Opinion

In light of Bengal’s anticolonial struggles

IN 2008, during my tenure with the University of Dhaka, I had a three-month postdoctoral fellowship at the Forum on Contemporary Theory in Baroda, India. I made friends with some ReadMore

Power cuts, road chaos mar rural Eid

EID-UL-AZHA was supposed to be a time of festive reunion. For a large majority in Bangladesh, it was a time of real suffering, discomfort, and frustration — long hours of

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Hidden climate bank beneath soil

CLIMATE change is usually discussed through cyclones, river erosion, salinity intrusion, floods and heat stress. Far less attention is given to the quiet climate story beneath the soil. Yet, the

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Why is Bangladesh a death trap for children today?

Have we completely forgotten these lines from poet Sukanta Bhattacharya’s poem Chharpatra (The Clearance)? In this country now, children are the most unprotected and unsafe. On one hand, the procession

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A Dissection of an Interview

Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, currently living in self-imposed exile in India, has said in an email interview with Hindustan Times that she will return to Bangladesh “very soon”. Bangladesh,

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