Zakir Kibria is a writer and policy analyst. He can be reached at [email protected].
Economic realities—stagnant wages, yawning inequality, housing crises, evaporating mobility—have fostered entrapment and diminished expectations.
To survive Dhaka, you need a strategy. Start by embracing the absurd: treat every crisis as a plot twist.
The Dhanshiri still flows past the locked archive. It remembers young Jibanananda boarding steamers to Khulna, scribbling verses in the damp air.
Perhaps meaning isn't found in the survival itself, but forged in the telling and the hearing.
The proposal for a Bangladesh-Myanmar aid channel is rooted in a decade of failed diplomacy.
The seeds of the Ukraine war were sown in the ashes of the Soviet Union.
For two centuries, the banyan tree had stood sentinel over Madaripur’s crossroads, its aerial roots cascading like the beard of a Sufi saint.
The SCO's flexibility allows rivals to engage without losing face—a vital feature for South Asia’s fractured geopolitics.
Vargas Llosa’s crusade, a failure that seeded literary triumph, whispers a question: can stories outlive the frailty of those who write them?
The August 2024 uprising led to dismantling much of the law enforcement-related infrastructure.