The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
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A podcast about books, money and power
Two friends. One book. Never the same read.
A Californian capitalist and a Bangladeshi bureaucrat argue their way through economics, history and politics, one book at a time. In Bangla, with English notes.
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EP36: বিশ্ব রাজনীতি এত ভয়ংকর কেন? | The Tragedy of Great Power Politics | P01
আজকের episode এ আমরা শুরু করছি John J. Mearsheimer এর classic বই The Tragedy of Great Power Politics। Economics, society, institutions আর development নিয়ে এত বই পড়ার পর এবার আমরা ঢুকছি সবচেয়ে কঠিন প্রশ্নে: একটি দেশ আসলে survive করে কীভাবে?…
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Season 1: The Game Is Rigged: Squid Game, Capitalism, and the Illusion of Free Choice
What if the greatest trick capitalism ever pulled was convincing us that our suffering was our own fault? In Squid Game, 456…
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The Future Architecture of a Sick Democracy: Toward Machinocracy
By Towheed Elahi, Dhaka, Bangladesh. TLDR:Local democracy is collapsing in developed nations due to chronically low voter turnout. In some U.S. cities,…
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জাতিসমূহের অর্থনৈতিক ইতিহাসের সংক্ষিপ্ত কথন
Towheed Elahi, co-host of Between Lines and Lands – Official Podcast, explores how “if” and “but” moments – from the Magna Carta…
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Manufactured Freedom and the Myth of Choice
Founder & CEO of Stars and Rights, Shakil Ahmad, shares his op-ed in New Age Bangladesh on how freedom and choice are…
The hosts
Same book. Opposite lives.
The Californian capitalist
Shakil Ahmad
Fulbright Scholar. CFA Charterholder. Business intelligence lead with over a decade of experience making sense of financial data, one dashboard, SQL query and Excel formula at a time. He builds models that don’t just report numbers but explain why they matter. Between Lines and Lands is where he finally gets to talk about the bigger questions behind the numbers, and a few good books.
The Bangladeshi bureaucrat
Towheed Elahi
Laura Bush Fellow. Senior civil servant. A public-policy thinker navigating the machinery of governance from the inside out, with a master’s from Texas A&M and years of frontline experience in the civil service of Bangladesh. He turns bureaucratic labyrinths into plain-language insight, delivered with the calm of someone who has read the memo and drafted it.
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