Srilanka, Feb. 11 -- When the repressive 15-year regime of Sheikh Hasina was overthrown by a two-month-long violent mass movement led by university students, the expectation was that sanity, peace and the Rule of Law would prevail in Bangladesh.
But that faith has eroded or is fast eroding both among law-abiding Bangladeshis and their well-wishers across the world.
What marks Bangladesh today, six months after the "revolution against fascism", is chaos punctuated by insane vandalism. All symbols of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh, have been burnt down or vandalised. His house turned into a museum in Dhaka, which had witnessed key developments in Bangladesh's struggle for independence from Pakistan and the subseq...