Feeling Voiceless, Feeling Unheard
This morning, I realized that I have lost my voice. I had some symptoms of the common cold the day before and noticed little cracks in my voice on the night, but the morning was when I realized that I couldn’t even make a sound. All I could do is a whisper at a high … Read more
Escribe: A Poem
Look! What a beautiful day it is outside. Sunshine came and shamed the blossoms then came rain to wash away his anger then came the moon to put them all to sleep then came the stars on the washed black sky. And what did you do? my dear senorita? What did you do senor? … Read more
What a Little Liberty Can Do: A Comparative Analysis of the Nicaraguan and Cuban Land Reform Programs
Abstract This paper discusses the land and agrarian reform programs in Cuba and Nicaragua and investigates their success in achieving their proposed goals. It argues that the Cuban Castro government went too far in breaking clientelist oligopolies and ended up erecting state monopolies as an end result which generated a food shortage in the domestic … Read more
Mourn for Me
When I die, my love Cry for me, not for me. When my body will be in decay and the early forces would come together To erase my signs My memories upon the world when would start to be gone. cry for me, baby, not for me. Cry, for I will be no more Cry, … Read more
The politics of tolerable bribes
Our administrative structure facilitates bribe culture and the political system has built up such that this system has never been reformed.
Democracy was never alive in Bangladesh
Article 70 of the Bangladeshi constitution has ensured that democracy was never operational in our republic from its very inception.
Do people really want a third party?
A political revolution is much more difficult than electing new officials. In the age of anti-establishment and populist politics, the hope of a third party has seen a resurgence across the globe. The palpable sentiment that the existing political parties are too elitist or corruption-ridden to represent the interests of the common people has prompted … Read more
Crawling
Sometimes, I feel like crawling out of me With the tiny little legs of my tired darkened soul. I feel like crawling out of me through the sockets of my eyes and my tiny mouth hole and free my tired soul. I feel like tearing through my skin and burning through my bones I wanna burn … Read more