Opinion

World Environment Day How can we stop choking our environment?

Climate change is no longer a distant threat; it is a present reality. Rising temperatures, polluted air and water, degraded soils, ...

Bangladesh’s welfare policy shifting faces a fiscal reality check

My ordeal with extortion as a cattle trader

Why public execution is no cure for structural violence

Renaming RAB won’t end Bangladesh’s culture of impunity

In Bangladesh, knowledge is never neutral

The Awami League’s unmaking of Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s most ‘indispensable’ outsider

Bangladesh voted against the inevitable. WB didn’t

The end of the buffer

For decades, West Bengal was the delta where the Hindu-nationalist tide of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) invariably broke. ...

04 May 2026 21:23 PM

Science, sovereignty…and the long game

In Bangladesh, on Tuesday, officials celebrated the loading of uranium fuel at the Rooppur nuclear power plant while in India, ...

29 Apr 2026 16:08 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 dangerous pleasure of watching power punish others

The strait that empires misread…..again

History rarely announces its conclusions. It circles and returns, often to the same narrow straits through which empires once rose ...

03 Apr 2026 22:21 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

The brutal logic behind Bangladesh’s fuel and food lines

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 tragedy repeats itself in Bangladesh

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 Bangladesh now feels like a David Lynch film…

Khaleda Zia: At rest with power in a restless democracy

The life of a politically exposed person is rarely ordinary. In South Asia and Southeast Asia, it is often operatic—upheaval ...

06 Jan 2026 21:18 PM

Khaleda Zia: At rest with power in a restless democracy

Is anyone buying Awami League’s crocodile tears?

During Sheikh Hasina’s 16-year long dictatorial rule, few images captured the Awami League’s mastery of performative grief more starkly than ...

02 Jan 2026 13:00 PM

Is anyone buying Awami League’s crocodile tears?

A son’s farewell…and a political threshold

Tarique Rahman’s restrained conduct at Khaleda Zia’s funeral signals a shift in Bangladeshi politics, raising questions about statesmanship, BNP’s future, ...

01 Jan 2026 16:51 PM

A son’s farewell…and a political threshold

Khaleda Zia: The wall she was, the line she held

I was never a partisan of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), nor a devotee of Begum Khaleda Zia. ...

30 Dec 2025 16:21 PM

Khaleda Zia: The wall she was, the line she held