The liberalisation of trade has changed the agricultural heart of our nation.
We should use Martyred Intellectuals Day as an opportunity to meaningfully engage with their memories.
English is not a colonial relic but a necessity. It is the language of the internet, social media, and global culture.
In the urban spaces across Bangladesh, we need to adopt a model of human-non-human relations that is both practical and moral.
Are the apparitions of political sectarianism making a reappearance in Bangladesh?
The idea of dedicating a day to promote harmony and peaceful coexistence—a day that fosters diversity, justice, and understanding across borders, cultures, and beliefs—seems promising in theory.
There are lessons to be learnt from the way Dhaka became part of the intellectual map of the world.
We laugh, but deep down, there is a hidden admiration and approval for such deception. Is there any connection between our folkloric fascination with trickery and our public endorsement of such behaviour by our leaders?
Reconciliation cannot occur without truth-telling, accountability, and a commitment to dismantling the structures of violence that perpetuate inequality and injustice.
The movement was no longer about quotas; it was about justice.
Seeing our PhD holders choose menial jobs over research and innovation highlights a flaw in our educational policy.
Polarisation, rife with mutual fear and rage, is on the rise. Something dark and sinister is occurring.
Why does it matter for us when a foreign individual is free after such a long time?
Begum’s Blunder is a clever adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan. The play transports the Victorian setting to the imaginary Behrampur, the heyday of the Nawabs in India. With Naila Azad Nupur’s direction, and Sadaf Saaz working her behind-the-scenes magic as the producer, the production by Kaleidoscope projects lights on the prism of Wilde’s 1892 play to find their contemporary refractions and reflections in colonial India.
As I stand before the heap of fresh meat, my thoughts turn to the slain politician who was hacked to death
The UGC's decision to allow private universities to offer PhD programmes is a timely move.
A prestigious ranking system naming Dhaka University as the top university in Bangladesh makes us revisit that love-hate stance.
Moral policing by the West, when its own hypocrisy comes out through its actions controvening international law, one cannot help feeling bemused.
