Joseph Allchin

Writer & journalist. Author of Many Rivers, One Sea

[Joseph Allchin @J_Allchin]

Nice to see my book, Many Rivers One Sea, about fundamentalism and politics in #Bangladesh reviewed in @IndiaToday ..."a truly compelling read"..."vitally important book" https://t.co/OE6knY9tXC

[Joseph Allchin @J_Allchin]

@husainhaqqani in recent student elections, Jamaat's student wing, Shibir did very well/won in female dormitories

[Chietigj Bajpaee @Chietigj]

Ahead of next week's election in #Bangladesh, join me on Tuesday (10 February) for a webinar with @JonFDanilowicz (former US Deputy Chief of Mission in Dhaka), Shehreen Amin Bhuiyan (Assistant Professor at the University of Dhaka) and @J_Allchin (former Bangladesh correspondent at the Financial Times). Register here:

[Chatham House Asia-Pacific @CHAsiaPacific]

Bangladesh 2.0: Can the 2026 elections provide democratic renewal? 🇧🇩

Join our expert panel:
🔹@J_Allchin
🔹@JonFDanilowicz
🔹Chair: @Chietigj

📅 10 Feb
⏰ 13:00-14:00 GMT
📍 Online

Register here👇
https://t.co/QMIBZJFWmz

[Chris Blackburn @CJBdingo25]

The Colonel who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy by @saliltripathi

The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass

Many Rivers, One Sea: Bangladesh and the Challenge of Islamist Militancy by @J_Allchin

Birds of Bangladesh by Richard Grimmett

[Joseph Allchin @J_Allchin]

@mulletrider Him or Sancho wouldn't be bad shouts and would be relieving the excesses of a different rival for a change!

[Joseph Allchin @J_Allchin]

@iamhbozz @FabrizioRomano we are all pro-Bono now

[Adam Pitman @ar_pitman]

Great writing from @cyrus_naji, who reviewed India’s Near East by @PaliwalAvi for @Himalistan, re-upping the excellent Many Rivers, One Sea by @J_Allchin in the process. https://t.co/v6og9UGeqP

[Joseph Allchin @J_Allchin]

@Mendelpol Initial economic protests morphed, esp after police brutality, autocratic regime kept grip while living standards were rising, pandemic + energy price rises caused economic reversals. Current protests merged with existential culture war causing unstoppable conflagration

[Joseph Allchin @J_Allchin]

Bangladesh student protests remarkably appear to have triumphed in forcing Hasina to flee and/or resign "safer place" possibly India, next pol developments will be interesting in a political space Hasina + party have dominated for so long

[David Bergman @TheDavidBergman]

Head of @AFP Dhaka Bureau.

[Joseph Allchin @J_Allchin]

@drsportsmedia that and 30k a week

[Naomi Hossain @nomhossain]

Short 🧵on the Bangladesh student protests

There is limited evidence in this vid that the Bangladesh students' protests were in fact hijacked by opposition party groups.

However, I study protests globally, not just in 🇧🇩, & we know from protest movements elsewhere that: 1/

[Michael Kugelman @MichaelKugelman]

Bangladesh is hosting Russian FM Lavrov right before the G20 summit, and French President Macron right after it.
Bangladesh’s growing geopolitical significance, as a balancer and a battleground for multiple great power competitions, is hard to miss these days.

[Joseph Allchin @J_Allchin]

@simonmontefiore @DalrympleWill @tweeter_anita @EmpirePodUK really enjoyed the Ivan episode, esp on origins/nature of Russian imperialism

[Joseph Allchin @J_Allchin]

@mulletrider get as much out of Tomiyasu before his inevitable injury

[Joseph Allchin @J_Allchin]

@mulletrider plausible!

[Phil Robertson @Reaproy]

The Country That Bombs Its Own People. Hugely compelling report by @nytimes on the atrocities the #Myanmar military regime is inflicting on the Burmese people. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar https://t.co/NYON3maFbC

[Charles Whiteley @CWhiteleyEU]

The stark reality of the cut in food rations in the Rohingya camps. Due to inadequate funding the monthly allowance has fallen from 12 to 10 to 8 dollars per person - with a progressive reduction in food. The international community must do more to support 🇧🇩and the Rohingya

[Joseph Allchin @J_Allchin]

@SnellArthur I look forward to the Tories compensating everyone else for Brexit

[Joseph Allchin @J_Allchin]

Maya Jassanoff is always worth reading - but particularly here/on this: "as the president of one stumbling democracy joins hands with a prime minister bent on hobbling another, the project of global freedom seems one step closer to collapse..."