Author - Mikail Hossain

‘Solomon’s Paradox’ thrives where memory is louder than responsibility

Bangladesh’s politics today embodies Solomon’s Paradox: wisdom when reflecting on the dead of 1971, blindness when confronted with the killings ...

23 Aug 2025 12:34 PM

Bangladesh’s democratic discourse is suffocating in a binary trap

An unflinching essay on Bangladesh’s “Shoja Politics”: how denial of mass violence by Awami League and Jamaat, media patronage, and ...

21 Aug 2025 11:46 AM

‘New boys in town’ are disrupting Bangladesh’s criminal equilibrium

Mikail Hossain examines Bangladesh’s entrenched corruption, where crime operates as a closed syndicate, warning that a new wave of middle-class ...

14 Aug 2025 13:48 PM

Netra News’s Yunus critique reads like an empty lecture

Mikail Hossain critiques a Netra News opinion piece on Muhammad Yunus for lacking evidence and analytical rigor, warning that slogan-driven ...

09 Aug 2025 12:03 PM

Bangladesh has endured an era of collapse..will it begin an era of creation?

As Bangladesh reels from institutional collapse and ideological exhaustion, this essay explores the existential crisis engulfing its political and moral ...

07 Aug 2025 10:56 AM

In Bangladesh, power is a racket disguised as governance

A searing critique of Bangladesh’s broken birth registration system reveals a deeper truth: state dysfunction isn’t a bug, it’s the ...

01 Aug 2025 16:28 PM

In a state of echoes, leadership is driven by the loudest noises..

In a scathing critique of Bangladesh’s interim government, Mikail Hossain draws a powerful parallel to Nasreddin Hodja’s paradoxical wisdom to ...

25 Jul 2025 17:01 PM

A ‘perceived’ culture of fear has rewired Bangladesh elite’s moral compass

A gripping reflection on fear, trauma, and dehumanization in Bangladesh’s politics—how both elites and reactionaries weaponize panic, undermining democracy and ...

11 Jul 2025 15:22 PM

Has reform become just a punchline, or there are still chances to salvage it?

Reform in Bangladesh is a farce without justice. As looters walk free, the nation faces a reckoning: rebuild from the ...

18 Jun 2025 13:59 PM

Bangladesh manages ultra-right extremism by treating it like ‘self-limiting disease’...and that’s a risky gamble

An incisive analysis of how Bangladesh’s far-right extremism mimics self-limiting diseases—flaring, collapsing, and being exploited by the state. Mikail Hossain ...

11 Jun 2025 12:19 PM