New Book Alert: On June 7, 2025, we spoke to Sheikh Hasina over the phone. Almost a year had passed since she fled Bangladesh and came to India and we wanted to know what she felt about Bangladesh without her in power. Hasina told us what she thought about the July Revolution and Bangladesh under Muhammad Yunus. We also spoke to her ministers, members of her security detail, and officers in Bangladeshi military intelligence still loyal to her who helped @joyincal09 recreate the scenes inside Haina's official residence on the day she left. We also spoke to Hasina's political opponents who told us why she had it coming for a long time. But our book is not about Hasina, her mistakes or her political future. 'Inshallah Bangladesh' is about the extraordinary events of 2024 that changed the lives of Bangladesh's ordinary people. Like my co-author @SahidulKhokonbd who became an anti-national for writing against radical Islam and had to run for his life, and the 266 other journalists like him implicated in various cases. It is about young women who are afraid of playing football, and Sufis who watch helplessly as their mazars are pulled down, and Hindus who are trying to get used to hearing open calls of genocide. And young military officers trying to make sense of a General's betrayal. The book is also about past fissures shaping present politics. About stories that are not published. Like a dystopian novel about Sheikh Mujib finding currency after Hasina's fall. About the call for a Hindu homeland that is as old as the call for Bangladesh. About atheist bloggers once forced out of Bangladesh returning to save Bangladesh's soul. If the July Revolution promised a New Bangladesh, our book examines why the students' party that emerged from it is already so unpopular. Inshallah Bangladesh is the story of an unfinished revolution that did not begin in 2024. @swatichopra1 @juggernautbooks Here's the preorder link: tinyurl.com/3ebxb947

It was wonderful being at @PondyLitFest y’day. Had an absorbing discussion on “Decoding the contemporary Dimaagi Naxal” along with @ARanganathan72 ji and why they pose a continued security challenge for the country, brilliantly moderated by @deepscribble . This was followed by Puducherry unveiling of #NaxalTerrorVanquished by @BJP4India National Org Secretary Shri @blsanthosh ji. The animated discussion on Naxalism was followed by one of the finest and most profound interactions on #RSSat100 with @blsanthosh ji at his articulate best. The 90 minute session covered a wide gamut of issues - from Bengal to role of women in RSS to RSS’s roadmap over the next 20 years. Always enriching and enlightening to hear an interaction as honest and nuanced as this. Sharp, diverse, well researched questions by @deepscribble !

The final session of #PLF2026 We have B L Santosh ji (@blsanthosh), National Secretary (ORG) BJP, in conversation with @deepscribble on “The RSS at 100.” Tune in to explore a century of the RSS and its journey through India’s changing times. Live Link: piped.video/live/VwLfVg6wjjk…

100 years of RSS, targets for the next 25 years, understanding the mood of the Gen Z after protests, Bengal before and after elections. These and a whole lot more in the last seesion of the @PondyLitFest with @blsanthosh. Thank you @AloPal.

Some moments from my address at the @PondyLitFest It was truly special to see distinguished personalities like @ARanganathan72 , @deepscribble da, @PrasenjitKBasu and Joydeep Sen da among the audience. Their presence made the moment even more memorable. 🙏 @AloPal

Tune in, to @deepscribble converse with @nandinisgTOI about his newest book "Inshallah Bangladesh: The Story of an Unfinished revolution". A session you wouldn't want to miss Live link: piped.video/live/VwLfVg6wjjk…

Join Joydeep Sen and @deepscribble for a conversation on "Justice for the Victims of TMC Violence, Murder and Rape." Tune in for this important discussion on justice, accountability and the victims of political violence. Live link: piped.video/live/AI-84l9mkY8…

More than 5 decades after Bangladesh’s Liberation War and two years after the July 2024 uprising that ended Sheikh Hasina’s rule, many Bihari Muslims, branded as Pakistanis, remain on the margins of Bangladeshi society. Author & ThePrint Columnist @deepscribble Deep Halder shares insights from a recent Kolkata event on forgotten Bihari Muslims in Bangladesh Watch: piped.video/Vl9ToZmLegA

How did the student movement start? How did it spread to different parts of the country? What happened during the days of the movement? What was the experience of the common people like? How successful was the dream of building a new Bangladesh? Prominent journalist and writer @deepscribble discussed the July Movement a couple of years later. piped.video/ZUGaTg1DGN8?si=gUFK…

@deepscribble & Lawyer Joydeep Sen on BJP and West Bengal

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School buddy and batchmate @deepscribble’s Blood Island recovers the voices of Namasudra survivors the official record reduced to single-digit casualties. It remains the essential English-language oral history of an event the state tried to erase.

Hasina isn’t the real reason behind Tarique Rahman’s cancelled India tour. Bangladesh’s crises, inflation, law-and-order problems & domestic political pressure are. Watch ThePrint columnist and author Deep Halder @deepscribble explain:  piped.video/uyv1yYWNPJU

Life is too short to read bad writing

This most beautiful photograph.

23 suspected militants arrested from a Dhaka mosque. Not the hinterland. In capital Dhaka. Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed has his job cut out.

IIT Bombay is following the precedent set by the Union government.

Kolkata event discusses forgotten Bihari Muslims in Bangladesh. ‘1971 stigma remains’ Deep Halder @deepscribble reports #ThePrintAroundTown theprint.in/feature/around-t…

1971: East Pakistan (Bangladesh liberation War): One high U.S. official said, “It is most incredible, calculated thing since the days of Nazis in Poland”. Christopher Hitchins written in The Trial of Henry Kissinger says, “At least ten thousand civilians were butchered in the first three days. The eventual civilian death toll has never been placed at less than held a million and has been put as high as three million. Since almost all Hindu citizens were at risk by definition from Pakistan military chuvanism… a vast movement of millions of refugees perhaps as many as ten million –began to cross Indian frontiers.” (Christopher Hitchins, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Verso, New York”).

Stoned! The music of the Rolling Stones covered...by, among others, Merry Clayton, Joe Pass, Louis Cato, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez & Robby Ameen Feat. Rubén Blades, Laibach and more. mixcloud.com/tony-todd/stone…

Deepanshu Shokeen’s victory as DUSU VP, fighting as a rebel after being denied a ticket by NSUI to accommodate a nepo baby is the story of the day! @DeepanshuS_001