“They may not be graduates yet. There's a long way to go for that, but in their hearts they are graduates,” she said, beaming with pride for each one of those students.
A democracy cannot ask citizens to trust the ballot while treating one of their ballots as optional. The government received its mandate from the people. The July Charter received its mandate from the people as well. Both must be honored.
Nepal is owed something more substantial than sympathy and more useful than a loan charging interest on damage it did not cause. Monitoring of unstable ice and glacial lakes concerns the whole basin and should be funded on a standing basis, with hydrological data crossing borders as a matter of routine rather than negotiation.
July’s azadi was powerful because it was capacious. It united people who agreed on the regime they opposed but not necessarily on the republic they wished to build.
Somewhere between those two narratives, Ganapati, Pritilata, Agami and Ayush risk ceasing to be four human beings and becoming evidence for somebody else’s political story.
Patriarchy does not survive only because men consciously decide to oppress women. It survives because its norms can become embedded in families, institutions, communities and individual beliefs, including the beliefs of women themselves.
Our loyalty belongs strictly to Bangladesh, to our rivers, to our workers, to our ecology, to our farmers, to our reforestation, and to our children. It is time to discard every foreign proxy and forge a new political vocabulary
The state has a responsibility to protect victims and punish offenders. It has an equally important responsibility to protect people from arbitrary or prolonged detention.
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Taken together, the visual, linguistic, and material evidence suggests that this folio preserves a rare intellectual milieu in which Persianate and Indic traditions were not experienced as competing systems, but as complementary vocabularies for describing the soul’s ethical journey.
Youth policy cannot simply mean another training activity, another freelancing scheme, a few youth forum talks, or loan access workshops that fail to simplify capital for young entrepreneurs.
No one could have predicted this disaster would happen when it did, but we all knew it would happen one day.
The water cycle is the planet's great equalizer. We have forgotten this. The flood is a brutal reminder.
The ultimate test should be simple: Does membership enhance Bangladesh's security, economic interests and diplomatic leverage while preserving its freedom to make independent decisions? If the answer is yes, the pact deserves serious consideration. If it threatens strategic autonomy, caution should prevail.
To remain silent under the pretext of “not being close enough” is not humility. It is an abdication of awareness. The burden of witnessing belongs to anyone willing to look.
Not only did Mr. Alamgir represent a big obstacle for the right-wing network in their pursuit of power and rent but he was also a prominent face of the liberal democratic elite. He is also an obstacle in the spreading of right-wing influences within the BNP.
If filmmaking were simply the execution of something that already existed perfectly inside the director’s head, then perhaps the people around the director could be interchangeable. But I do not believe they are. The collective resonance of the actor and crew establishes a soul to the cinema.
