Bangladesh, Feb. 24 -- There is an old joke in political circles — one that is darkly funny precisely because it is so reliably true — that power is never really lost. It merely changes addresses. In Bangladesh, that joke has taken on a particularly brazen new form. Within twenty-four hours of the interim governments dissolution, its two most prominent press officials had already found employment. No gap. No waiting. No uncertainty. The job, it seems, found them.

That detail alone is worth sitting with for a moment.

Shafiqul Alam, who served as Press Secretary to the former Chief Adviser, and Abul Kalam Azad Majumdar, who held the post of Deputy Press Secretary, are both headed to a new English-language daily called “D...