and from reinstating quotas to the exit of Sheikh Hasina respectively.

Amidst the political targeting of Awami League leaders and communal targeting of Hindu minorities, a new regime with Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as the care-taker has been propped up.

Read about it all and more in our weekend edition. Especially, the pieces that argue "Why India should allow the fleeing Bangladeshi Hindus to enter" and "How Bangladesh today mirrors the script that was written for India during the farmers' protest".

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Anmol N Jain