Will Bangladesh's social security budget help the poor?
25 June 2026, 16:58 PM
Big Picture
Should political parties be publicly funded?
24 June 2026, 08:43 AM
Big Picture
Can outcome-based education survive the age of AI?
22 June 2026, 08:52 AM
Big Picture
Remembering Ishaque Ali / When Bengalis stood up to racism in the UK
20 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Big Picture
Bangladesh's cottage industries need more than nostalgia
18 June 2026, 08:45 AM
Big Picture
Can a social media ban for children work in Bangladesh?
17 June 2026, 09:29 AM
Big Picture
Why Bangladesh keeps suffering from an epidemic of bad projects
15 June 2026, 09:12 AM
Big Picture
Big Picture / The long transformation of rural Bangladesh
13 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Big Picture
Islamic banking’s problem is the model, not the name
11 June 2026, 08:30 AM
Big Picture
What India and Bangladesh get wrong about the Teesta
10 June 2026, 14:37 PM
Big Picture
The Gurukul Legacy: The lost dialogue between teacher and student
In an age dominated by speed, screens, and relentless competition, something profoundly human is quietly slipping through our fingers: the gentle, ethical, and transformative dialogue between a teacher and a student.
19 March 2026, 14:00 PM
Typhoid in Bangladesh: A persistent public health challenge
Once inside the body, S. Typhi treats its new premium real estate with remarkable disrespect.
17 March 2026, 10:00 AM
Rooppur begins, but is Bangladesh Prepared?
This risk becomes particularly significant when a large nuclear reactor is involved. Nuclear plants are designed primarily for base-load electricity generation.
16 March 2026, 12:04 PM
The family card: Universal promise or targeted programme?
Public debate has been energetic but confusing. People hear "universal" in one statement, then "starting with the ultra-poor" in another, then learn of a pilot in selected upazilas. These are not details for technicians to iron out later.
12 March 2026, 16:40 PM
Why Bangladesh's new government faces an old narrative trap
In Bangladesh, power has rarely been exercised without a story attached to it. Governments have not governed only through policies and institutions, but through narratives that explain who they are, who belongs, and what dangers supposedly lie outside their authority.
11 March 2026, 16:30 PM
Ensure fair prices through auctions of agricultural commodities
Bangladesh is a country where millions of people still suffer from poverty, and so food prices are a political issue. It's imperative that the government ensures that agricultural commodities are sold at fair prices, but until now there has been no uniform understanding of a mechanism which can ensure fair pricing. z
10 March 2026, 13:56 PM
The crisis inside Bangladesh’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunals
Specialised courts remain one of the most important mechanisms for addressing crimes against women and children, but meaningful reform is urgently needed.
8 March 2026, 12:00 PM
Without a Bangladesh wildlife service, our wildlife has no future
On March 3, as the world marked World Wildlife Day, Bangladesh was reminded of a structural question: can biodiversity survive under a revenue-oriented forest governance model?
7 March 2026, 02:05 AM
Ramadan in the age of screens
Ramadan lives simultaneously in crowded markets and quiet hostels, in neighbourhood mosques and on mobile screens.
4 March 2026, 14:04 PM
What Bangladesh's Women's movement shares with Nepal and Myanmar
Activism is not just a reaction to an incident or a one-day event—it is a continuous process, a relentless fight for equality that must persist until it is achieved.
4 March 2026, 11:02 AM
The promises and perils of a ‘Notun Tej’ in Bangladeshi architecture
Nearly a hundred years ago, in 1927, something “revolutionary” happened in Stuttgart, Germany.
28 February 2026, 00:13 AM
Why writing classes still matter in the age of AI
The real problem is not the use of AI itself. The problem is that writing classes have often focused too much on the finished essay and not enough on the thinking behind it.
27 February 2026, 10:30 AM
What we miss when we talk about migrant labour
As we consider the realities faced by migrants, their power to organise, and the significance of their contributions, it becomes clear that migration is not a problem to be solved but a dynamic process to be understood and respected.
25 February 2026, 15:53 PM
Reading ‘Parallels’ through history, politics and literature
If we look at Bangladesh in parallel to Europe during the 1968 uprisings, we find Dhaka itself boiling with mass unrest in 1969.
24 February 2026, 11:22 AM
André Béteille: A sociologist Bangladesh should read
It is puzzling that in Bangladesh universities, both sociology and anthropology disciplines overlooked and neglected the Weberian model of multidimensional stratification system.
23 February 2026, 17:17 PM
Emerging pollutants and public health risks in Bangladesh
Moreover, microplastics can absorb heavy metals such as nickel, cadmium, lead, copper, and titanium onto their surfaces, increasing the risk of cancer in the human body.
21 February 2026, 00:42 AM
You won! Now what?
We don’t need more violence, not even in the name of punishment.
14 February 2026, 17:07 PM
How is ignoring safe water and sanitation slowing sustainable growth?
Bangladesh has around 180 million people living in a small land area and ranks 8th in the world by population, though the GDP of the country was USD 2551 in 2023.
14 February 2026, 00:49 AM
What Bangladesh must learn about political transitions
It is tempting to draw dramatic parallels between the Arab Spring and contemporary South Asia, especially as Bangladesh is, at the time of writing, holding the much-anticipated parliamentary elections.
12 February 2026, 16:53 PM
Women without power: The politics of purdah, Jamaat and Maududi’s legacy
Maududi treats normal gender interaction as dangerous, placing the burden on women to withdraw while excusing men from responsibility.
11 February 2026, 14:02 PM