W hy “Inshallah Bangladesh”?’

We had not expected Sheikh Hasina to ponder over the title of the book we were writing.

It was on the day of Eid Al-Adha, popular as Bakrid, on Saturday, 7 June 2025, that our request to speak to her had been granted. The time was 6.13 p.m. IST. We dialled a private number at the exact time we had been asked to call, and after a few seconds, Hasina took the call herself. Show Full Article

It was hard to believe that on the other end of the line was Sheikh Hasina Wazed, Bangladesh’s prime minister till 5 August 2024, who still signed off as Bangladesh’s premier since she said she never resigned. The Mohammad Yunus administration was an unconstitutional, illegal one according to her.

A few hundred questions swarmed our minds, but ‘no interview’, we had been

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