
Selective Silence, Elite Caution, and the Cost of Invisibility When mobs torched the offices of media houses like Prothom Alo and The Daily Star in Dhaka, after the death of Osman Hadi, foreign embassies moved quickly. Statements were issued. Joint condemnations followed. Press freedom was invoked, rightly, as a core democratic value [1]. But when …

A Hindu man was lynched to death in the Baliya village under the jurisdiction of the Bhatol Police Outpost of Uttar Dinajpur district of West Bengal. The deceased man has been identified as Bikash Barman(49). He was a successful businessman in Hemtabad. The incident happened on the night of the 9th of February, Sunday. On that …