CARO’s Founder, A.N.M. Nuruddin, has published a new full-length manuscript on CARO Bangla: ২০৭৫: আমরা যা হতে পারি — 2075: What We Could Become, subtitled A Blueprint for Bangladesh’s Future.
This is not a research paper and not a policy brief. It’s a first manuscript draft (2026), written as a direct, personal argument — built on the same conviction that runs through all of CARO’s work: Bangladesh’s stalled progress is not a failure of its people. It’s the output of a governance structure that keeps every generation re-fighting the same fights, with the same names, over the same fifty years, while the attention that could have built something new gets spent instead on settling the past.
The book makes that case deliberately without naming a single political party or leader. Its argument is that the problem is structural — a design that produces the same result no matter who holds power — and that naming individuals would miss the point it’s trying to make.
How it’s built
An introduction and six chapters, organized into six movements:
- Recognition — opens with an honest, uncomfortable comparison: the morning we could be waking up to, against the one we actually do.
- Grief — an accounting of fifty years of what was never built — the labs, the universities, the companies — measured against nations that started from a similar place after 1971 and diverged.
- Rage — names the mechanism directly: how loyalty structures outlive the individuals in them, and how an “economy of grievance” runs on attention that was never freely given up.
- Pivot — the book’s central argument: revolution answers the wrong question. It changes who holds power, not the shape power is allowed to take. Design does the latter.
- Ambition — five vignettes of 2075: a Chittagong lab whose diagnostic model is used on four continents; a letter from a granddaughter describing an education system where a postcode no longer sets a ceiling; an entrepreneur exporting software instead of garments; an election result met with routine indifference instead of crisis; Bangladesh at an international table presenting a solution other countries adopt, not asking for aid.
- Covenant — closes with five specific, deliberately small things a reader can start doing this coming Monday morning — none of them require joining an organization or taking a political side.
Read it
The manuscript is live now on CARO Bangla, with a language toggle for both the Bangla original and the English translation: → https://carobd.caroglobal.org/amra_2075.html
Use the বাংলা / English switch in the top bar or on the cover to read it in either language — the full text is available in both.