Suhaira Maysan

If Bangladesh is to emerge from this transition with institutions genuinely stronger than those it inherited, power must become harder to capture, harder to personalize and easier to restrain. Photo Credit: Shutterstock A house can be repainted. Its walls can be scrubbed, its portraits removed and its furniture replaced. The people who once occupied its rooms can leave, and before long, it may look as though an entirely different family has moved in. But appearances are deceptive.