Bangladesh’s digital payment revolution
As full interoperability launches on November 1, 2025, Bangladesh stands on the verge of its most transformative financial reform since the birth of mobile money, one that could turn inefficiency into inclusion and cash into data-driven growth.
22 October 2025, 18:42 PM
Ordeals of a July uprising warrior / ‘Protesters are not given medical care here’
How a July warrior was denied immediate medical care.
27 July 2025, 07:00 AM
Battle for the last word on the July uprising
Bangladeshis under Hasina’s regime suffered on two levels: physical and epistemic/cognitive/perceptual.
25 July 2025, 10:00 AM
Are Bangladeshis anti-Indian?
To understand the recent surge of so-called anti-Indian views among Bangladeshis, we need to examine the misrule that shipwrecked their country.
19 April 2025, 08:41 AM
Char dakhal in art and politics
The proverbial practice of char dakhal has now extended to politics in the form of chandabaji (money extortion) as a metaphor for criminal greed.
22 March 2025, 10:00 AM
ESSAY / 'A terrible beauty is born' in Gaza and West Bank
Pre-occupation Palestine had, to use Anglo-American poet WH Auden's words, "marble well-governed cities" full of "vines and olive trees." But Israel and its allies have turned it into "an artificial wilderness"
12 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Gender and spirituality: Role of men and women in Ramadan
Transforming Ramadan from a month of fasting into one of feasting and then forcing women to cook extravagant meals ruins the purpose of the holy month.
9 March 2025, 10:00 AM
Palestine: A large Victorian workhouse?
The Zionist blueprint for Palestine resonates with the strategy of the workhouse authorities of Victorian England.
21 February 2025, 10:30 AM
Violence against students: A tribute to our little John Hampdens
Students who were shot dead and injured were simply exercising their democratic rights and posed no threat to anybody.
4 August 2024, 04:00 AM
Of professors and publications
There are fundamental issues in the way academics in some countries are promoted to professorship.
24 June 2024, 04:00 AM
When will the US gain ‘independence’ from Israel?
Authorities in the US are eroding long-established principles and values in order to support Israel’s apartheid rule.
9 June 2024, 09:22 AM
Charles Dickens, colonialism, and the slave trade
Time has not forgiven him for his racist and imperialist views
2 June 2024, 13:45 PM
Is a PhD degree for prestige alone?
The number of PhD holders is on the rise, but the quality and intensity of research and knowledge production are not.
6 May 2024, 03:00 AM
This Ramadan, let's reduce food waste
What we see at the end of iftar parties are big piles of food waste and plastic pollution—not good for the environment or for the spiritual well-being of those who are involved in such practices.
13 March 2024, 01:00 AM
The world in the eyes of Palestinian children
Many of the surviving children in Palestine, especially those in Gaza, have no idea why they have been attacked and killed day in and day out.
28 February 2024, 03:00 AM
A country drifting into political paralysis
Ali Riaz sadly observes that the country is fast drifting into a political paralysis and descending into the abyss of authoritarianism, while maintaining a democratic facade.
16 January 2024, 14:00 PM
A civility test between Israelis and Palestinians
As opposed to the negative and pejorative assumptions about Palestinians, Israelis are routinely described as civilised and democratic.
7 December 2023, 03:00 AM
Israel-Palestine issue: Governments and media insult citizens’ intelligence
Readers may remember an incident at the 2011 G20 summit that took place in the French city of Cannes. The then US President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy were having an informal conversation in between summit sessions.
30 October 2023, 11:00 AM
Sharenting and how it violates our children’s rights
All children on Earth are entitled to the right to privacy, and we must respect it, be it offline or online.
6 July 2023, 03:00 AM
The rhetoric of 'it happens' and whataboutism in political apologia
To use previous incidents of human rights violations to condone those of the present is hypocrisy and a macabre mockery of the past and present victims.
9 January 2023, 15:30 PM
Sajid’s and Sourodip’s victory: To debate or not to debate
A good occasion of national pride and celebration for us as Bangladeshis. But we were not sufficiently thrilled.
5 August 2022, 11:18 AM
Thoughts on Sajid’s and Sourodip’s victory
Two university students have made Bangladesh the first Asian country to win the World Universities Debating Championships. Will this stunning rhetorical feat spark the spirit of debate in our society?
4 August 2022, 13:30 PM