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My Book launch event at the The Urban Institute Mar 12th, 4 pm! City of Desire Register: In person or online: sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institut…

"It is often asserted that human rights discourse and practice principally originated following the Second World War, or as late as the 1970s, and that human rights claims are inherently Western and liberal. None of these assertions are true." cardozociclr.com/_files/ugd/bc0…

Snippets from my talk “Bangladesh: Constitutional Experiments in an Aid Lab” (Title h/t: Naomi Hossain) Grateful to my hosts Yale South Asian Studies Council and Prof Rohit De Rohit for the invite.

This is shocking. On Monday, in an amendment to the Anti-Terrorism Act, the #Bangladesh government set out what “banning all the activities” of the Awami League meant. From now on “the publication of any press statement on behalf of or in support” of the Awami League is

It didn’t take long at all to descend into the very thing they were advocating against

Women’s March in Dhaka today

This guy is a known war criminal. He is now out. We can blame the court all we want now but the Hasina regime did this by tainting the war crimes trials to begin with during her tenure. I’m yet to read the judgment but if I had to hazard a guess, he’s likely getting out because

Something different to what I usually write about. Review of the film Jaya and Sharmin published in the Daily Star. Produced by Jaya Ahsan. thedailystar.net/ds/unheard-voi…

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with Gastón Nievas Offidani [1/9] 🔗 wid.world/news-article/u…

My piece in Prothom Alo on political parties in Bangladesh. The English version will also be up later this week. রাষ্ট্র ও রাজনীতিতে জনগণের হিস্যা কোথায় | প্রথম আলো prothomalo.com/opinion/column…

English version of my op ed in Prothom Alo on political parties in Bangladesh. What are political parties for? Who speaks for the people? | Prothom Alo en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-ed/…

I’m thrilled to be serving on the editorial board of Constitutional Studies with so many wonderful scholars. Constitutional Studies prioritises engagement with scholars from diverse geographic and topical research areas on constitutional democracy, formal and informal

What the research degree has taught me: 1. You’re contributing to a field of knowledge (whatever that may be). 2. The task is both collective and intergenerational and not about who came first or who discovered something or gets credit for it. So, be humble. Your work is a