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<title>The Future Is on Trial</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The future is no longer approaching. It is already negotiating with us. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:46:02 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alisha Pradhan</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Martin Luther King Jr, Geneva, USA, Kafka, George Orwell</media:keywords>
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<title>The Marriage Market and Marrying Late</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ 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. ]]></description>
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<title>The Hypocrisy Under the Veil of Conservatism, Religion and Tradition</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ 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. ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Alisha Pradhan</dc:creator>
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<title>What Made America Great</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ 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. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:44:54 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alisha Pradhan</dc:creator>
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<title>Blood, Bureaucracy, and Transition</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ An evidence-led appraisal of one year of Bangladesh’s interim government ]]></description>
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<dc:creator>Alisha Pradhan</dc:creator>
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