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Is It Time for Bangladesh to Look Beyond the Dollar?

Is It Time for Bangladesh to Look Beyond the ...

The Shifting Power Landscape in the Middle East

The Shifting Power Landscape in the Middle East

The Culture of Cunning

The Culture of Cunning

H.M. Nazmul Alam

11 Things You Need to Know About Enforced Disappearances and the Detention of Army Officers

11 Things You Need to Know About Enforced Dis...

A Question of Trust

A Question of Trust

Rezaul Karim, Jubayer Rahman, and Mohammad Sorowar Hossain

India’s Foreign Policy and the Game Theory of Power

India’s Foreign Policy and the Game Theory of...

The Impossible Yes/No Binary

The Impossible Yes/No Binary

Syed Hasibuddin Hussain

Dignity for Victims, Respect for the Armed Forces of Bangladesh

Dignity for Victims, Respect for the Armed Fo...

The Shifting Power Landscape in the Middle East

The Shifting Power Landscape in the Middle East

A Nation in Denial and the Dramatization of Politics

A Nation in Denial and the Dramatization of P...

Why So Serious, NCP?

Why So Serious, NCP?

H.M. Nazmul Alam

When Reform Becomes Shortcut: NCP’s PR Gamble

When Reform Becomes Shortcut: NCP’s PR Gamble

Kawsar Chowdhury

Is It Time for Bangladesh to Look Beyond the Dollar?

Is It Time for Bangladesh to Look Beyond the ...

An Economy for Every Bangladeshi: Reforming with Purpose

An Economy for Every Bangladeshi: Reforming w...

Mohammad Masud Alam and Habib Siddiqui

The Economic Outlook Facing the Next Government

The Economic Outlook Facing the Next Government

Governing by Announcement

Governing by Announcement

The Culture of Cunning

The Culture of Cunning

H.M. Nazmul Alam

Taking Greening Bangladesh Seriously

Taking Greening Bangladesh Seriously

Faysal Kabir Shuvo

What Makes a Soldier? The Bangladesh Army Faces a Moral Catharsis

What Makes a Soldier? The Bangladesh Army Fac...

Ashraf Ud Doula

The Orchestrated Crash: Why Bangladesh’s Roads Are a Laboratory of Chaos

The Orchestrated Crash: Why Bangladesh’s Road...

11 Things You Need to Know About Enforced Disappearances and the Detention of Army Officers

11 Things You Need to Know About Enforced Dis...

We Need a National Artificial Intelligence Policy

We Need a National Artificial Intelligence Po...

An Open Letter to WHO: You Knew Who Her Mother Was. Why Did You Wait?

An Open Letter to WHO: You Knew Who Her Mothe...

Of July and Revolutions

Of July and Revolutions

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Understanding Bangladesh’s Post-Uprising Reality

Understanding Bangladesh’s Post-Uprising Reality

MD. Zarif Rahman and Opshora Islam Tondra

Khaleda Zia and the Hardest Revolution of All

Khaleda Zia and the Hardest Revolution of All

Soundtrack for the Apocalypse: A Dhaka Gridlock Playlist

Soundtrack for the Apocalypse: A Dhaka Gridlo...

Subaltern Women and the Islamic Feminist Turn

Subaltern Women and the Islamic Feminist Turn

Sharin Shajahan Naomi

Subaltern Women and the Islamic Feminist Turn

Subaltern Women and the Islamic Feminist Turn

Sharin Shajahan Naomi

The Road to Net-Zero

The Road to Net-Zero

Rethinking Bangladesh’s Rohingya Response

Rethinking Bangladesh’s Rohingya Response

Is the Bangladesh Public Service Commission Dead?

Is the Bangladesh Public Service Commission D...

What Bangladesh Can Learn from Dr. Jane Goodall

What Bangladesh Can Learn from Dr. Jane Goodall

Mir Aftabuddin Ahmed

Your Home in the Sky and the House in Disarray

Your Home in the Sky and the House in Disarray

August 3: The Gulshan Protest

August 3: The Gulshan Protest

Md. Rubaiyath Sarwar

Ben Stokes’s Leadership is the Cornerstone of a Fearless England

Ben Stokes’s Leadership is the Cornerstone of...

Khaleda Zia and the Hardest Revolution of All

Khaleda Zia and the Hardest Revolution of All

Clutching at Straws: Who Should be Deemed Electable in the New Bangladesh?

Clutching at Straws: Who Should be Deemed Ele...

What the Innovision Poll Says and What It Doesn't

What the Innovision Poll Says and What It Doe...

Md. Rubaiyath Sarwar

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and Everything in Between

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and Everything i...

Junayed Chowdhury

Tariff Relief or Strategic Trade-Off?

Tariff Relief or Strategic Trade-Off?

H.M. Nazmul Alam

Bangladesh Bank Is What Needs Reform

Bangladesh Bank Is What Needs Reform

Productivity Is Almost Everything

Productivity Is Almost Everything

Syed Akhtar Mahmood

How Can We Revive Bangladesh’s Capital Markets?

How Can We Revive Bangladesh’s Capital Markets?

Soundtrack for the Apocalypse: A Dhaka Gridlock Playlist

Soundtrack for the Apocalypse: A Dhaka Gridlo...

When Bangladesh’s Demographic Dividend Turns Into a Curse

When Bangladesh’s Demographic Dividend Turns ...

In Defence of the Word Unspoken

In Defence of the Word Unspoken

H.M. Nazmul Alam

Revisiting 1971: Divergent Histories and the Responsibility of Re-reading

Revisiting 1971: Divergent Histories and the ...

Streets of Conscience

Streets of Conscience

Keeping the Faith

Keeping the Faith

When Propaganda Meets Corpses: Counting the Dead of 1971

When Propaganda Meets Corpses: Counting the D...

Kawsar Chowdhury

Thank you, Sister Joann

Thank you, Sister Joann

When Propaganda Meets Corpses: Counting the Dead of 1971

When Propaganda Meets Corpses: Counting the D...

Kawsar Chowdhury

Thank you, Sister Joann

Thank you, Sister Joann

Death of a Local Hero

Death of a Local Hero

Shafiqur Rahman

Adventures On A Train Ride Across Bangladesh

Adventures On A Train Ride Across Bangladesh

Tamim Choudhury

What Can Bangladesh Learn from Singapore?

What Can Bangladesh Learn from Singapore?

Preserving Our Heritage From the Bengal Sultanate

Preserving Our Heritage From the Bengal Sulta...

Tamim Choudhury

Who Will Pay Bangladesh?

Who Will Pay Bangladesh?

A Return to Roots

A Return to Roots

A metaphorical presence

A metaphorical presence

The J-Z Show।Ep. 6।Jon & Zafar talk with Nakibur Rahman on UNGA at New York, DUCSU & Innovision Poll

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Straight Talk With Zafar Sobhan | Md Rubaiyath Sarwar

Straight Talk With Zafar Sobhan | Md Rubaiyat...

The J-Z Show। Ep. 5। Gen Z Revolution in Nepal

The J-Z Show। Ep. 5। Gen Z Revolution in Nepal

The J-Z Show। Ep. 4। Election, Interim Government and the Army

The J-Z Show। Ep. 4। Election, Interim Govern...

The J-Z Show। Ep. 3। Can we ever get out of history wars?

The J-Z Show। Ep. 3। Can we ever get out of h...

Interview with Khalid Quadir

Interview with Khalid Quadir

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Teknaf to Tetulia

Teknaf to Tetulia

Teknaf to Tetulia

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