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Is There Damage Below the Boat's Waterline?

Is There Damage Below the Boat's Waterline?

A Tale of Two Slogans

A Tale of Two Slogans

Toffael Rashid, Farhan Choudhury

“Bacho, Becho” (Survive and Sell)

“Bacho, Becho” (Survive and Sell)

Convenience for Users, Uncertainty for Workers

Convenience for Users, Uncertainty for Workers

What the Law Actually Says About Polygamy

What the Law Actually Says About Polygamy

Why Bangladesh needs rule-based trade monitoring

Why Bangladesh needs rule-based trade monitoring

Somaliland’s Israel Gambit Is a Strategic Own Goal. Bangladesh Learned This Lesson in 1971

Somaliland’s Israel Gambit Is a Strategic Own...

Atif Ahmed Choudhury

How Bangladesh Slipped into the Global High-Risk Category

How Bangladesh Slipped into the Global High-R...

H.M. Nazmul Alam

Is There Damage Below the Boat's Waterline?

Is There Damage Below the Boat's Waterline?

A Tale of Two Slogans

A Tale of Two Slogans

Toffael Rashid, Farhan Choudhury

Beyond Fault Lines: Bangladesh's Intolerance Problem

Beyond Fault Lines: Bangladesh's Intolerance ...

Iran, Israel, and the Illusion of War

Iran, Israel, and the Illusion of War

Convenience for Users, Uncertainty for Workers

Convenience for Users, Uncertainty for Workers

The Hidden Empire

The Hidden Empire

The New Bangladesh-India Dynamic

The New Bangladesh-India Dynamic

A 20th Century Family

A 20th Century Family

“Bacho, Becho” (Survive and Sell)

“Bacho, Becho” (Survive and Sell)

When Memes Rewrite the Law

When Memes Rewrite the Law

What Zaima Said and Why It Matters

What Zaima Said and Why It Matters

H.M. Nazmul Alam

Lessons from Mother Mary Comes to Me

Lessons from Mother Mary Comes to Me

Tasmiah T. Rahman

An Open Letter to Barrister Zaima Rahman

An Open Letter to Barrister Zaima Rahman

Ashraf Ud Doula

The Politics of Responsibility and Compassion

The Politics of Responsibility and Compassion

Who Should Speak About Earthquakes?

Who Should Speak About Earthquakes?

Sirajur Rahman Khan

On Mudi, Tong, and the Perils of Asking Simple Questions

On Mudi, Tong, and the Perils of Asking Simpl...

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The Ganges Treaty and the End of Discretionary Diplomacy

The Ganges Treaty and the End of Discretionar...

The Song Remains: Freedom, Memory, and the Refusal to Forget

The Song Remains: Freedom, Memory, and the Re...

Ali Riaz’s Big Bet

Ali Riaz’s Big Bet

Begum Khaleda Zia's Quiet Battle for the Girl Child

Begum Khaleda Zia's Quiet Battle for the Girl...

Mir Aftabuddin Ahmed

The Ganges Treaty and the End of Discretionary Diplomacy

The Ganges Treaty and the End of Discretionar...

Time to Put Urban Planning Front and Centre

Time to Put Urban Planning Front and Centre

Md Hasibul Kabir and Dr. Faysal Kabir Shuvo

What Made America Great

What Made America Great

Subaltern Women and the Islamic Feminist Turn

Subaltern Women and the Islamic Feminist Turn

Sharin Shajahan Naomi

Too Shallow to Dive

Too Shallow to Dive

The Middle Eastern Job Market Is Dead

The Middle Eastern Job Market Is Dead

Kawsar Chowdhury

Where War Turned to Wonder

Where War Turned to Wonder

Sharin Shajahan Naomi

What Bangladesh Can Learn from Dr. Jane Goodall

What Bangladesh Can Learn from Dr. Jane Goodall

Mir Aftabuddin Ahmed

Ali Riaz’s Big Bet

Ali Riaz’s Big Bet

Begum Khaleda Zia's Quiet Battle for the Girl Child

Begum Khaleda Zia's Quiet Battle for the Girl...

Mir Aftabuddin Ahmed

Why New Delhi is Losing the Bangladeshi Heart

Why New Delhi is Losing the Bangladeshi Heart

Muhammad Asiful Basar

2026 Bangladeshi Elections and Information Bombs

2026 Bangladeshi Elections and Information Bombs

Nayanika Mookherjee

Building Bangladesh’s Next Multi-Billion-Dollar Export Industry

Building Bangladesh’s Next Multi-Billion-Doll...

Kawsar Chowdhury

The Unlikely Reinvention of the American Dollar: From Oil to Blockchain

The Unlikely Reinvention of the American Doll...

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

The Song Remains: Freedom, Memory, and the Refusal to Forget

The Song Remains: Freedom, Memory, and the Re...

The Great Blue Jeans War: How Sydney Sweeney’s Genes Powered Trump’s Spectacle Engine

The Great Blue Jeans War: How Sydney Sweeney’...

Learning from Tehran: A Warning for Bangladesh’s Democratic Future

Learning from Tehran: A Warning for Banglades...

Azeema Anhar Humaira

The Algorithm’s Muse: How a Cat Meme Led Me to the Barricades

The Algorithm’s Muse: How a Cat Meme Led Me t...

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Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

Toyota Bangladesh Limited and BIDA Hold Meeting

Toyota Bangladesh Limited and BIDA Hold Meeting

Toyota Bangladesh

February 12 is Not the End

February 12 is Not the End

Let’s Bring Down the Temperature

Let’s Bring Down the Temperature

A Bangladeshi-American Story

A Bangladeshi-American Story

Tamim Choudhury

Decoding the DC-Dhaka Dance

Decoding the DC-Dhaka Dance

Michael Kugelman

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

Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

February 12 is Not the End

February 12 is Not the End

Let’s Bring Down the Temperature

Let’s Bring Down the Temperature

Return to Democracy

Return to Democracy

Freedom is a Virus

Freedom is a Virus

Will the Angry Young Man Ever Leave Our Films?

Will the Angry Young Man Ever Leave Our Films?

Shoaib Ahmed Sayam

Unboxing Gen Z

Unboxing Gen Z

How Dhaka Kills Me Every Day

How Dhaka Kills Me Every Day

Samridhya Sarkar

From Zia to Now: The Empty Chair of Leadership

From Zia to Now: The Empty Chair of Leadership

Kawsar Chowdhury

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'Partitions of India are the root of many gre...

Azeema Anhar Humaira

'People are above everything. They are above the Constitution'

'People are above everything. They are above ...

Michella Chowdhury

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Interview with Khalid Quadir

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Do you agree with the banning of Awami League?

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