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As the distance grows from their freedom movements, both India and Bangladesh are rehabilitating what it means to be anti-colonial
The present regime in Bangladesh wants to separate the country from its history of freedom struggle against Pakistan. It has removed the portrait of its founder President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from the currency notesIt is also seeking new friendship with Pakistan. The people of Bangladesh fought two freedom struggles in the 20th century: first to free themselves from the British, and then from Pakistan. This is a place that won independence twice within 24 years: in 1947 and 1971.
The thoughts of self and oppression change from time to time. Bangladesh, now 55 years away from its second freedom struggle, thinks that Islam is a more powerful bond for people than the language, which then separated it from West Pakistan. In contrast, the nation’s icography is being changed.
The collective memory of India of freedom struggle is also going through a change. India’s most powerful political strength today looks at Hindutva, the freedom won as a partial victory in 1947. The more expander version of anti -colonialism sees Islam and Western modernity as a foreign influence on the nation. It is trying to eliminate those effects from public consciousness through various interventions. This new dicolonization drive is directed to: courses, laws, administrative structures, and more. The enthusiasm of a newly crossed milestone for a nation lasts for a finite time and its dull sweetness fade with the passage of generations.
The new wave of Islamic fundamentalism in Bangladesh creates new security threats for India. The Sheikh Hasina government in Dhaka was sensitive to India’s security concerns, and it was one of the reasons for Islamic enmity towards it.
Uttar Pradesh and Main: Sister States?
What is common between Main and Uttar Pradesh in the states of the United States and India respectively. In fact, nothing, you can think, but these states have recently stopped or disqualified MPs from assemblies set as unacceptable speech. Free speech and hatred speech remain a disgusting confusion in liberal politics around the world. Men Representative Laurel Libbi has been barred from voting in the House. Republican posted a picture of a transgender student, who won the girls’ pole vault competition after finishing fifth in the category of boys two years ago. She stands from her position and is demanding judicial intervention to restore her voting.
In UP, Abbas Ansari, an MLA from a party who is affiliated to the ruling BJP, has been expelled from the Legislative Assembly. Clove in case of indecent language From 2022. He allegedly threatened the local administration during the Uttar Pradesh elections.
Evaluation of war and diplomacy
Talking of speech, there is a new position in making information, which has been honored as ‘narrative building’ in strategic comments these days. In love and war, all are fair, including lies. The misinformation has acquired such a halo. Democracy is being threatened for everyone in the mouth, post -democracy politics, recently, these days, the strategists from all over the world are talking about the imperative of winning ‘Katha War’ and poisoning the enemies! War is the same as a fake computer game, as revealed by a recent attack on Ukraine’s Russian goals. It is only appropriate that there is also a voiceover of a suitable story to go with it.
Many philosophers and thinkers have wondered if we are living in a simulation. In the emerging scenario of virtual reality and AI, these questions are being resurrected. There are physicists who argue that both a table made of wood and a table in VR are equally real, or simply simulate. If we are already living in a fake universe, we are making a simulation within a simulation as a strategy! If it is believed more matters, the reality as we had so far thought about it will stop to be relevant.
Published – June 06, 2025 09:57 pm IST