New Delhi: Was the student uprising in Bangladesh last year orchestrated by external forces, including Pakistan’s ISI, with the help of jihadist outfits? What was the role of the US and CIA in unseating the Awami League government? Did the Bangladesh Army chief – Waker-uz-Zaman – hatch a conspiracy against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to serve American interests?

Inshallah Bangladesh, co-authored by journalists Deep Halder, Jaideep Mazumdar and Sahidul Hasan Khokon, takes a deep dive in answering these pertinent questions, and comes out with some startling revelations. It not just reconstructs a blow by blow account of the events that unfolded on August 5, 2024 — the day Hasina was forced to flee her country – but also revisits the past to trace the political, social, and ideological currents that created the groundwork for Bangladesh’s turmoil.

However, the best thing about the book is that it’s not judgmental and leaves readers to draw their own conclusions about the causes and actors involved behind the dramatic upheaval.

Inshallah Bangladesh spotlights on the effort of current political dispensation and its cronies to wipe out the imprint of Hasina’s illustrious father Sheikh Mujib – Bangabandhu – from collective consciousness of the people, mostly the youth. It also explores how and why apparently it is being........

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