symposium participants

  • THE PROBLEM
    Posed by Peter Ronald deSouza, Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla

  • THE PROMISE OF CHANGE
    Kamal Hossain, jurist; former Law Minister (1971-72) and Foreign Affairs Minister (1972-75) in the Government of Bangladesh, Dhaka

  • ROUTINE SWING OR TECTONIC SHIFT?
    Peter Ronald deSouza, Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla

  • ELECTORAL REFORM AND DEMOCRATIC OUTCOMES
    Najia Hashemee, Programme Specialist, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Dhaka

  • ENGAGING WITH ISLAMIST PARTIES
    Sufia M. Uddin, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Connecticut College, New London, CT

  • MEDIA AND POLITICS
    Asif Saleh, founder, Drishtipat Writers Collective and a blogger for Unheard Voice and Guardian, Dhaka; and Mridul Chowdhury, co-founder, Jagoree, and Research Affiliate, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School, Dhaka

  • YOUTH: STRUGGLES, ASPIRATIONS, POSSIBILITIES
    Bidhan Chandra Pal and Rubayat Khan, work for Jagoree, a nonpartisan platform for engaging youth with the political and policymaking process, Dhaka

#603 
November 2009

BANGLADESH TURNAROUND
a symposium on the country's 
return to democracy   


cover design by Akila Seshasayee

 

 

 

 

  • EXPLAINING THE 'DEVELOPMENT SURPRISE' 
    Wahiduddin Mahmud, Professor of Economics, University of Dhaka; Sadiq Ahmed, Senior Manager, South Asia Region, The World Bank; and Sandeep Mahajan, Senior Country Economist for Bangladesh, The World Bank

  • THROUGH A PAKISTANI LENS
    Ahmed Bilal Mehboob, Executive Director, Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development (PILDAT), Islamabad

  • THE GEOPOLITICS OF BANGLADESH
    Veena Sikri, former Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh; currently Professor, Ford Foundation Chair, Bangladesh Studies Programme, Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi

  • COMMENT
    Received from Faustina Pereira, Director, Human Rights and Legal Services, BRAC, Dhaka

  • BOOKS
    Reviewed by Magnus Lundgren, Hameed Haroon and Meera Visvanathan

  • COMMUNICATION
    Received from Suranjan Pal, DRDO, and Gurmeet Kanwal, Delhi

  • IN MEMORIAM
    K. Balagopal (1952-2009)

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