Bangladesh faces a legal void on climate-induced migration
How prepared are urban spaces to deal with the ongoing influx of those who autonomously relocate or are forcibly displaced?
18 July 2025, 03:00 AM
18 July 2025, 03:00 AM
Of minoritisation and symbolic violence
Following the collapse of the government, reports began to circulate of attacks on temples, establishments and persons belonging to minority groups (that is, those of non-Bengali and non-Sunni Islam origins). News of these attacks themselves began to be weaponised, by regional and international interests, in a bid to reinforce the illusory narrative set by the Awami League.
8 October 2024, 12:26 PM
8 October 2024, 12:26 PM
Ghartera Edition 0: Junkyard
“Unlearning is a long process”. It’s doubtful to me that if we were to assemble an ensemble of artists, curators, gallerists, collectors
9 May 2019, 18:00 PM
9 May 2019, 18:00 PM
The Life and Times of Liverpool Fans
For a brief moment, in the 50th minute of the Champions League final in Kiev, Liverpool fans across the globe were seized by a sudden and inescapable madness. They had seen their talisman Salah trudge off in tears, breaking a million hearts in the process. They had seen Jürgen Klopp's plans of suffocating this seasoned Madrid side torn to shreds by an infuriating, and yet undeniably excellent, display of cynical
30 May 2018, 18:00 PM
30 May 2018, 18:00 PM
longform / Re-thinking 'Poverty' in Bangladesh
New measures of income inequality
14 September 2017, 18:00 PM
14 September 2017, 18:00 PM
history / Hool Johar: Revisiting the eternal Santhal Revolution
The Santhal Rebellion led to a calculated genocide by the British army who burned down hundreds of villages and killed and raped over 15,000 Santhals to quash their resistance.
6 July 2017, 18:00 PM
6 July 2017, 18:00 PM
BUDGET ANALYSIS / 'Unnoyoner' budget
Understanding the budget during the era of development.
8 June 2017, 18:00 PM
8 June 2017, 18:00 PM
ECOLOGY / The last days of an ecology
Gondamara union is not only incredibly disconnected from the rest of Banshkhali upazila and the greater Chittagong area, it isalso one of the most vulnerable places in the country to cyclones and tidal flooding.
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Ahmed Sofa In Posterity - Muslim Anxiety In A 'Muslim World'
We begin at a time after the battle of Karbala, where the traitor Simar is carrying Hazrat Hossain's disembodied head to Damascus in the hopes of getting a sizeable bounty.
27 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Addressing the land question
Bangladesh is home to a diverse group of religions and ethnicities, many of whom have culturally different ties to nature and land, and yet the rampant dispossessing of the poor from their lands is changing the realities of all these communities.
9 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Of Rape and Selective Outrage
‘It could've been my sister, it could've been my mother, it could've been me'. Every time the media reports on a story of a woman's rape,
31 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Jaago Bangladeshi Jaago
45 years ago, at the beginning of the month of March, Yahya Khan announced on televisions and radios that the General Assembly of Pakistan was to be postponed 'until a later date'.
24 March 2016, 18:00 PM
What Happens to Invisible Bodies?
The streets of Dhaka, and really, the entire country, exist in a kind of violence-ignorance dichotomy. We are ready at a moment's notice, it seems, to engage in any kind of mass public beating, regardless of what the victim's sins may have been. At the same time,
17 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Violence, Shaming and the Bangali Psyche
It has been estimated that almost 3 crore people in this country use the social media site Facebook. In a country where starvation, landlessness and extreme poverty are still very, very prevalent, the use of technology, especially smart phones with internet, has
17 March 2016, 18:00 PM
For Land, For Identity
Just past the bridge that connected the Tea Estate to Chunarughat Upazila, however, you could hear loud voices
17 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Those We Have Collectively Failed Hiramoni Shaotal
On the 2nd of March, Bangladesh beat Pakistan in the semi-finals of the recently concluded Asia Cup. It prompted an outpouring of
10 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Should the World #FeelTheBern?
The results from the Nevada caucus are in and it is now turning out to be a historic race for the Presidential nominee for both the
25 February 2016, 18:00 PM
The economics of learning a new language
When we look back at the previous century, we do so today with the wisdom that is only ever afforded to hindsight. But even through
20 February 2016, 18:00 PM
How to Kill a Language
In a couple of days from now, the country will commemorate the day lives were lost in 1952 to preserve the Bengali language and, more
18 February 2016, 18:00 PM
In Search of New Shades of the Human Condition
When I first heard of the initial details coming out of the organizing committee of the third edition of Dhaka Art Summit, I felt a little
11 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Threading New Paths for South Asian Art
The 3rd edition of the Dhaka Art Summit produced by the Samdani Art Foundation was its most ambitious yet, with the platform evolving
11 February 2016, 18:00 PM
The Fourth Estate
The concept of democracy is ever-evolving since the Greco-Roman experiments with the idea of allowing a group of people to decide
4 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Foreign investments under a heterodox microscope
Economics is not a science. As much as those of us studying and practicing the discipline would like to place it in the same category as the hard, positivist sciences, the fact of the matter is that it simply isn't. Unlike the hard sciences, we cannot embark upon environmentally controlled experiments using humans as lab rats to find out the truth of a particular economic theory.
31 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Facebook and the myth of free internet
Almost a year ago, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Sunil Kanti Bose made the comment that
31 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Cha-erDokaan, On the Other Side of the World
It had been almost a year and a half since I had been home. Home, noun- the place where one lives permanently, especially as a
28 January 2016, 18:00 PM
A Fight for Land and Livelihood
Mondagini Bakti stands in front of me with her left hand on her hip and her right hand outstretched towards the light, her palm stained with the yellow of ground turmeric.
21 January 2016, 18:00 PM
The Bangladesh We Speak of, 45 Years on
Picture a scenario where Mustafizur Rahman, the mercurial new addition to the Bangladeshi cricket team, claims a hattrick in the penultimate over of a game...
21 January 2016, 18:00 PM
A Revolution Hundred Years in The Making
There is a movement rising at the periphery of the country, where tea workers are finally taking to the street in a coordinated move against the century-long oppression they've been facing.
21 January 2016, 18:00 PM