BANGLADESH is at a turning point when it comes to the future of its media environment. The focus has moved away from questioning whether there is press freedom in Bangladesh to how the form will evolve in the coming decade. Technology...
PRESS freedom is often invoked as a badge of democratic legitimacy and governments routinely affirm their commitment to a free press, placing it at the centre of constitutional guarantees and international pledges. Yet the lived reality of journalism...
BANGLADESH was not born gently in 1971. Nations rarely are. Ours emerged amid the smoke of burned villages, the dull thunder of artillery and the nervous crackle of radios carrying rebellion across a frightened countryside. Independence did not arrive as a constitutional gift; it was wrested from the wreckage of a collapsing state by men and women who decided...
BANGLADESH is celebrating its 55th anniversary of independence as a nation, and it’s time to ask: Are the people of Bangladesh free and independent? There is no doubt that the people of Bangladesh are free as a nation. This identity stems from the international fact that Bangladesh has been an independent nation-state recognised by the world since 1971....
‘TELL me something,’ a friend asked over tea in Winnipeg, Canada, recently, stirring his cup like it contained the secrets of the republic, ‘are we still the same country that was born in 1971?’...
AS BANGLADESH marks the 55th anniversary of its independence, the country once again finds itself reflecting on the future of its democracy. Political transitions, debates about governance, and calls for institutional reform have become central to public discussion. Yet amid these conversations, one issue remains surprisingly underexplored: conflict of interest...
SOUTH Asia is entering another phase of geopolitical recalibration. Domestic political changes, shifting economic networks and evolving security dynamics are reshaping the strategic landscape of the region. Few bilateral relationships illustrate these transformations more clearly than that between Bangladesh and India. Bound by geography yet often divided by...
FOLLOWING the July revolution, nothing remains the same in Bangladesh...
26 MARCH — Bangladesh’s National Independence Day — feels especially significant in 2026. After the dangers of protracted autocracy, we have returned to the promises of democracy. Yet the day is also a time for deep, sober, and clear-eyed reflection by the government and people from all walks of life...
THERE is a particular grief that has no name in English but lives in the bones of every Bangladeshi who has watched someone they carried on their shoulders — whose photograph hung in their tea shop, whose name their children chanted — turn around and look at them as though they are a problem to be managed. This is not the grief of defeat. Defeat you can live...
MORE than five decades have passed since Bangladesh emerged as a distinct, independent state. And yet the soil of Bangladesh remains drenched in blood — flagrantly, relentlessly, and with a terrifying continuity that mocks the very promise of independence. It is the blood of workers and peasants, of women and children, of ethnic and religious minorities — of those...
