Whatever’s happening in Dhaka today was bound to happen sooner or later; and it is definitely transformative in more ways than one. For example, I find myself being forced to reexamine my own views and beliefs about many things that I had taken for granted; the cracks and crevices between theory and praxis, I guess. As you rightly say, it is an ongoing process.

Any movement that is organic, comes with its chinks. They are initially a profound emotional response to a crisis, and then it, the movement, is forced to look at itself, now humongous, and recalibrate its visons, because it realises that it has eclipsed the initial short term agenda, and the expectations around it has grown, from the people and from within itself.

I guess that is what this movement is going through too right now. Everyone, especially from outside, armchair observers like me, expects it to be functioning with clockwork precision with all possible angles and tangents thought of; it’s too idealistic, and not really possible on-ground. Because, at the core of the movement is still an atavistic emotional response – that’s the heart of it, so to speak, and now the it needs the head to start participating, and together it can move on to bring about a few changes, never all, till the next ‘revolution’.

Thank you, once again.

While no one can predict the future, I think that the questions that the movement finds itself grappling with now are as important as they are fascinating (and vexing, too).

The struggle (and the discussions) continue!