Senwara Begum sits at the door of her small hut with her nine-month-old baby at her breast. She has three other children, but there is nothing in the house to feed them.

2000, 1958, 1535, 1396 – these are the numbers of people killed in the lawless roads and highways of Bangladesh over the last four years.

48-year-old service holder Oshim Kumar Saha had a terrible motorbike accident in 2015; at a 'black spot' near Iliasganj Bazaar of Daudkandi in Dhaka-Chittagong highway (a black spot is a place that has a record of large numbers of crashes).

The recent transfer of a police official to the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) on February 23 shocked the people of CHT, and those on the plain lands who are aware of the sensitive situation in the region.

I had recently been asked to give a talk about “being an American Muslim in the United States.” Although wary of the uses and abuses of the term, I obliged.

All in a week's work. March has barely started. We already have five men (at least) raping, assaulting and killing the women they thought were below them.

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In the last few years, our education sector has been facing an inexorable crisis- disclosure of question papers, which is really unfortunate and disgraceful.

March is a month of celebration for every one who believes in the ideals of equality and freedom.

They say we live in a post-truth era where the facts don't matter. The belief that you already have in your mind is so strong that it, more often than not, overpowers the truth and dominates the part of your brain that helps you create an opinion on a particular issue.

International Women's Day is just around the corner. Every year this day brings with it a fresh calculation of the triumphs and losses of the women's movement.

I spent a lot of 2016 grieving. The worlds I belong to were roiled by news-making disaster all through last year. A hate-mongering would-be autocrat ascended to the highest political office in the United States, where I currently live.

Of the Nation Born: The Bangladesh Papers edited by Hameeda Hossain and Amena Mohsin is part of the Zubaan Series on Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia.

I feel like a mermaid. My body tells me I am a man and my soul tells me I am a woman — Heena, 51.

After three months as a migrant domestic worker in Saudi Arabia, Ejjatun Begum from Barisal realised one thing clearly – she had gotten herself into a trap.

WORKSHOP ON “COMBATING DEPRESSION IN WOMEN: LET'S TALK”

It was definitely after office hours when a phone call came and made me panic. The number on my screen was unknown but it was pretty easy to guess where the call came from. The law enforcement bodies have a digit sequence that most journalists in the city are trained to recognise.

A system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it.

On a warm spring afternoon, as I was desperately looking for a vacant rickshaw near the MA Aziz Stadium in Chittagong city, I heard a woman shouting from behind, "Baba! Wait, let me just finish my roti!

Set to reach middle income status by 2021, Bangladesh is at the crossroads of an economy in transition.