Across the Global South, especially in countries like Bangladesh that sit at the receiving end of neo-imperial extraction, there is ...
13 May 2026 00:55 AM
Bangladesh voted against the inevitable. WB didn’t
The churn of elections in West Bengal has, once again, cast a revealing light across the border, onto Bangladesh—and onto ...
05 May 2026 14:26 PM
The dangerous pleasure of watching power punish others
Every age invents its own forms of spectatorship. Ours may be the age of punitive entertainment. The viral clip of ...
25 Apr 2026 23:45 PM
The brutal logic behind Bangladesh’s fuel and food lines
Before confronting the spectacle of scarcity, now visible in Bangladesh’s fuel crisis, it is worth recalling a blunt axiom from ...
28 Mar 2026 17:15 PM
Why tragedy repeats itself in Bangladesh
After every fatal accident in Bangladesh, a collapsing structure or a submerged bus, one question returns with unsettling persistence that ...
26 Mar 2026 17:14 PM
Why Bangladesh now feels like a David Lynch film…
After Hiroshima and Nagasaki were reduced to shadows, American military planners confronted an unsettling problem during the Cold War on ...
05 Feb 2026 07:40 AM
Why governing against the far right destroyed the center in Bangladesh
When an animal senses mortal danger, a primitive circuit in the autonomic nervous system seizes control. The “fight or flight” ...
29 Dec 2025 18:25 PM
Why ordinary Bangladeshis are losing the political fight
After watching Denzel Washington’s Equalizer films, I went back to the source material—the 1980s television series that first introduced Robert ...
22 Dec 2025 18:39 PM
We need to understand the ‘pyrophilic politics’ of the ultra right
In nineteenth-century America, a nativist political faction became known, mockingly and then officially, as the “Know Nothing” Party.
This happened because ...
03 Dec 2025 19:17 PM
How a collapsed party like Awami League still disrupts the present
The Awami League is a party that once managed to lose a mayoral race even while holding national power in ...