Views

Bangladesh needs to invest in home-based childcare

Golam Gilane

29 August 2026 • Views

It is time to make menstrual leave a reality in Bangladesh

Nazifa Tasmim

29 August 2026 • Opinion

Nine years on, the Rohingya still don't have a safe road home

Shamsad Mortuza

29 August 2026 • Blowin’ in the Wind

Bangladesh’s gas crisis is also a logistics crisis

Ahamedul Karim Chowdhury

29 August 2026 • Views

Modern-day parenting needs better support

Anika Zerin Chowdhury

28 August 2026 • Views

future ready skills for Bangladesh youth

We need to prioritise future-ready skills over freelancing

Zarif Faiaz

28 August 2026 • Views

Pink Bus service for women in Bangladesh

The Pink Bus paradox and the price of women's safety

Nadia Afroze Disha

28 August 2026 • Views

Can Invest Bangladesh live up to the expectations?

Rupayan Sarker

26 August 2026 • Views

Our health system is better resourced now. Why can’t it still deliver?

Rumana Huque

26 August 2026 • Views

Adventures in anxiety class

If airlines are going to offer a terrifying experience anyway, they might as well be honest about it.

5 July 2025

Time to end the harmful practice of child domestic work

The government has declared 43 types of work as hazardous for children—jobs that threaten their physical and mental development.

5 July 2025

violence against children in Bangladesh 2026

We cannot let violence silence our daughters

What is perhaps more insidious than the acts themselves is the language that now surrounds them. The lexicon of liberation has deliberately opted for expletives.

5 July 2025

Economic reform in Bangladesh must go beyond incrementalism

Reform shortfalls in key sectors still undermine Bangladesh's ability to cope with domestic economic challenges as well as external shocks.

5 July 2025

Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban: Kahn’s creation and a nation’s symbol of hope

Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, Louis Kahn’s renowned creation in Dhaka, was never just a structure of concrete.

4 July 2025

Bangladesh qualify for Women's Asian Cup 2026

Bangladesh’s secret elixir

In qualifying for their first ever AFC Women’s Asian Cup, Bangladesh found its gold not in experience, but in the youth.

4 July 2025

The clip that keeps haunting her

What began as a crime turned into a permanent sentence of shame and exposure

4 July 2025

The climate budget for FY26 is disappointing

The new climate budget of Bangladesh should have allocated funds under the Just Transition theme—not just for emission reduction, but also for ensuring workers’ rights during such transitions

4 July 2025

The war that Israel lost

Clearly, Israel's political and military leadership did not do their homework on Iran.

4 July 2025

Why reforming the NHRC as per the Paris Principles matters

NHRC staff now see a light of hope to make the organisation stronger and credible at home and abroad.

4 July 2025

When the state thinks like a man

Muradnagar rape unmasked, yet again, the cruel face of the state as a male homologue.

4 July 2025

problems in Bangladesh public health sector

Unveiling the hidden truths of Bangladesh’s public health sector

The second hidden reality is the monetised cost of wastage within the public health system.

3 July 2025

In the world of Adler, people would be doers, not talkers

Alfred Adler dared to imagine something different that didn’t chain people to their pasts.

3 July 2025

Khilkhet eviction: What is illegal and what is just?

The authorities argue that the eviction drive was routine.

3 July 2025

The law Bangladesh needs to protect children

Grooming is the process through which an adult establishes a connection with an underage individual to win their trust, with the eventual aim of sexually abusing or exploiting them.

3 July 2025