If our leaders want to know where this road leads, they do not need to look far. Pakistan chose the path of appeasing extremists. The consequences have been catastrophic.
Fully 62% feel positive and hopeful about Bangladesh’s future. This is the hope that gives Bangladesh a second chance. But hope, must be met with policy, leadership, and delivery. When young people stop trusting the system, they change it.
The real challenge is separation: Can parties driven by faith transform national strength without narrowing citizenship to lines of belief?
If you attend these festivals, you owe it to yourself and to Dhaka to also step outside the gates. Don't be someone who celebrates local and artisanal only when it's packaged with a price tag and a velvet rope. Don't be someone who feels cultured because you paid for the privilege.
Until democracy regains its moral soul -- until citizens can question without fear and leaders can lose power without vengeance -- it will remain a performance, not a principle. And if this performance continues, one morning we will awaken to discover that democracy has quietly turned into its opposite.
The conventional view of politics is an old-fashioned journey
The choice lies with us -- the collective will of the people across all sections of society. The coming months, leading up to the election, will determine which road Bangladesh takes.
A nation’s worth is not measured in kilometers of rail, but in how it values those who walk beneath them. When a government can proudly announce five lakh taka for a death it caused, it tells us not how poor the country is, but how impoverished its conscience has become.
The damage is not only ethical but psychological. Once the collective mind learns to justify wrongdoing as survival, no institution can function. Our tragedy is not that we lack intelligence, but that we misuse it. We have mistaken cunning for cleverness and substituted wisdom with opportunism.
Without proper planning, scientific implementation, public engagement, and addressing the root causes of deforestation, the pledge to plant 250 million trees will not succeed
The army as an institution must not be tainted by the criminal misdeeds of a few. Those officers betrayed their sacred oath -- service before self, death before dishonour.
Traffic accidents and the devastation they wreak are not inevitable. We can fix this problem, if we have the will.
Each missing gun is a potential shooting at a street corner, a robbery, a killing. As national elections approach, the fear is not hypothetical. It is Chekhov’s gun multiplied by a thousand: if a weapon hangs on the wall in Act I, it must go off by Act III. And Act III is the election.
To protect shrines is to protect a vision of Islam that is inclusive, creative, and rooted in ordinary life. The riddle of the shrine attacks is solved only when we see that the real threat is not just the loss of Hindu-Muslim peace, but the erosion of Muslim-Muslim coexistence.
At SUST, Bangladesh has chosen to forget Jahanara Imam. It has chosen to betray its mother to appease its murderers. It has chosen to sanctify cowardice with religion. The dormitory that should have carried her name now bears the name of a saint, not because the country lacks martyrs, but because it lacks the courage to honor them.
What four students at the university of Chittagong have to say about the Rohingya crisis in 2025
