On reforming our imported institutions and governance

The July uprising of 2024 has yielded for Bangladesh’s long beleaguered people a “second liberation” from continuous oppression and tyrannical rule.

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Just as 54 years ago, people decided to take to the streets to wrest liberation from an oppressively neo-colonial rule, this time round, in the “36 days of July,” people heeded the call by valiant students to challenge a government that they looked upon as tyrannical and fascist and overthrew it, demanding a complete revamping of our state institutions to ensure that no abuse of authority could ever revisit their future. Notably, and not surprisingly, one of the full-throated slogans of the students this time, “Ae baarer shongram, muktir shongram,” was a reprise from the Liberation War in 1971.