History shows how the “woman question”, “indigenous question”, “transgender question”, and “disabled question” get subsumed in the midst of dominant voices

Last week’s political violence in Bangladesh was by far the worst I have seen since I first visited and fell in love with this country 15 years ago.

Why did the situation escalate last week, resulting in so many deaths and injuries?

Risk assessments of the kind done by the IMF are not usually done by the government, although it would have been desirable.

Is it not easier to defeat your enemies in parliament than to be permanently on the warpath against some shapeshifting enemy?

The infiltrators were handed the opportunity on a silver platter the moment BCL ensured that violence took over the movement.

While the micro and messo levels of losses are immediate and short term, macro level losses would be medium to long term.

The government wasted time while the violence continued.

As a grandchild of a freedom fighter, I would have felt ashamed to use the quota after so many lost their lives over this issue.

It is critical that there should be proper accounting for who authorised this kind of use of force, which has been excessive and disproportionate

Since 2019, a staggering 5,619 students have lost their lives on our roads

Since FY2022, actual export earnings emerging from the banking sector data were significantly lower than the figures reported by the EPB.

The cloud of dystopia thickens as public perception connects the dotted line between pervasive corruption, greed, inefficiency and ineptitude.

The students’ awakening was unsurprising for those with some political sensibility left.

Inflation, which erodes the purchasing power for consumers as well as businesses, happens in two ways.

The government handled the issue from an egoistic stance, and made several wrong decisions while tackling the situation

It is a special kind of horror to see the semi-abstract theories you studied for your semi-abstract major come to life, and begin to apply to events 20 minutes away from you.

The Appellate Division verdict of July 21 has opened the scope for resolution of the main issue around the demands coming from the quota reform movement.

There was smoke everywhere, and I heard gunshots.

What is happening in Bangladesh right now is truly unfathomable.