Opinion

The July uprising’s silent majority…

Every revolution produces its own gatekeepers. The slogans change and the banners change, but sooner or later, someone arrives to ...

Islamophobia without borders

Why a man between two flags deserves a film….

Ankara’s arms and Dhaka’s dilemma on the price of strategic autonomy

Sticks, carrots, and churning outrage

World Environment Day How can we stop choking our environment?

Bangladesh’s welfare policy shifting faces a fiscal reality check

Anti-Gambling Bill could restore sweeping state powers through a new legal route

Tofael Ahmed probably outlived his mistakes…but what legacy he truly had left?

My ordeal with extortion as a cattle trader

For six years, I have lived inside the realities of Bangladesh’s cattle trade. In that time, I have done business through ...

27 May 2026 15:31 PM

My ordeal with extortion as a cattle trader

Why public execution is no cure for structural violence

When a society is shaken by an act of unfathomable brutality, the instinctual human response is a cry for retribution. The ...

23 May 2026 19:16 PM

Why public execution is no cure for structural violence

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

The bodies were always found the same way. Dumped on deserted dirt roads, splayed in muddy rice paddies, or left under ...

21 May 2026 19:21 PM

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

In Bangladesh, knowledge is never neutral

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

In Bangladesh, knowledge is never neutral

The Awami League’s unmaking of Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh

The deification of Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh was never about literature; it was about politics. ...

08 May 2026 18:33 PM

The Awami League’s unmaking of Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s most ‘indispensable’ outsider

There are political operators who rise through ideology, and there are bureaucrats who rise through obedience. Then there is Dr ...

07 May 2026 20:26 PM

Bangladesh’s most ‘indispensable’ outsider

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

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