I’m not here to take sides, but I want to ask: Why are we so quick to question the students when reports started coming in of some crossing the line?

Bangladesh has recently witnessed extraordinary times. In July 2024, what began as a student movement demanding a restructuring of the government job quota system escalated into a countrywide mass movement for equality, justice, and democratic freedom.

Identity and ideology politics also played an essential role in brewing the Bangla Bashanta.

This victory has come at the cost of hundreds of lives of overwhelmingly young people, mostly students.

As long as the demands of the quota reform movement are not fully implemented, the protesters should remain alert.

Bangladesh has gone through a day of historical proportions, and the people on the streets seem to know this.