Nine years on, the Rohingya still don't have a safe road home
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Blowin’ in the Wind
More LNG is not the answer to Bangladesh's energy crisis
28 August 2026
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Bangladesh’s gas crisis is also a logistics crisis
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Modern-day parenting needs better support
28 August 2026
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We need to prioritise future-ready skills over freelancing
28 August 2026
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The Pink Bus paradox and the price of women's safety
28 August 2026
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Can Invest Bangladesh live up to the expectations?
26 August 2026
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Our health system is better resourced now. Why can’t it still deliver?
26 August 2026
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Why char children need a different education policy
26 August 2026
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20 years after Phulbari: Don't repeat the mistake in the name of energy security
26 August 2026
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When the state falters, the streets make the rules
Bangladesh is living through daily un-governmentality.
10 September 2025
Article 116 restored: The judiciary’s long road back to itself
A recent High Court ruling restores the Supreme Court’s authority over postings, promotions, and discipline of the subordinate judiciary.
10 September 2025
From Dhaka to Kathmandu: How Gen Z is confronting power in South Asia
South Asian states must realise the cost of repression before it's too late.
9 September 2025
Rent control: A law that exists only on paper
Landlords often ignore the law, tenants do not know their rights, and enforcement is almost nonexistent
9 September 2025
From the end of empire to China-centric unipolarity
The 21st century’s centre of gravity is quietly shifting from Washington to Beijing.
9 September 2025
Managing our external debt needs a balanced strategy
Bangladesh's steadily rising debt levels are becoming a pressing issue.
9 September 2025
An election that could return Ducsu to the students
There is a sense of possibility in the air, a rare, almost tangible feeling that something is different.
8 September 2025
Bangladesh must bridge the adult and digital learning gap
Despite some progress in basic literacy, the country remains far behind in digital inclusion.
8 September 2025
23-min standing ovation for Hind Rajab, 28 small graves a day in Gaza
Does the 23-minute standing ovation for Hind Rajab's story mean anything beyond the echo?
8 September 2025
DUCSU election: Will informed voting triumph over inherited stigmas?
The historic event of 2024 disrupted the longstanding power dynamics of student politics, yet the narratives of equating persist.
7 September 2025
Strong on condemnation, weak on action
In 13 months, the government has issued at least 13 condemnations. That's one per month.
7 September 2025
Inaction as policy, lawlessness as outcome
The country deserves better than a government that only condemns after the fact
6 September 2025
The Cumilla crash exposes a systemic failure
The video of a crash in Cumilla last month presents the horrifying portrait of a system in collapse.
6 September 2025
Five and a half years ‘gone with the wind’
Breathing has become more lethal than smoking. How does one quit air?
6 September 2025
Violence, discrimination, and the failure to reform
There is growing disappointment and a sense of broken expectations among the people.
6 September 2025
Violence in Bangladesh’s RMG sector: Disposable lives, dispensable labour
Can we imagine and construct a political system that refuses to subordinate human dignity to the demands of global accumulation?
6 September 2025
The internet is making us reactionary, and it’s time to get off it
Social media often brings out the worst in people, with the anonymity of many platforms fuelling hostility towards strangers.
5 September 2025
The uneasy geometry of US-China-India-Russia relations
The SCO summit, held in Tianjin, China, was crafted as a spectacle.
5 September 2025
Threatening to gang-rape is not just vile, it’s a crime
Threats of repeated sexual violence subtly aim to intimidate and exclude women from public participation spaces
5 September 2025
Why are we trying to make the election uncertain?
Those who are working to prevent the election should question themselves as to how the people will be empowered without one.
4 September 2025