KC Writes

1 August 2025 Bangladesh now hosts more than one million Rohingya refugees, the world’s largest stateless population. At the same time, two powerful neighbours—China and India—are racing to connect the Bay of Bengal to their heartlands through the very region that produced this crisis. The China–Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) is carving a route from the Kyaukphyu deep-sea port in Rakhine to Yunnan, while India is building the Kaladan Multi-Modal Project and expanding the BBIN corridor to reach its Northeast. These twin developments turn the Rohingya tragedy into both a national burden and a once-in-a-generation opportunity. Past Diplomacy: Applause Without Leverage In 2017, as refugees poured across the Naf River, political allies of the then-government floated the idea that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for sheltering the Rohingya. The image of a “Mother of Humanity” captured headlines, but the policy that followed produced little leverage: a ...

 21 September 2025 The Children of the Revolution We are all proud of the young student leaders who ignited the July Revolution -- brave,  articulate, and unafraid to stand up when the nation’s conscience had gone quiet. Many of  them now form the backbone of the newly minted National Citizens Party (NCP), and they  deserve credit for reawakening civic energy that had long been smothered by fear and  fatigue.  But pride need not blind judgment. Because what we did not anticipate -- and  what many of us now struggle to digest -- is that these same revolutionaries would mutate  into yet another political party, chasing power through the same machinery they once  denounced.  We thought they would evolve into an activist, non-partisan movement -- a  civic conscience that would challenge corruption and authoritarianism across the  spectrum, not compete for parliamentary seats. We imagined an organization of principle,  not anot...