Bangladesh needs life-centred education reform for students

Active learning, moral education, teamwork, and community engagement should be embedded across all subjects.
14 September 2025

Beyond the flames: Nepal’s search for a sovereign path

The Himalayas have always been a place of profound silence and deep truths.
14 September 2025

Navigating pre-election tensions: A plea for common sense

The trend of settling old scores about “who did what” decades ago should be seen as a distraction from the huge challenges facing any incoming government.
14 September 2025

We must professionalise our fight for stolen wealth

Money does not come home on press releases. It comes home case by case, with quiet diplomacy and implacable lawyering.
14 September 2025

My Ducsu voting experience: The good and the bad

The voting process was absolutely seamless.
13 September 2025

Badruddin Umar: A tribute to a genuine scholar and committed activist

Umar is and will be remembered today as a committed and uncompromising icon of the left.
13 September 2025

When campus politics takes the centre stage

The disproportionate attention given to student polls exposes the political vacuum created by the country's eroded electoral culture.
12 September 2025

Trial by fire

The Gen Z movement now has to unite to take the lead in reconstructing the Nepali state.
12 September 2025

Transparency alone won’t modernise Bangladesh’s power sector

One of the key measures in this year’s budget is the repeal of the Quick Enhancement of Electricity and Energy Supply (Special Provision) Act, 2010, to enhance transparency.
12 September 2025

Trees can be the cheapest anti-heat, anti-anger infrastructure

In Dhaka, trees are treated as expendable. They are cut down for road-widening with no plan for replacement.
12 September 2025

When the state fails the dead

The body of Nurul Haque was exhumed and set on fire by a mob.
12 September 2025

Nepal’s Gen Z revolt is a mirror Bangladesh should study hard

Nepal’s streets did not wake up one morning and decide to overthrow a government for sport.
12 September 2025

Ducsu election: Identity, strategy, and the politics

Those who won the Ducsu election on Tuesday have set a new precedent.
11 September 2025

The economic cost of delaying the election

The political vacuum that Bangladesh finds itself in is not just a constitutional or moral problem.
11 September 2025

Remembering Badruddin Umar: An inspiring scholar

He was a true scholar, a delightful conversationalist, and an uncompromising social activist.
11 September 2025

Returning after 33 years, what difference will Jucsu make?

Jucsu is expected to break a 33-year-long silence at Jahangirnagar University.
10 September 2025

The job no one claps for

Women’s unpaid household and care work sustains the nation, yet remains invisible
10 September 2025

Between death and desire to live: A suicide survivor’s account

Sometimes survival is the most radical act we can perform.
10 September 2025

Digital wages can unlock women’s economic power in Bangladesh

Among account owners, women’s adoption of digital payments lags behind men’s across the region by 15 percentage points.
10 September 2025

Inflation and inequality fuelling a geography of despair in Bangladesh

An economy cannot thrive on the optimism of a few while the majority remain weighed down by despair.
10 September 2025