Zakir Kibria

Zakir Kibria is a writer and policy analyst. He can be reached at [email protected].

The desert and the dream: Can the West remember how to hope?

Economic realities—stagnant wages, yawning inequality, housing crises, evaporating mobility—have fostered entrapment and diminished expectations.

5d ago

Why Dhaka has become unliveable

To survive Dhaka, you need a strategy. Start by embracing the absurd: treat every crisis as a plot twist.

1w ago

The locked archive: How bureaucracy silences Bengal’s poetic soul

The Dhanshiri still flows past the locked archive. It remembers young Jibanananda boarding steamers to Khulna, scribbling verses in the damp air.

2w ago

The miracle seat and the girl who burned

Perhaps meaning isn't found in the survival itself, but forged in the telling and the hearing.

2w ago

Bangladesh’s strategic tightrope in Rakhine

The proposal for a Bangladesh-Myanmar aid channel is rooted in a decade of failed diplomacy.

1m ago

The Ukraine war was provoked

The seeds of the Ukraine war were sown in the ashes of the Soviet Union.

1m ago

Chainsaws at dawn: The assassination of a Banyan tree

For two centuries, the banyan tree had stood sentinel over Madaripur’s crossroads, its aerial roots cascading like the beard of a Sufi saint.

1m ago

Kashmir’s bloodstained meadows: Can the SCO show a road to reconciliation?

The SCO's flexibility allows rivals to engage without losing face—a vital feature for South Asia’s fractured geopolitics.

2m ago
April 16, 2025
April 16, 2025

Lima's ballot, Dhaka's echo: Vargas Llosa's political foray

Vargas Llosa’s crusade, a failure that seeded literary triumph, whispers a question: can stories outlive the frailty of those who write them?

April 11, 2025
April 11, 2025

Mob violence: Causes, consequences, and pathways to justice

The August 2024 uprising led to dismantling much of the law enforcement-related infrastructure.

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