Dhaka, April 9 -- There is a concept in political philosophy that the Italian theorist Giorgio Agamben spent decades developing - one that, read in a library or a seminar room, feels like an intellectual exercise, but read against the daily dispatches from Cox's Bazar in 2026, feels like prophecy. He called it 'bare life': the condition of biological existence stripped of political protection, of a human being reduced to a body that can be harmed but cannot seek justice, fed but cannot earn, sheltered but cannot own. Agamben borrowed the idea from Roman law's figure of 'homo sacer' - the person who existed outside every legal category, who could be killed but not sacrificed, who occupied a juridical void where neither the state nor custom...