Will Bangladesh's new dawn lead to genuine reform?

Onus is on authorities to clean up a political and economic mess

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Anti-government protesters celebrate in Dhaka on Aug. 5 after the fall of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. © AP

Zafar Sobhan is the editor of the Dhaka Tribune, a national daily newspaper in Bangladesh.

Vladimir Lenin famously said that there are decades when nothing happens, and then there are weeks when decades happen. The last month in Bangladesh has been a period that no one could have predicted, and at the same time, a month that promises to upend the political order for years to come.

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