Since August 2024, Alam must have realised that breaking the binary is easier said than done. Since the Yunus government took charge, Islamist forces and religiously-motivated mobs have raised their head and frequently resorted to undemocratic practices to suppress views they oppose–from targeting Sufi shrines in a series of attacks and demolishing statues and sculptures to opposing women’s football, baul-fakiri music events, secular festivals like Basanta Utsav (spring festival), kite-flying events, celebration of Valentine’s Day, public display of sanitary napkins, theatre festivals, vandalism in the book fair for selling books that they find objectionable, and so on.