Minorities under threat in Bangladesh

Harsha Kakar Last week, adviser for Information and Broadcasting of the interim government of Bangladesh, Nahid Islam, tweeted that Indian ruling elite and Hindutva forceswere ‘engaging in divisive politics and anti-Bangladesh rhetoric.’ He added that student leaders planned setting up a media cell to counter the Indian narrative that fundamentalism was growing in Bangladesh. The Sheikh Hasina government was toppled in August and Mohamad Yunus appointed as interim Head of State with an advisory body. Sheikh Hasina has since been … Continue reading Minorities under threat in Bangladesh