vehicles, their hoods adorned with Bangladesh’s national flag according to state protocol, idled late one recent evening in a ground-floor parking lot at the University of Dhaka.
Just a week before, they were hounded leaders of a youth-driven popular uprising against the country’s seemingly unbreakable prime minister.
Now, after her astonishing ouster, the two are cabinet ministers in the country’s interim government.
Inside the parking lot, young women and men milled around these unlikeliest of government officials, asking questions and posing for selfies.
On a pillar at the entrance, spray-painted graffiti declared the moment: “Revolution is not a dinner party.”Outside, the streets of this country of 170 million people are run by students.
Persons:
autocrat, Sheikh Hasina
Organizations:
University of Dhaka, selfies