Badruddin Umar was a giant of Bangladeshi letters. This remembrance outlines his scholarly and intellectual contribution without glossing over his limitations, and mourns the passing of a seminal thinker and historian.
We can have free and fair elections if the political will is there. If the political parties commit to it, then it can happen.
What four students at the university of Chittagong have to say about the Rohingya crisis in 2025
Episode 4 of The J-Z Show unpacks Bangladesh’s political future, dissecting rumors of interim governments and military roles while exposing why conspiracy theories thrive in the absence of trust and transparency.
Bangladesh needs to protect itself and its intellectual property in the age of artificial intelligence. Do our leaders and decision-makers understand what is at stake?
Bangladesh’s model of Rohingya containment is not a temporary holding pattern -- it is politically and economically rewarding for the state. International actors must stop sustaining it.
It is long past due for Biman to start fulfilling its potential and becoming a cornerstone of the Bangladesh development story
An institution can perish through through abdication and silence while the house burns. By every meaningful measure -- the ability to reassure the public, to clarify recruitment, to protect fairness -- the PSC has ceased to function.
Whoever sits in power today must imagine themselves out of power tomorrow. If they cannot accept that thought, then their governance is not democracy but monarchy in disguise.
The roots of this violence lie in the lame-duck interim government’s refusal to do the hard thing first: clean the stables. More than a year into its tenure, we have endured announcements in place of reform and committees in place of consequences.
What happens when the interests of the elite class collide with those of an ever more assertive aspiring elite? We're about to find out.
1971 built a nation from nothing. 2024 has given us a chance to repair it. Independence is absolute; democratic reform is fragile.
History does not present Ziaur Rahman as a schemer, clawing for power. It confronted him with moments when silence or paralysis threatened to suffocate the Bangladeshi people. Each time, he stepped forward because no one else would.
We are already behind, but it is not too late and it need not continue to be that way. AI can help Bangladesh take a quantum leap into the future.
Episode 3 of The J-Z Show confronts Bangladesh’s “history wars,” asking whether the nation can ever move beyond the divides born of 15 August 1975.
