Ankara’s arms and Dhaka’s dilemma on the price of strategic autonomy
The recent visit of Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan to Dhaka has injected fresh momentum into Bangladesh’s defense scene.
The institutionalization ...
Sticks, carrots, and churning outrage
World Environment Day How can we stop choking our environment?
Bangladesh’s welfare policy shifting faces a fiscal reality check
Anti-Gambling Bill could restore sweeping state powers through a new legal route
Tofael Ahmed probably outlived his mistakes…but what legacy he truly had left?
My ordeal with extortion as a cattle trader
Why public execution is no cure for structural violence
Renaming RAB won’t end Bangladesh’s culture of impunity
In Bangladesh, knowledge is never neutral
Across the Global South, especially in countries like Bangladesh that sit at the receiving end of neo-imperial extraction, there is ...
13 May 2026 00:55 AM
The Awami League’s unmaking of Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh
The deification of Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh was never about literature; it was about politics. ...
08 May 2026 18:33 PM
Bangladesh’s most ‘indispensable’ outsider
There are political operators who rise through ideology, and there are bureaucrats who rise through obedience. Then there is Dr ...
07 May 2026 20:26 PM
Bangladesh voted against the inevitable. WB didn’t
The churn of elections in West Bengal has, once again, cast a revealing light across the border, onto Bangladesh—and onto ...
05 May 2026 14:26 PM
The end of the buffer
For decades, West Bengal was the delta where the Hindu-nationalist tide of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) invariably broke. ...
04 May 2026 21:23 PM
Science, sovereignty…and the long game
In Bangladesh, on Tuesday, officials celebrated the loading of uranium fuel at the Rooppur nuclear power plant while in India, ...
29 Apr 2026 16:08 PM
The dangerous pleasure of watching power punish others
Every age invents its own forms of spectatorship. Ours may be the age of punitive entertainment. The viral clip of ...
25 Apr 2026 23:45 PM
The strait that empires misread…..again
History rarely announces its conclusions. It circles and returns, often to the same narrow straits through which empires once rose ...
03 Apr 2026 22:21 PM
The brutal logic behind Bangladesh’s fuel and food lines
Before confronting the spectacle of scarcity, now visible in Bangladesh’s fuel crisis, it is worth recalling a blunt axiom from ...
28 Mar 2026 17:15 PM
Why tragedy repeats itself in Bangladesh
After every fatal accident in Bangladesh, a collapsing structure or a submerged bus, one question returns with unsettling persistence that ...
26 Mar 2026 17:14 PM
Why Bangladesh now feels like a David Lynch film…
After Hiroshima and Nagasaki were reduced to shadows, American military planners confronted an unsettling problem during the Cold War on ...
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