One year after: In Hasina’s imposed blackout, ink was the last light

How Bangladesh never gained its cultural sovereignty

Bangladesh won independence in 1971—but remains culturally colonized. This essay explores the nation's unfinished war for intellectual and cultural sovereignty. ...

Walls that sing: Graffiti and music in Bangladesh's Long July Revolution

How Humayun Ahmed mastered the craft of psychological horror stories

Crowned by the People, Abu Sayed has already become our new “Bir Shrestha”

Awami League’s shameless logic reveals its deeper contempt for basic human agencies

Tone-deaf and detached: Awami League’s response to BBC documentary reveals their declining social and electoral capital

Opinion

$Burdened by bloodlines: Is merit in the shadow of legacy in our fractured political era?$

Burdened by bloodlines: Is merit in the shadow of legacy in our fractured political era?

In a world driven by cynicism and spectacle, this essay defends the value of political legacy, principled leadership, and student activism. It challenges lazy stereotypes about political dynasties and the ...

Bangladesh has enough of the monstrous cynicism of turning murder into political capital

A ‘perceived’ culture of fear has rewired Bangladesh elite’s moral compass

The arrogance of the defeated, and the memory that burns back

No status quo can’t mute the screams of July uprising

Why Bangladesh’s parliament needs women with mandates, not favors

Bangladesh doesn’t need more politicians. It needs fewer

Interview

Prominent young IG Advisor rejects future of Pro-India or Pro-Pakistan politics in Bangladesh

Explore Mahfuj Alam's mysticism and strategic influence in post-uprising Bangladesh. In this exclusive interview, he ...

World-renowned human rights workers document "clear" evidence of police brutalities in July Uprising

Online activists reveal how memes became a powerful dissenting tool during the stifling Awami regime

Accomplished entrepreneur urges interim government to focus on crisis management, not political rhetoric

Leader of the largest Islamist party expresses his reluctance towards the politics of vengeance

Top Indian editor says New Delhi adopts a “Wait-and-Watch” approach on Dhaka situation

Prominent U.S. journalists foresee reduced checks and balances under Trump’s second term

Analysis

USA’s proposed tariffs on Bangladeshi exports: Where lies the pitfalls of Trump’s push for a “great deal”

Trump’s proposed 35% tariff on Bangladeshi imports threatens jobs, women’s empowerment, and global trade stability. A fairer path forward is possible. ...

Malnourished minds: The hidden crisis in Bangladesh’s university dining halls

The ‘liquid society’ that Awami League built and a generation that it swallowed..

Identity politics and the Bengali–Bangladeshi dichotomy is essentially a cloak for suppression…here is why

India’s Bangladesh blind spot is becoming a strategic crisis

Washington’s ‘bomb first, justify later’ doctrine has hallowed out the moral legitimacy of American ‘exceptionalism’

What are the true options of Iran in a ‘war’ it can’t win or quit?

Life & Arts

The lives of loot-born children after the end of Awami plunder..

A searing critique of Bangladesh’s ultra-elite youth and their performative politics, inherited wealth, and emotional ...

Why the movie ‘Traitor’ stands out as a counterpoint to Hollywood's Islamophobic narratives

How Past Lives uses silence and space to speak to my soul

Snow, silence, and solitude: The beautiful desolation of Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Inside the landed gentry of the ‘United Republic of Gulshan’

The song of Jamdani will fall silent…unless you pay its true price

Teen Goyenda: The paperbacks that shaped my wanderlust soul

News

BBC investigation ‘concludes’ Hasina ordered lethal force on ‘unarmed’ protesters during July Uprising

Containment integrity tests successfully completed at Rooppur Nuclear power plant

Bangladeshi student among global winners to embark on North Pole expedition aboard Russian nuclear icebreaker

India set to renegotiate Ganga Water Treaty with Bangladesh amid rising domestic demands

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