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Satellite images show the glacial collapse on the North Face of Langtang was in Nepal itself
The Gothic leaves us with that uncomfortable space between sympathy and fear. Its women linger there, neither innocent nor monstrous, but painfully human.
In Bierce's world, Hastur watches over the shepherds. In Chambers' world, the same name is bound to the Yellow Sign, a mark that spreads corruption to anyone who looks at it for too long.
Wrath can be inherited, provoked by confinement, born from obsession, hidden beneath good manners or turned against oneself.
Giving a woman a corner of the bus and giving her control of the direction of the entire bus are not the same politics. Today her passengers may be women. Tomorrow everyone may be on board.
In Episode 09 of Counterpoint with Zafar Sobhan, Zafar Sobhan is joined by Md. Rubaiyath Sarwar to discuss Bangladesh’s first Doppler Poll. The conversation explores what the survey reveals, how its methodology and findings differ from other polls, and what the numbers tell us about public opinion.
Bangladesh stands at an energy crossroads. By pairing modern financial risk management, diversified onshore infrastructure, and long-term producer partnerships with free-market structural reforms, the nation can move past recurring energy crises and build a resilient foundation for future economic growth.
A river does not recognize a border. A bird carries no passport. The wind requires no visa. Seeds do not stop at lines drawn on human maps. An elephant does not know which hill belongs to Bangladesh, which to India, which to Myanmar.
Limited access to funding, mentorship, and training is also a persistent challenge, especially outside major cities.
The Mecca Agreement will be remembered less as a wartime alliance against a weakened Iran and more as the founding document of a new, durable axis within the Muslim world, one whose rivalries with Israel, the UAE and India will define regional politics for a generation.
The value of a 180-day plan lies precisely in BNP's ability to make the early report card meaningful. If the clock was started by BNP itself, it cannot now complain that citizens are watching it.
The exchange has never run one way. Bangladeshi karatekas train to standards set in Tokyo. Instructors who came as visitors, stayed close to the country for the rest of their careers. What began as instruction became friendship.
Is coercive moral policing becoming normalized in Bangladesh’s public sphere?
But for the first time, the ghosts of Dhanmondi 32 have found a voice in a court of law. The question now is whether the system will listen -- or whether this too will become another act in the long-running performance of impunity.
The least we owe her is the same chance we have always extended to men with far worse track records. If we spent even a fraction of the energy currently aimed at her job title on the officers who signed off on S Alam's loans, we might actually get somewhere.
Bangladesh’s possible entry into the Mecca Pact would be a consequential foreign-policy decision, testing whether the BNP government can translate its “Bangladesh First” policy into a strategic and politically sustainable choice.
