Palestine is being reduced to a business opportunity under the Trump administration. Gaza is seen as prime real estate.
The 1971 Liberation War was the culmination of a long struggle for a democratic, secular, and egalitarian society.
Just because the Indian people supported Bangladesh in 1971, does that mean Bangladesh should now be indebted to the Indian government?
If we take Bangladesh as an example, the Liberation War was fundamentally fought to establish social justice.
True reform should involve policies that protect Dhaka’s residents and their right to a liveable city.
The mass uprisings of 1969 and 2024 have several similarities but differences also exist.
Until the fall of Sheikh Hasina's government in 2024, Bangladesh's economy was heavily shaped by rampant corruption, plundering, and illicit asset transfers.
The spirit of 1971 lives on, and it is up to the present generation to ensure that its promises are fulfilled.
Bangladesh is a workers’ land. More than seven million people are working here as manufacturing workers, nearly nine million in hotels and tea shops, more than four million in transport, two million in construction and more than 20 million women and men are actively engaged in agriculture.
Is development essentially harmful for the environment? Must we sacrifice the environment in order to achieve much-needed development? Should we allow poisoning of our air, destruction of our forests, and pollution of our water to embrace development? If the answer is yes, how can we survive—how can this mother earth retain its ability to support our existence and our reproduction?
The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports is proposing the “Peoples' Master Plan for Power and Energy (2017-2041)” as an alternative to the government's master plan.
I have known the site of Rana Plaza in Savar for almost four decades now. I have to cross Savar to and from the Jahangirnagar campus
If we say yes to the Sundarbans, then we must say no to the commercial projects harmful for its survival. Whether it is a power plant or any other commercial activity, whether it is foreign investment (FDI) or local investment, whether it is investment from India,
I first visited Bashkhali in 1991, immediately after a deadly cyclone devastated the area. I could not walk without touching a dead body or its parts...
The Sundarbans, the last reserve forest in the country and a world heritage site, is again under attack. On March 19, 2016, a cargo
Without changing the development paradigm, these expensive conferences, goals and agreements will only result in failure. Development must not be reduced to 'growth', and 'construction'.
We are living in the digital age of growth with deprivation; we see affluence with poverty, globalisation with increasing restrictions on
The finance minister has placed the budget of 2015-16 in the parliament that has been prepared under many favourable factors - lower petroleum price in the global market, huge foreign exchange reserve, stable export market, low inflation, and the lowest level of political opposition.
