Bangladesh’s Next Development Chapter Must Start with Health
Strengthening healthcare services means investing in frontline workers, improving facility readiness, ensuring reliable supplies of essential medicines, and better integrating services across the continuum of care.
Armed in History, Unarmed in Memory
Women were not mere supporters; they were shapers of conditions, bearers of risk, and, in many cases, decisive actors. The war cannot be imagined without them, but its written history has often proceeded as though it could.
After the Oil Crisis, We Go Back to Sleep
Bangladesh is not short of clever people or workable ideas. What we are short of is institutional willingness to treat a crisis as something other than an inconvenience to be weathered.
Bangladesh’s Next Development Chapter Must Start with Health
Strengthening healthcare services means investing in frontline workers, improving facility readiness, ensuring reliable supplies of essential medicines, and better integrating services across the continuum of care.
After the Oil Crisis, We Go Back to Sleep
Bangladesh is not short of clever people or workable ideas. What we are short of is institutional willingness to treat a crisis as something other than an inconvenience to be weathered.
Theatre of the Streets: How Bangladesh Mistakes Performance for Governance
Albert Camus wrote that we must imagine Sisyphus happy but for those caught in Bangladesh’s cycles of performative governance, happiness is not the point. Each new deadline, each “operation,” each raid is a boulder pushed up the hill. The problem rolls back down, and we begin again.
Democracy Without Teeth
Ensuring accountability is the key, and a state cannot design a system, cannot create an institutional design where the only protection is a party's or an individual’s goodwill. A state’s guiding operational principle cannot be to be ruled by the angels.
Myanmar’s Civil War and the Expanding Shadow of Global Rivalry
Myanmar stands as a stark reminder that in today’s world, geography is destiny only until strategy intervenes
Behind Sufism and Politics
A class of divinely chosen people has the power, endowed by God, to read the esoteric meaning of the Quran and the capacity to guide their own path and that of their followers to connect to the ultimate reality through a mystic journey, which is the foundation of the doctrine of Sufism.
Where Is the Plan to Revive the Economy?
Bangladesh now needs a clear economic roadmap and renewed emphasis on economic and energy diplomacy.
Can Bangladesh Resurrect Saarc?
Reviving Saarc is a Sisyphean task, but it is one Bangladesh is uniquely positioned to undertake. In a world of hardening blocs, South Asia cannot afford to be the only region without a voice.
From Collateral to Customers: Rethinking Capital Allocation in Bangladesh
The country has already demonstrated remarkable resilience and creativity in its economic journey -- from garments to remittances to microfinance. The next chapter will require an equally bold shift in how capital is allocated.
Armed in History, Unarmed in Memory
Women were not mere supporters; they were shapers of conditions, bearers of risk, and, in many cases, decisive actors. The war cannot be imagined without them, but its written history has often proceeded as though it could.
Patriotism is Democracy’s Strongest Glue
A stronger Bangladesh will not emerge overnight. But with patriotism and civility, it will rise -- steadily, confidently, and together. To the conscious citizens of Bangladesh: This is your moment. Do not wait for perfect leaders or ideal conditions. Be the example. Act locally. Think nationally. Stand firmly for honesty and integrity, nurture skills, and practise good manners persistently.
When Leadership Shares the Road
Sometimes the most revealing view of a country is not from above, but from within the flow of its everyday life
The Delusion of History for the Children of the West
The endurance to hardship, spirit and skills to fight when forced, maturity to restrain, legacy of history to forge their own system of governance rather than blindly copy from the West, are the forte of these old but rich civilizations. They enrich their people not only with their own histories but also with the warring histories of the West, so that they can choose the good from the bad.
How More Bangladeshi Students can get to the US
The goal is to have a unified and cohesive story, an antithesis to the common phenomenon of students accumulating certificates like trophies, so that when they finally face their goal, the student does not essentially become a detriment to the system.
What the Interim Government Gave Bangladesh
What Dr. Yunus and his team of advisers stepped into was not a functioning state awaiting a caretaker, it was institutional wreckage requiring reconstruction. What followed was a period of institution-building that, whatever its imperfections, deserves recognition.
