
Psymhe Wadud
Psymhe Wadud teaches law at the University of Dhaka and is in charge of Law Desk at The Daily Star.
Psymhe Wadud teaches law at the University of Dhaka and is in charge of Law Desk at The Daily Star.
Muradnagar rape unmasked, yet again, the cruel face of the state as a male homologue.
The roots of patriarchy lies in the hegemonic colonial masculinity.
Constitution-making is invariably an “elitist” chore, as scholars rightly call it “equitable elite bargaining.”
The Cyber Ordinance Ordinance has to be judged on its own merit and based only on its seemingly “better” provisions.
Our parliament, on the other hand, drafted a self-defeating provision, Article 7B, by declaring one-third of the text of the constitution as unamendable through the usual constitutional amendment process.
Perhaps, in both catering to and exploiting such complexities, the language of authority in Bangladesh has been of compulsion, uncritical submission, and exertion of force.
The “interim” government will have to operate beyond the constitutional scheme as the current one does not endorse an interim
History shows how the “woman question”, “indigenous question”, “transgender question”, and “disabled question” get subsumed in the midst of dominant voices
Section 155(4) of the Evidence Act, 1872 allows evidence of the victim's immoral character to be offered by the defence. The rationale