Dhaka, Aug. 5 -- What does it take for a nation's youth to bring down a regime? Courage? Desperation? Or just the quiet, growing certainty that injustice has become unbearable? On August 5, 2024, Bangladesh gave the world a powerful answer.

What started as a student protest over an unfair civil service quota system exploded into a nationwide movement. Within days, the seemingly unshakable 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina collapsed under the pressure of a country that had had enough.

Students with nothing but handwritten placards, backpacks, and conviction filled the streets. Their anger, their songs, their slogans-it all echoed something deeper than jobs. They were rejecting fear, silence, and the slow erosion of dignity. Despite rubber bu...