The youth's stance against vandalism and violence after the fall of Hasina shows that this is the movement of tomorrow.

It is time for us to be vigilant on all fronts, it’s so much harder to protect freedom than to achieve it.

Fear cannot ever lead to forgetting.

This victory has come at the cost of hundreds of lives of overwhelmingly young people, mostly students.

Attacks on minorities, lootings and lynching must stop

Whether the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s regime will eventually lead to a sufficiently robust democratic transition remains to be seen.

A joyous feeling overshadowed by waves of destruction, then revived by the hope of a new tomorrow.

We were celebrating the end of difficult times after all, but is this really over?

Comments from Shahbhag on August 5, 2024.

As long as the demands of the quota reform movement are not fully implemented, the protesters should remain alert.

Either we finally build a people’s republic or we condemn ourselves to repeat this “legacy of blood”.

Bangladesh has gone through a day of historical proportions, and the people on the streets seem to know this.

In the past, we have faced disappointment; we don't want to return to a state where politicians work for their own benefit.

The ill sensation you already feel is compounded by the reactions of the government

It is unacceptable that prisoners are being denied visitations from their families for over two weeks.

If the ruling party leaders don’t understand or pretend not to understand why students are not staying back at home (their campuses and dormitories remain shuttered), we are in much deeper trouble than one could imagine

Students who were shot dead and injured were simply exercising their democratic rights and posed no threat to anybody.

The ongoing protest by students and mass people demanding justice has surfaced in a profound democratic void in Bangladesh.

It is astounding how little a regime in power for 15 years understands the new form of student politics.

A narrative from both the government and some mass media outlets promotes a version of events that is far detached from the reality experienced