Rethinking international aid practices in Bangladesh
While the pandemic was a first in recent times, there has been an international aid system in place for decades now to deal with the fallout of war, hunger, poverty, refugees, and forced displacement.
3y ago
LAILA NUR: A force of resilience
Laila Nur first stood up against the Pakistan government as a schoolgirl of only 15, just about to sit for her SSC exams in 1948.
4y ago
Lost decades in Rohingya camps
Long before August 2017, there were Rohingya refugees who lived in camps in Cox’s Bazar, who had left Myanmar decades ago.
4y ago
A city free of fear: what women voters want
A 21-year-old DU student was raped and tortured in a notoriously dark stretch of the Airport Road in Kurmitola on the evening of January 5. The lone suspect, who was arrested a few days later, had allegedly raped and mugged other women near the spot in the past.
4y ago
The misleading claims
Suu Kyi: Please allow me to clarify the term clearance operation. Its meaning has been distorted. As early as the 1950s has been used against communists. It simply means to clear an area of insurgents or terrorists.
4y ago
THE LAST HUSTLE
The soft light of the setting sun illuminates the entire section every time I walk in, mostly because I AM ALWAYS LATE. On one side white balloons hang, on another side a dart board.
4y ago
“I never start writing until I can hear the voices of the main characters in my head”
I always had a desire to write fiction from school days onwards, but ‘to be a writer’ seemed like an unattainable goal.
4y ago
Lost in documentation
A long-awaited and yet-to-be released ‘Ethno-Linguistic Survey of Bangladesh’ identifies 14 indigenous languages on the verge of extinction. Completed in 2015, this is the first large-scale linguistic survey undertaken in the country since the colonial-era ‘Linguistic Survey of India’ by George Abraham Grierson in 1928.
5y ago
September 1, 2017
Ethically representing narratives of birangonas
An estimated 200,000-400,000 women and girls were raped by the Pakistani army and their local Bengali collaborators during the Liberation War of Bangladesh. Six days after the war ended on December 16, 1971, women raped during the war were designated birangonas, war heroines, in an effort by the fledgling Bangladeshi government to recognise and honour them.
August 18, 2017
Traffic alert fails
Why apps are unable to map Dhaka's traffic
August 11, 2017
No country for indigenous women
Indigenous women suffer discrimination on multiple fronts—as women and as minorities
August 4, 2017
Not your regular 9-to-5 job
With greater independence in work and better pay, many Bangladeshi workers are turning to freelancing in the online marketplace.
July 28, 2017
Jane Austen's words, in numbers
Jane Austen is seeing something of a revival, if that can be said of an eternally popular writer, this year.
July 21, 2017
What about justice for the unheard?
It is a long and difficult struggle for persons with intellectual, hearing and speech disabilities
July 14, 2017
Can business and social change be compatible?
While profit is the only bottom line for businesses, a social and/or environmental mission is paramount for social enterprises.
June 23, 2017
Being VAT Smart
Since the announcement of the new budget, one of the main concerns of consumers countrywide has been the imposition of a flat 15 percent value added tax (VAT) rate on most goods and services.
June 16, 2017
Community radio: Helping save lives during Cyclone Mora
The radio may be largely diminished as a medium for conveying information in modern urban life, but community radios in rural areas of Bangladesh are actually helping save lives during natural disasters.
June 9, 2017
Cyclone Mora batters Rohingya homes
Flimsy huts and lack of early warning in the camps lead to considerable damage.
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