H.M. Nazmul Alam

There are few places in a country that so completely represent its image as an airport. It is both a threshold and a mirror, reflecting not just the physical state of a nation but the moral tone of its institutions. For Bangladesh, Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) has long stood as that symbolic gateway—the first and last impression for millions who travel in and out of the country each year.

When a city demands miracles to survive its own design, something fundamental has gone wrong.

For two decades, Bangladesh lived under a comforting numerical, statistical, and sweetly deceptive illusion.

His reemergence through the recent interviews represents both a promise and a paradox.

For Bangladesh, export diversification has become an existential demand.

Breathing has become more lethal than smoking. How does one quit air?

What’s fuelling this surge in teenage crime?

Let all voices—whether popular or poisonous—be heard.