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.
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.
We Must Make BIG-B Work for Bangladesh Primarily
Before extending BIG-B to India, outstanding bilateral issues must be addressed through meaningful dialogue and mutually acceptable arrangements. We must not grant strategic advantages first and hope for reciprocal cooperation later.
Why Institutional Trust Matters for Investment in Bangladesh
Bangladesh's capacity to attract the necessary investment for its forthcoming development phase will depend in part on whether investors trust the implicit contract.
Building Smart Cities in Bangladesh
Given the critical importance of smart city projects, Bangladesh should adopt rigorous technical standards and transparent procurement processes, prioritizing experienced technology providers and system integrators with proven expertise in large-scale smart city deployments.
The Meme as a Molotov Cocktail
The Pink Panther protester is no longer simply a person in a costume. He is a symbolic event, detached from the specific context of pension reform or fuel prices, circulating globally as a meme and a joke.
The Limits of Legacy Politics
Parties must therefore distinguish between loyalty and indulgence. Genuine loyalty involves correcting a colleague before misconduct becomes a public embarrassment. It requires transparent disciplinary procedures, consistent standards and a willingness to place institutional credibility above personal relationships.
Justice Without Independence?
How the lack of independence undermined Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal -- and why the ICC may have offered a more credible path. This is Part Two of a series on the International Crimes Tribunal.
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.
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.
India Under the Scanner: Justice, Equality, and the Question of Caste
The Committee has also objected to the exemption granted to projects related to "national security" from the consultation process under the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act.
The Machine We Build May Be Smarter Than Us
Humanity has spent centuries learning to control dangerous technologies it built for itself. AI is the newest version of that old problem and potentially the most difficult because the thing we're trying to control may eventually be better than us at understanding the systems around it.
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.
The Promise and Peril of AI
Should the world surrender to the illusory ideas of these Jesus-like tech giants that the algorithms will know better than human beings to run the world? Should we surrender human intelligence to machine-driven superintelligence? Should consciousness be subjugated by intelligence for technological development, with little regard for human civilization?
Our Misplaced Priorities in South Asia
Treating such risks as specialist environmental concerns leaves the main political conversation disconnected from the foundations of national stability.
