Where Good Voices Must Go Bad
Dhaka Courier|April 13, 2018

Where Good Voices Must Go Bad

Shayan S. Khan
Where Good Voices Must Go Bad

It is questionable to what extent the original agitators for quota reform will have been redeemed, by revelations that their movement had been hijacked by so-called outsiders, who then led a faction of them astray and onto a path of chaos, that apparently descended most frighteningly on the residence of the vice-chancellor of Dhaka University this week (April 8). The question that faced the nation was whether the inherent sense informing their demands had to be compromised by how they went about demanding them?

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