She comes from Barisal, from a home where cricket wasn’t supposed to be a daughter’s dream.

Tarique Rahman says on International Day of the Girl Child

Be loud. Be messy. Be too much. Your existence is not an apology -- it is an announcement

It still feels like yesterday. It was a March evening in 2017. I stood outside the labour room -- anxious, restless, and counting the seconds.

To be a girl means being silent while our world is burning.

The systemic barriers that hinder girls’ pursuit of education have continued to remain deeply ingrained in our society.

How many women or girls in our country get the opportunity to chase their dreams?

International Day of the Girl Child (IDGC), is commemorated on October 11 every year, to highlight the challenges girls face, promote their empowerment and fulfil their human rights.

There is something very beautiful about being in transition, being stuck in between. Whether it's in transit at an airport, a city that's somewhere between the east and the west, dawn or dusk, when the day is either deciding on a beginning or an end, or a woman in her adolescence, on the journey to transforming into a woman from a child.