Counting the dead, discounting the truth
There is something oddly comforting about numbers. They are neat, disciplined, and obedient. They sit quietly...
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30 Mar 2026
How violence is creeping into everyday life
The stories arrive almost every morning now, scattered across the inside pages of newspapers like fragments...
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24 Mar 2026
Transport politics and the extortion economy
There are 932 registered owner and worker organisations in Bangladesh’s road transport sector, according to the...
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17 Mar 2026
Why Jhenaidah keeps counting its dead
The death of Ananyo Ganguly should have unsettled the nation far beyond the confines of Jhenaidah....
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01 Mar 2026
Power, wisdom and the burden of governance
Civilisation has never progressed in a straight line. Its story is marked by cycles of order...
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12 Feb 2026
When rumour marries law and consent files for divorce
The rumour travelled faster than the law itself, which is not unusual in a country where...
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01 Feb 2026
Why our graduates lack the skills employers seek
Bangladesh today produces more graduates than at any other point in its history. Campuses have multiplied,...
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28 Jan 2026
Escaped prisoners and the cost of forgetting
Bangladesh is often described as a country that forgets quickly. Events that would dominate public discourse...
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13 Jan 2026
The cost of neglecting school sanitation
Bangladesh has spent decades persuading families to send their children to school. Attendance campaigns, stipend programmes,...
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31 Dec 2025
Chittagong Port at the edge of a new geopolitical tide
The map of the Bay of Bengal is being redrawn quietly, almost rhythmically, as if an...
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20 Dec 2025