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.

3d 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.

5d 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.

1m ago
June 30, 2025
June 30, 2025

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.

June 28, 2025
June 28, 2025

Why Dhaka has become unliveable

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

June 19, 2025
June 19, 2025

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.

June 17, 2025
June 17, 2025

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.

May 19, 2025
May 19, 2025

Bangladesh’s strategic tightrope in Rakhine

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

May 13, 2025
May 13, 2025

The Ukraine war was provoked

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

May 8, 2025
May 8, 2025

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.

May 5, 2025
May 5, 2025

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.

April 27, 2025
April 27, 2025

The symphony of grass and grace: Liverpool’s resurrection under a new maestro

A meditation on faith, flesh, and football, through the eyes of a pope, a poet, and a people.

April 20, 2025
April 20, 2025

Deaths in the Mediterranean: Bangladesh's aspirations and Europe’s contradictions

Bangladesh's success and deaths of our migrants in sea depict two realities.