student protest

Empowering women beyond protests

To ensure that contributions from individuals like Nusrat, Prapti, and Dipty are not isolated, we must take concrete steps to empower the next generation of women
27 September 2024, 05:00 AM

What politics for the new generation should look like

Politicians need to start understanding that the loud, unnecessary, intrusive politics that we know today needs to become the politics of the past.
8 September 2024, 12:00 PM

Can the student movement free us from dynastic politics?

The students can help establish a new political party and free the country from the burden of family dynasties.
4 September 2024, 07:00 AM

Students vs society: Why our kids need more than just grades

I’m not here to take sides, but I want to ask: Why are we so quick to question the students when reports started coming in of some crossing the line?
22 August 2024, 09:47 AM

How social media mobilised netizens as vigilantes in a “lawless” country

August 5. The day the student-led mass protests did the unthinkable in toppling the previous regime, with the aspiration to build back the country from the ground up - one brick at a time.
15 August 2024, 03:30 AM

July Revolution and Gen-Z’s march to mass political awareness

Gen-Z have finally become mass aware of their socio-political rights and started to ask for accountability, transparency, and honour.
12 August 2024, 08:18 AM

Lessons learnt: Partisan student politics must be banned

It is deplorable how the previous government did not find it shameful to allow students to be harassed, beaten, and even killed to satisfy political desires.
10 August 2024, 09:00 AM

Protesters gather on SC premises, issue ultimatum to CJ to resign by 1pm

Protesters have issued an ultimatum to Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan and judges of the Appellate Division to resign by 1:00pm today
10 August 2024, 05:53 AM

Rapper-barrister Towfique Ahmed offers legal support to quota reform protesters

As quota reform protesters clashed violently with police and the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) during their "complete shutdown" movement, rapper and barrister Towfique Ahmed announced on Facebook that his law firm would provide assistance to the protesters.
18 July 2024, 13:23 PM

‘I don’t want to go to Dhaka University anymore’

“There is only one life to live— In this lifetime, why should Rajakars have to be seen again?”
16 July 2024, 16:35 PM

World leaders are disconnected from the youth

Student protestors are calling out the double standards of Western powers
24 May 2024, 03:00 AM

Zadie Smith’s rhetorical tricks

Smith’s framing runs into the same blind spot in other criticisms levelled at student protests, i.e. it detaches the student’s cause from the activists, academics, and journalists, Palestinian or otherwise, who have been documenting Israel’s settler colonial project for 75 years.
18 May 2024, 13:17 PM

The war on error

Israel’s occupation of territories and desire to parcel all Palestinians as Arabs to the neighbouring countries have become blatantly clear.
21 October 2023, 02:00 AM

Plains of protest

Students have always been the first to engage in discourses on divisive borders with imagined, imposing lines, language, religion or tradition.
18 October 2023, 01:00 AM

Bogura judge removed for forcing student's mother to touch her feet

Additional District and Sessions Judge Rubaiya Yeasmin has been removed from Bogura and attached to the law ministry for forcing the mother of a student in the district to touch her feet and beg forgiveness
23 March 2023, 12:48 PM

How did Bangladeshi women fare in 2022?

Women's achievements were overshadowed by the gendered inequalities they continue to face
29 December 2022, 20:05 PM

Viqarunnisa students block Mirpur Road

Students and guardians of Viqarunnisa Noon School today blocked Mirpur Road in Dhanmondi-7, following a rumour that the local branch of the renowned institution will be shifted from the area .
11 October 2022, 07:51 AM

Men, lower your gaze and stop judging women

Men must control their own base instincts instead of policing women's clothing.
12 September 2022, 11:11 AM

Why students protesting over women’s clothing is frightening

The general assumption of these protestors seems to be that women dress to solely appease the male gaze.
30 August 2022, 15:28 PM

Protest over delay in seat allotment at CU hall; provost, house tutor confined

Female students of Chittagong University padlocks the gate of Jananetri Sheikh Hasina Hall keeping the provost and house tutors inside demanding immediate publication of seat allotment list.
13 October 2019, 06:44 AM