{"id":54813,"date":"2026-02-09T04:13:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=54813"},"modified":"2026-02-09T04:13:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:13:51","slug":"is-bangladeshs-youth-turning-against-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=54813","title":{"rendered":"Is Bangladesh’s youth turning against India?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The walls of Dhaka University are screaming again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graffiti – angry, witty, sometimes poetic – sprawls across walls and corridors, echoing the Gen Z-led July 2024 uprising<\/a> that toppled Sheikh Hasina after 15 years in power. Once Bangladesh’s pro-democracy icon, critics say she had grown increasingly autocratic. After her resignation, she fled to India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students gather in knots, debating politics. On an unkempt lawn, red lanterns sway above a modest Chinese New Year celebration – a small but telling detail in a country where Beijing and Delhi are both vying hard for influence. For many here, the election scheduled for 12 February will be their first genuine encounter with the ballot box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobel peace-prize laureate Muhammad Yunus took charge days after Sheikh Hasina’s fall. Hasina now lives in exile in Delhi, which has refused to return her to face a death sentence imposed in absentia<\/a> over the brutal security crackdown in 2024 – violence in which the UN says around 1,400 people were killed, mostly by security forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her Awami League – the country’s oldest party, which commanded some 30% of the popular vote – has been barred from contesting. Analysts say the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is now moving to occupy the liberal-centrist space it has vacated. The main Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, has joined forces with a party born out of the student uprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the slogans on the campus – and beyond – are not only about democracy at home. It increasingly points across the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Dhaka, not Delhi” is splashed on walls – and stitched onto saris, a traditional dress for women in South Asia. Among the young, “hegemony” has slipped into everyday speech, shorthand for India’s long shadow over Bangladesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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