Nazmul Sultan

Liberation and freedom are not quite the same thing. The former primarily registers a sense of negation; the state of being emancipated

Political events often fade away without leaving immediately palpable effects. Loud as their arrivals are, most political events tend to disappear much like a whimper.

POLITICAL violence is as old as the memory of our nationhood stretches back. Between the rise and fall of regimes, what appears again and again is the cycle of political violence.