Recently, I spent more than three months in Bangladesh. At the risk of sounding boastful, I had in mind the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville’s travelogue Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes in 1835 and 1840) as a prop to observe and understand the country.
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Bangladesh at a crossroads?
Occupy Narayanganj: Can the mayor-elect be the harbinger of good urban governance?
There is an irresistible symmetry between the Occupy Wall Street protesters and the people of Narayanganj. Both have been underdogs in their respective political domains.
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