What India’s current protests mean, and what they do not
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Why does Bangladesh keep starting from scratch in policymaking?
13 October 2026
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International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction / We must prepare for disasters before they strike
13 October 2026
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‘ACC must be freed from political and bureaucratic influence’
13 October 2026
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Stop attacks on campus journalists and ensure accountability
13 October 2026
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Taxing microsavings risks undermining financial inclusion of the poor
12 October 2026
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Can sand-filling help coastal households adapt to salinity?
12 October 2026
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How much longer must we wait for press freedom?
12 October 2026
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Modernise flood damage assessments to protect haor farmers
12 October 2026
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Strengthening consumer protection must go beyond mobile court raids
11 October 2026
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Xi Jinping’s Idea of World Order
While the United States is betting on a polarised world, China is doing everything it can to advance a more fragmented one.
3 April 2023
How to prevent gas explosions
A cheap solution has been around for decades
3 April 2023
Myanmar’s hybrid democracy is no democracy at all
The international community is rightfully saying that the junta is using legal instruments to gain legitimacy in the political landscape through a staged, superficial election “process”.
3 April 2023
The illusion of food self-sufficiency
If Bangladesh is self-sufficient in food, price hikes in the international market should not affect the domestic prices.
2 April 2023
Hero Alom: A revolutionary or a symptom?
The Alom who was prohibited from entering the sacred world of cinema has created his own micro-world.
2 April 2023
The UN got it wrong. We’re not just sad, we’re happily so
We toy with the idea of change, but seek accommodation with the status quo.
2 April 2023
Our reality versus government's narrative
Why is there so much difference between the reality of common people and that which the government wants to see or project?
2 April 2023
The Global Game of ChessGo
There is no endgame in war, only wealth and health destruction.
2 April 2023
How the poor dodge the pangs of hunger
The landless casual workers in rural areas and the urban poor face a bleak prospect.
1 April 2023
Before Trashing the Trash Culture…
The rejection of Hero Alom as a cultural entity hint at deep-seated social anxiety.
1 April 2023
State should investigate all deaths in custody
A sense of injustice being perpetrated against them by state actors is increasingly building up among the common people.
1 April 2023
What makes great research?
Research cannot flourish in an environment where critical enquiry is severely discouraged.
31 March 2023
Rahul Gandhi’s conviction: Another dent in India’s declining democracy
The same system that drags criminal cases for years starts to work on speed when power wants it to.
31 March 2023
A window of opportunity to phase out fossil fuels
We cannot continue to allow wealthy countries to externalise the damage of their pollution spree.
31 March 2023
On belonging
When you see all of the tiny imperceptible threads that connect everything, you realise that life is a shared experience.
30 March 2023
How did Sultana Jasmine die?
Sultana’s death only re-emphasises just how helpless we are at the hands of law enforcement members.
30 March 2023
Persecution of journalists: Condemnation isn’t enough
It is our moral duty to condemn the arrest of Samsuzzaman Shams and demand his immediate release.
30 March 2023
Victimising Shams shows why DSA should go
Yet another proof that the DSA has become a tool to suppress criticism and free thinking.
30 March 2023
IOC interest in our gas reserves is a good sign
ExxonMobil proposal should be considered with calculated speed.
30 March 2023
The deadly, murky history of the rules-based order
This month provides a harrowing historical landmark of what an ugly turn that order has taken in the past.
29 March 2023