India’s post-Nehruvian capitalist boom destroyed the intellectual centre of Bangladesh’s Left, leaving its socialist politics stranded between historical memory and a crony economy
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The author is a Dhaka-based journalist who has reported on Bangladesh and South Asia for international outlets such as Al Jazeera, Asia Times and Nikkei Asia
Unlike treaties, textiles ask for no formal alignment. They create intimacy without negotiation.
The article argues that Rabindranath Tagore became politically weaponised in Bangladesh under the Awami League government led by Sheikh Hasina. Tagore’s poetry, music and cultural symbolism were projected as markers of “proper” Bengali identity and secular nationalism, turning admiration for him into an ideological test
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