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I have had a thousand criticisms, but with an objective lens, you can’t possibly find another government in Bangladesh that has worked like a private enterprise, with specific, measurable indicators to assess performance

The PM’s apology on energy crisis is welcome. But Bangladesh needs much more

10 Sep 2026

More than a decade after recognition and the extension of electoral and other rights, there is still no systematic record of how members of the Hijra community are dying

When people from the Hijra community die, who keeps track of these deaths?

10 Sep 2026

Driven by economic necessity and shaped by a matriarchal culture, generations of Garo women, like Bani Rema, have turned beauty parlours into pathways of independence.

How the beauty parlours give Garo women a way out...and way up

08 Sep 2026

Whether or not Irfan suffered the abuses he is claimed to have suffered, what interests me is the social trend of this particular type of abuse and the structure that produces and sustains it

How the ‘middle-class’ husband lost his place

07 Sep 2026

Ramani Kanta with his pupils inside a temple courtyard

For 55 years, he has taught a village for free

07 Sep 2026

Tomy died around noon at a veterinary clinic after complications following surgery to remove a tumour. He was 10 years old

The dog a slice of Old Dhaka called its own

06 Sep 2026

A convoy carrying leaders and activists of the Jamaat-led 11-party alliance during thier "Long March" programme on September 5, 2026. Toll collections at the Meghna and Meghna-Gumti bridges put the convoy at roughly six hundred vehicles.

Long march, or long drive?

06 Sep 2026

The wrong way to correct and to defend Sifat Abdullah

The wrong way to correct and to defend Sifat Abdullah

05 Sep 2026

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