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History finally came calling this week for Muhammad Yunus, often mooted as the sage, seasoned technocrat that Bangladesh needed, after the toppling of the country’s autocratic leader and his personal nemesis Sheikh Hasina.Hours after Hasina fled to India to escape mobs marching on her house, student leaders of the “Monsoon Revolution” demanded parliament be dissolved and the octogenarian Nobel Peace Prize winner Yunus installed to head an interim government.By Thursday Yunus, clad in a simple kurta and vest, had flown from Paris, where he launched a social entrepreneurship venture with the mayor and had a square named after him, to Dhaka, where the institutions of the old regime — police, judiciary, government — were melting away.Yunus is now beginning what can objectively be described as the job from hell. As with past topplings of tyrants in countries like Romania and Iraq, the seeds of future crises are already emerging from the shadows amid public rejoicing and recriminations. With students directing traffic in Dhaka, Yunus appealed for calm and the protection of minorities after days of violence, looting and arson that included attacks on homes and monuments associated with Hasina’s Awami League, Hindus, and others.For the 84-year-old micro-lending pioneer, returning to Bangladesh as the interim government’s chief adviser — in effect prime minister — is surely sweet vindication. Though Yunus is celebrated abroad, Hasina’s government had pursued a legal vendetta against him and his operations, slandering him as a “bloodsucker” of the poor. In January, a labour court sentenced him to six months in prison in what his supporters called a trumped-up case — one that has been dropped after Hasina’s overthrow.Yunus likened this week’s events to “a second liberation”, referring to Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan in 1971.His comeback is remarkable in a year when US President Joe Biden, three years his junior, has been shunted aside in the race for the White House because of his advanced age and declining performance. “No one can think of a better person to contain the situation, to restore law and order, and regain the trust of people in the government than Dr Yunus,” says Tasneem Zaman Labeeb, 22, a student protester from Dhaka university’s business school. “Students are supporting him because we never really had a wise or intelligent policymaker as our government head.”The fate of the world’s eighth-most populous country is now being vested in the fragile vessel of its most famous citizen, watched by global policymakers who see Bangladesh as strategically vital in a tense Indo-Pacific.“I find it fitting that the young students who did this second liberation of Bangladesh are now the ones calling on him,” says Saskia Bruysten, a friend and co-founder of Yunus Social Business. “This will be a superstrong combination: young people leading the way, and his old age and wisdom coming together.” Yunus was born in 1940 in Chittagong as the third of 14 children, five of whom died young. In his book Banker to the Poorhe credited his mother Sofia Khatun, whose concern for the poor “helped me discover my destiny”. After winning a Fulbright scholarship and settling into teaching in Tennessee, he felt the pull home after the 1971 war.When famine struck Bangladesh in 1974, he began studying ways to help farmers, fixating on access to credit after noting that people’s fate was being decided by pennies a day. Yunus began building what was to become Grameen Bank (derived from the word gramor village), starting with a micro-loan of $27 to 42 people, prioritising lending to women. By 2003 Grameen was working with 36,000 villages. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.In 2007, Yunus formed his own party and was briefly touted as an interim leader. He soon abandoned the effort, but according to his supporters this aroused Hasina’s ire.In 2010, her government demanded an investigation after a Norwegian documentary alleged Yunus had misappropriated donors’ money. A Norwegian government probe found no wrongdoing, but the following year he was ousted from Grameen’s board on grounds of his age (70). The Hasina-Yunus rivalry resurfaced in 2022-3 during nationwide political unrest. As her government piled legal cases on Yunus and Grameen, he rallied his global network. In January, 242 world figures including Barack Obama, Ban Ki-moon, and Orhan Pamuk signed a letter to Hasina urging a legal review. Analysts say Yunus’s international network could now be one of his greatest strengths as he seeks to stabilise a faltering economy.But even with ample political capital, his to-do list — restoring law and order, fixing the economy and reforming corrupted institutions — is long, not least for a man in his 80s. His allies insist he will rise to the occasion. “Bangladesh is at a critical economic and political crisis and has become the epicentre of geopolitical interest,” says Asif Nazrul, a law professor and member of Yunus’s interim government. “But nobody in Bangladesh is better placed than Dr Yunus to address the issues.”[email protected]
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