Author - Mikail Hossain

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

Breaking the binary narrative of Awami League isn’t enough…we must understand it first to avoid becoming a victim of it

Bangladesh's binary political narrative—crafted and controlled by the Awami League—is unraveling under the weight of its own contradictions. Writer Mikail ...

09 Jun 2025 12:32 PM

Bangladesh is not for the beginners..nor for the experienced as well

A critical analysis of Bangladesh's ongoing political crisis, exposing the collapse of state institutions under Awami League rule, the opportunistic ...

06 Jun 2025 12:45 PM

Where lies the pitfalls of Yunus’s reform agenda

A scathing critique of Bangladesh's institutional reform myth—why state machinery metaphors fail, and how impunity erodes public trust and justice. ...

01 Jun 2025 15:53 PM

Accountability to the electorate is the soil and without it, no reform can’t take root

In Bangladesh, quiet resistance within state institutions is undermining the interim government's reform agenda. Mikail Hossain explores the deeper crisis ...

26 May 2025 11:33 AM

In a turbulent Bangladesh, Yunus still remains the lone stabilizing force…. here’s why

In a time of deep political instability, Mikail Hossain explores why Professor Muhammad Yunus remains Bangladesh’s last bridge to international ...

25 May 2025 11:17 AM