Articles | Vivekananda International Foundation

Bangladesh Elections: Growing Influence of ‘Hefazat’

The announcement on October 26^th at a party forum by Sheikh Hasina that the two foremost hard-line fundamentalist groups, viz. the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and the Hefazat-e-Islam(HeI), should be treated differently, was closely followed by t....

November 08, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Article , Bangladesh elections , Bangladesh Islamist hard-line party

Bangladesh Tariqat Federation Party Delegation’s visit to the VIF

VIF hosted an interaction with a three-member delegation of Bangladesh Tariqat Federation Party (BTF) and members of the Awami league led 14 party alliance. The discussions centred around the trend of a particular section of Bangladesh’s polity at....

October 24, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Interaction , Bangladesh Tariqat Federation , slamic religious identity , Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Bangladesh's quest for Sufi and Liberal Space

Dr Sreeradha Datta Commentary

Sufis are accepted as a moderate strain of Islam and often being described as the ‘Mystic Muslim’ too. Historian Richard Eaton has identified several strands and references to Sufis and Pirs during 16^th Century in the documented Musli....

September 10, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Commentary , Confronting Fanaticism , Sufi tradition in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: Demand for Elections under Caretaker Government

Dr Sreeradha Datta Article

Election times are quintessentially interesting, more so when some of the South Asian countries are involved. The element of unpredictability and host of other varied considerations surrounding any election in the region, makes these events an analys....

July 13, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Article , Bangladesh elections , Bangladesh caretaker government

Interaction with Mr. AKM Chowdhury of Bangladesh Nationalist Party

A Roundtable interaction with Mr. AKM Chowdhury, former minister of Commerce and a ranking leader of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was organised at Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) on June 8, 2018. Introducing the gue....

June 18, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Interaction , Bangladesh-India relations , AKM Chowdhury , Bangladesh Nationalist Party

Bangladesh: Quota Politics

Abhijit Chakravertty Commentary

What began as a small protest against quotas in government jobs in Dhaka University on 17 February 2018 soon spread to Chittagong, Khulna, Barisal, Mymensingh, Sylhet and some other parts of the country. It reached its peak on 8 April when students b....

May 18, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Commentary , Bangladesh elections , Bangladesh student agitation , Reservation in jobs

Commentary: Bangladesh - The Khaleda Zia Verdict and its Political Implications

Dr Madhumita Srivastava Balaji Commentary

In a judicial verdict of unprecedented political import, on February 8, 2018, a Special Court in Bangladesh sentenced the former Prime Minister and leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Begum Khaleda Zia, to a five-year jail term, in a case o....

March 01, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Commentary , Khaleda Zia’s jail term , Bangladesh elections , Zia Verdict

Round Table Discussion on India-Bangladesh Relations

Following up on Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s highly successful and ‘historic’ visit to India undertaken in the month of April, the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a Round Table Discussion (RTD) on 06 Jun 2017 w....

June 15, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Interaction , India-Bangladesh Relations , Gowher Rizvi

Interaction with Amb Tariq Karim, Bangladesh’s former Ambassador to India

Amb Tariq Karim, Bangladesh’s former High Commissioner to India and a Distinguished Fellow at the VIF, delivered a talk on some of the recent developments in Bangladesh on. He broadly dwelt upon the Islamic State (IS) factor in Bangladesh, the upco....

May 29, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Interaction , Islamic State , Indo-Bangladesh relations

The 1971 Genocide: Resurgent Bangladesh’s Quest for Justice, Pakistani Obduracy and India’s Role

Varun Nambiar

The Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina recently concluded four-day visit to New Delhi which marked a significant milestone in both the country’s relationship. Although still considered one of the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs), ....

May 22, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Bangladesh , East Pakistan , genocide , war-crimes