⚔️ How the Violence of Partition Forged National Identity in South Asia

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How the Violence of Partition Forged National Identity in South Asia

I was seven years old during the 1971 war between India and Pakistan. My first political memory is of this short war, which lasted barely two weeks from 3 to 16 December. The blacked-out windows of…

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✊ Opinion: Bangladesh's civil service is plagued by corruption—the country can't get back on its feet without major reform

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Opinion: Bangladesh's civil service is plagued by corruption—the country can't get back on its feet without major reform

A quota system to reserve jobs in the civil service for specific groups, including descendants of war veterans, became the Achilles heel of Bangladesh's authoritarian prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.

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