How to Fix Bangladesh-India Relations
Bangladesh does not seek to become India's rival. It seeks a friendly relationship that preserves its dignity, security and right to development. India’s legitimate security concerns and aspirations for prosperity must likewise be taken into account by Bangladesh.
When AI Turns Faces Into Weapons
Artificial intelligence cannot be stopped, and synthetic media tools will become more complex, available, and similar to real-world experiences than ever before.
The Right to Contest
What matters is not whether the chairman holds more certificates than the person waiting. It is whether he understands what his signature authorizes, what delay may cost, and the responsibility that came with the chair.
How to Fix Bangladesh-India Relations
Bangladesh does not seek to become India's rival. It seeks a friendly relationship that preserves its dignity, security and right to development. India’s legitimate security concerns and aspirations for prosperity must likewise be taken into account by Bangladesh.
We Need To Fix Our Healthcare System. This Isn't How.
More than 50 years after independence, we should be able to do better than wait for the next crisis before fixing the part of the health system that has already failed.
Who Should Pay for Bangladesh’s Losses?
The official agenda of COP31 must feature comprehensive reporting on the Loss and Damage Fund to track how much money was deposited, distributed, and actually delivered to affected people.
The Right to Contest
What matters is not whether the chairman holds more certificates than the person waiting. It is whether he understands what his signature authorizes, what delay may cost, and the responsibility that came with the chair.
The Limits of American Power in Iran
Tehran’s ability to use the strait as leverage does not make it legitimate to hold other economies hostage. The same scrutiny belongs on Washington’s language about destroying a country.
The American People Make Their Voice Heard
A mandate is not an entitlement, it is an opportunity. This is what defines American democracy.
Bangladesh Must Become a Destination of Choice for Business and Investment
The time has come to make Bangladesh not merely a country of investment opportunities, but a country where businesses are welcomed, honest entrepreneurs are supported, investment is protected, and opportunities can be realized with confidence, efficiency, and dignity.
Trapped Owners, Squeezed Workers: Why the RMG Crisis Needs a Structural Fix
Does Bangladesh really need more than 2,000 garment factories? A smaller number of larger, stronger firms would serve the country, its workers, and its economy far better.
The LDC Reprieve Bangladesh Cannot Afford to Waste
A trade agreement is of little use to a factory that sits idle for lack of gas, so a credible plan for industrial power supply belongs at the heart of the graduation strategy rather than in a separate ministry's file.
Intelligence Is Not Wisdom
Civilizations do not decline simply because they cease to be intelligent. They may decline because their intelligence serves ambition without restraint, power without accountability or innovation without foresight.
The Unending Spectacle of Pori Moni and Bangladesh's Theatre of Digital Morality
Pori Moni has spoken in the past about social media posts and personal moments being weaponized against her, about her child's photographs attracting hatred.
The Life We Never Chose Is Still Talking to Us
It is about learning to live meaningfully despite the choices we can never verify. There will always be another version of ourselves somewhere in the imagination: The one who moved, stayed, married, left, studied something else, took the opportunity or refused it.
When AI Turns Faces Into Weapons
Artificial intelligence cannot be stopped, and synthetic media tools will become more complex, available, and similar to real-world experiences than ever before.
How the Media Created Trump
The world may have to wait a while to see the media return to its noble role as a societal watchdog, rather than the twisted role of entertaining global readers and viewers with recurring news about pandemics like Trump.
The Audacity of Truth: Mahatma Gandhi’s Idealism in the Age of Expediency
Mahatma Gandhi reminds the leaders of our generation that the true health of a nation or a country’s success is not measured or judged by its financial wealth or by the growth of its richest citizens, but by the safety, dignity, and care it provides to its poorest and most vulnerable people.
