Populism: Aspects and Remedies on August 1, 2022Populism is an errant political approach in which either conventional or a newly-debuted politician (populist) is brought to the political theatre by invisible forces through shortcuts. He presents himself as a messiah to resolve a country’s complex, long-standing and multi-faceted problems by giving simple solutions. Arousing chauvinistic nationalism; glorifying religious extremism; relying on authoritarianism and […]
Linguistic Identity: Challenges on July 19, 2022Bhasha Andolon was a language-based political movement of the Bengali community that started in 1948 with the principal objective of mainstreaming and promoting Bengali- the lingua franca of then East Pakistan, at a national level. Rather than conceding the democratic right of Bengalis, being the majority of the nascent religious-ideological state, the highly-bureaucratized West Pakistan […]
Educational Woes on July 9, 2022Education determines the fate of a nation. Quality education leads to prosperity, technological advancements, political maturity, economic dynamism, and adherence to constitutional norms by cultivating a civic sense in the citizenry of a polity, while education bereft of quality, innovative, and analytical abilities yields an unemployed bulk, which is politically unconscious and economically naïve. Unfortunately, […]