'What about us?'

While discussing the legal recognition of gender identity, many participants highlighted that the state authorities and general people lack sufficient understanding of the various clusters of the transgender population.
5 March 2023

Sexual violence in madrasas: sufferings remain unheard

By interviewing current and former students of Qawmi madrasas, we wanted to know why sexual violence happens in the institutions where they go to study the Quran and where they are supposed to maintain strict Islamic practices.
5 March 2023

What’s wrong with how we report on violence against women?

It is clear that the way we are talking about violence against women is not working
5 March 2023

Basic healthcare still out of reach for most in Gaibandha chars

Women and girls suffer the most, with hardly any services for reproductive and maternal health.
5 March 2023

What does salinity have to do with SRHR anyway?

The increasing difficulty of accessing clean water is forcing young women in coastal areas of Bangladesh to try to halt their menstrual cycles by misusing contraceptive pills, putting their long-term reproductive and mental health at risk.
5 March 2023

Caught between two pandemics

According to our study, 17 percent of women experienced physical abuse during the Covid-19 pandemic, 30 percent of them reported mental torture while 34 percent reported no harassment or abuse
5 March 2023

Our anti-corruption capacity is hostage to power

Positions of power acquired through various means have long been allowed to be treated as a licence for self-enrichment through various illicit means.
5 March 2023

AI and the Global South

Unprecedentedly powerful predictive tools will strengthen authoritarian regimes’ surveillance capacity.
5 March 2023

Legends Never Die

We have lost not only a great man and a charismatic person, but also a real guardian and a visionary business leader.
5 March 2023

Shabbir Ahmed Shuvo: An inspiration for future (and all) generations

Shabbir Ahmed Shuvo, a Bangladeshi scholar of international repute, has left his legacy for many generations to come.
5 March 2023

What we learnt about SRHR from our work with landless groups

How can a development organisation in Bangladesh truly reach the grassroots?
4 March 2023

Role of developmental propaganda in politics

Because of the importance given to debt-funded infrastructure-based development, the country’s economy is being burdened by increasing unsustainable foreign debt and import dependence.
4 March 2023

How to not ‘be a woman’ on Bangladeshi public buses

How can women travel on public transport without feeling like sub-humans?
4 March 2023

‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ adaptation hits all the right notes

The streaming adaptation retains the flash-forward tell-all interview framing device through an on-screen documentary.
4 March 2023

Shrinkflation: Downsizing in the time of inflation

How do we address the silent famine that is looming large?
4 March 2023

What makes a good teacher in the 21st century?

Today, the question of being a 'good teacher' generates a new vernacular.
3 March 2023

Make education accessible for children with disabilities

Keeping them away from mainstream education means hindering their connection to the real world
3 March 2023

Securing the safety of ordinary students

The real culprit is the BCL's sense of entitlement.
2 March 2023

A Licence to Kill

Why is it possible to manufacture and advertise a car that goes faster than the maximum allowable speed?
2 March 2023

Could the President have done more during his tenure?

Despite his limited authority, President Hamid had the opportunities to do certain things and say certain things, but he did not.
2 March 2023