Alisha Pradhan is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, media personality, and businesswoman. She is the founding CEO of HerNet TV, secretary-general of HerNet Foundation, and Chief Curator of HerNet Fine Arts.
That creates a peculiar social paradox: The more accomplished a woman becomes, the more selective the marriage market can become -- not because her value diminishes, but because the available configurations change.
Bangladesh does not need another generation that merely knows how to speak about religion, culture, patriotism, or morality. Perhaps we need a generation that knows how to live them. And perhaps that is where the real Bangladesh begins.
America rises not when it restricts, but when it welcomes. So will America again evolve as the land of many voices? Its future, and perhaps much of the world’s, depends on this answer. For America is not merely a country. It is a covenant.
An evidence-led appraisal of one year of Bangladesh’s interim government