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<title>Counterpoint &#45; : Society</title>
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<description>Counterpoint &#45; : Society</description>
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<dc:rights>Copyright 2025 counterpoint&#45; All Rights Reserved.</dc:rights>

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<title>Child Abuse, Religious Power, and the Silence of Institutions</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/child-abuse-religious-power-and-the-silence-of-institutions</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/child-abuse-religious-power-and-the-silence-of-institutions</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A society in which the “honour of the huzur” matters more than a child’s cry has not yet learned justice. A state in which poor families are afraid to seek justice has not yet learned equal protection. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:25:08 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lubna Ferdowsi</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Justice, Settlement</media:keywords>
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<title>Development Begins Where Human Potential is Nurtured</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Development-Begins-Where-Human-Potential-is-Nurtured</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Development-Begins-Where-Human-Potential-is-Nurtured</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In a world driven by technology and innovation, the value of human intellect far exceeds that of raw materials. Countries that fail to recognize this shift risk being trapped in cycles of dependency and underdevelopment. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:50:02 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Aristotle, Amartya Sen, South Korea</media:keywords>
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<title>Not All, But Men</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Not-All%2C-But-Men</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Not-All%2C-But-Men</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Petitions are circulating now to remove these sites from search engines. Outrage is building, slowly. But it is not enough. But the real shift needs to start within us, in these awkward conversations. Stop correcting the numbers, stop making excuses and start confronting what actually happened. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:20:00 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Shanim Tasnim</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Women, Women&#039;s Rights, Rape, Men</media:keywords>
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<item>
<title>The Machete and the Matchstick</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Machete-and-the-Matchstick</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Machete-and-the-Matchstick</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When the state manages impunity, the mob manages the rest. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:45:17 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Zakir Kibria</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Bangladesh, Religious Extremism, Mob Violence, Sufism</media:keywords>
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<title>Civilization at the Crossroads of Cosmos and Catastrophe</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Civilization-at-the-Crossroads-of-Cosmos-and-Catastrophe</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Civilization-at-the-Crossroads-of-Cosmos-and-Catastrophe</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The contrast between our technological ambitions and our moral shortcomings raises an uncomfortable possibility. What if our progress is fundamentally unbalanced? What if we have mistaken the expansion of capability for the advancement of civilization? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:14:47 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Second World War, Persia, Utopia</media:keywords>
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<title>The Case for Mangal Shobhajatra</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/the-case-for-mangal-shobhajatra</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/the-case-for-mangal-shobhajatra</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ If belief is so fragile that papier-mâché masks and symbolic animals can threaten it, the problem lies not with the procession, but with the insecurity of that belief. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:48:12 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lubna Ferdowsi</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Mangal Shobhajatra, Dhaka University, Pohela Boishakh</media:keywords>
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<title>The Broad Banner of the LGBTQIA+ Community</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Broad-Banner</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Broad-Banner</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A person’s sexual orientation is an innate characteristic of that person and must not be a basis for discrimination. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:31:10 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Riaz Osmani</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>LGBTQ, Identity Politics</media:keywords>
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<title>Navigating Homophobia in Bangladesh 2.0</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/navigating-homophobia</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/navigating-homophobia</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Left out of consciousness was a group of people who possibly constitute up to 5-10% of the country’s population. This group is none other than the LGBTQIA+ people who have always been part of the society, but lived clandestine lives of lies until only a decade or so ago. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:03:59 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Riaz Osmani</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>LGBT, Bangladesh 2.0</media:keywords>
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<title>Mental Wellbeing Beyond Ramadan: Inner Work for Becoming Better Versions of Ourselves</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Mental-Wellbeing-Beyond-Ramadan%3A-Inner-Work-for-Becoming-Better-Versions-of-Ourselves</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Mental-Wellbeing-Beyond-Ramadan%3A-Inner-Work-for-Becoming-Better-Versions-of-Ourselves</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Divine gratitude can flow into our everyday lives in such ways, humbling our hearts to appreciate our privileges, the people and experiences that shape us, and the community and world we belong to, all the while realizing that much of life is a gift rather than an entitlement. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:30:12 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Arman Rashid</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Ramadan, Wellness, Mental Health, Mindfulness</media:keywords>
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<title>Dhaka Will See You Now, Mr Prime Minister</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Dhaka-Will-Now-See-You</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Dhaka-Will-Now-See-You</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ You have to heal those it hurt, reassure those who hurt on its behalf, and do all of this under the watchful eye of a public that has very little forgiveness left in the tank. You are blamed for problems you inherited and applauded cautiously for small, unsexy fixes that don’t photograph well. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:00:11 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Apurba Jahangir</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Tarique Rahman, Interim Government</media:keywords>
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<title>When Lullabies Become Archives</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/When-Lullabies-Become-Archives</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/When-Lullabies-Become-Archives</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ What appears as playful nonsense often functions as mnemonic residue, compressed narratives of invasion, hunger, gendered sorrow, ecological uncertainty, and communal endurance. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:47:05 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Nafew Sajed Joy</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Bengali folk, Rabindranath Tagore</media:keywords>
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<title>The Straw&#45;Woman Fallacy</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/An-Angry-Daughter</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/An-Angry-Daughter</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Feminism has become a new F-word. But let&#039;s at least debate the issues that women are really talking about and demanding rather than a patriarchal projection of what men think women want and demanding. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:10:46 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Shanim Tasnim</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Women, Women&#039;s Rights, Feminism</media:keywords>
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<title>Unlearning Obedience</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Unlearning-Obedience</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Unlearning-Obedience</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We’re tired of being told to wait. We’re tired of being told to be reasonable. We’re tired of being told to consider the reputations of men, the stability of institutions, the sensitivities of cultures. We’re tired of the same headlines feeling like déjà vu. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:02:24 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Azeema Anhar Humaira</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Women&#039;s Day, Woolf, Plath, Morrison</media:keywords>
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<title>Bangladesh Chose Normal Over Revolutionary, and That Tells Us Everything</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Bangladesh-Chose-Normal-Over-Revolutionary</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Bangladesh-Chose-Normal-Over-Revolutionary</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Voters opted for political change at a moment of acute economic strain and fraying public security. They desperately want stability and tangible economic recovery. That&#039;s what they voted for. That&#039;s what they now expect to receive in return. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:10:53 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Faruq Hasan</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>BNP, Jamaat, Elections</media:keywords>
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<title>Democracy Day Special Biriyani: A Facebook Feed on Election Day in Bangladesh</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Democracy-Day-Special-Biriyani</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Democracy-Day-Special-Biriyani</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The polls close. One by one, the live streams flicker and die. The official pages go dormant, saving their energy for victory declarations or accusations of theft. The meme pages are quiet. The deepfake bazaar has shut its stalls. Your thumb, trained for twelve hours on a refresh-loop, finally has nothing to pull. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:46:45 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Zakir Kibria</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Elections</media:keywords>
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<title>The Burning Temples of Bangladesh: Journalism, Culture, and Democracy at Risk</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Burning-Temples-of-Bangladesh</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Burning-Temples-of-Bangladesh</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When a society burns its own newspapers, attacks its artists, and restricts freedom of thought, that fire does not stop there. It spreads to courts, classrooms, and homes. When a city burns, its temples do not survive. Our temples, culture and freedom of expression, are no longer matters of personal preference. They are matters of collective survival. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:20:03 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Nafew Sajed Joy</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Prothom Alo, The Daily Star, Chhayanaut, Dipu Das</media:keywords>
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<title>Bridging Divides: Taslima Akhter and Bangladesh’s Śromik and Nārī Andolon</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Taslima-Akhter</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Taslima-Akhter</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Lima’s commitment to centering worker’s voices and futures, and the combination of pragmatism and integrity that drives her have been on full display in the past two decades, long before the most recent elections were announced. Equally at ease organizing in the industrial belts as in negotiating policy reform in Dhaka or Geneva, she is exactly the kind of candidate the country needs right now. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:40:07 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dina M. Siddiqi and Hasan Ashraf</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Feminism, Worker&#039;s rights, Photography, Protest</media:keywords>
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<title>The Song Remains: Freedom, Memory, and the Refusal to Forget</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Song-Remains</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Song-Remains</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Whether it is a party that markets itself as the sole heir of 1971, or a hardline movement that once mocked that struggle and now sanitizes its record, the exploitation is the same. Both seek to convert freedom into political capital. Both demand that citizens forget what they saw and felt. Both ask us to trade memory for myth. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:50:32 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Shamaruh Mirza</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Pilkhana, Shapla Chattar, Rosa Luxemburg, 1971</media:keywords>
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<title>The Great Blue Jeans War: How Sydney Sweeney’s Genes Powered Trump’s Spectacle Engine</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/the-great-blue-jeans-war-how-sydney-sweeneys-genes-powered-trumps-spectacle-enginefrom-cultural-grievance-to-geopolitical-shock-and-awe-the-unifying-logic-of-a-politics-built-on-spectacle</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/the-great-blue-jeans-war-how-sydney-sweeneys-genes-powered-trumps-spectacle-enginefrom-cultural-grievance-to-geopolitical-shock-and-awe-the-unifying-logic-of-a-politics-built-on-spectacle</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The question for a republic is whether it can learn to look away from the dazzling, authoritarian image long enough to see -- and rebuild -- the dull, demanding, and essential foundations of a reality-based politics. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:14:47 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Zakir Kibria</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Spectacle, Republican</media:keywords>
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<title>Learning from Tehran: A Warning for Bangladesh’s Democratic Future</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Learning-from-Tehran</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Learning-from-Tehran</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The decision for Bangladesh is simply this: Either we recognize what is happening to our degree of liberty now, or we will soon read about it in the pages of history books as if it is a novel about something that was simply unavoidable. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:34:28 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Azeema Anhar Humaira</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Propaganda, Radical, Repression</media:keywords>
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<title>The Algorithm’s Muse: How a Cat Meme Led Me to the Barricades</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Algorithm%E2%80%99s-Muse</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Algorithm%E2%80%99s-Muse</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The crown cat becomes a single blood cell in the circulatory system of the algorithmic beast. Nusrat doesn’t remember the cat meme today. Not consciously. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:07:53 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Zakir Kibria</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Algorithm, Data, Digital Footprint</media:keywords>
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<title>The Four Bangladeshes</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Bangladesh%E2%80%99s-Quiet-Schism</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Bangladesh%E2%80%99s-Quiet-Schism</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The country is no longer simply divided by class and by geography. It is now divided into four different kinds of society defined by education, language, migration, and access to power: expatriates, English-medium graduates, Bangla-medium graduates, and Madrasa-educated students. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 14:40:30 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Protik Bardhan</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Four Economies, Inequality, Madrasa</media:keywords>
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<title>Ekattur&#45;er Boiguli: A 1971 Reading List</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Ekattur-er-Boiguli</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Ekattur-er-Boiguli</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In the past decade, a number of books have appeared on Bangladesh’s Liberation War. This essay covers three volumes focusing on the war from within the lens of conflict studies and great game manuevering -- by Gary J Bass, Srinath Raghavan, and Salil Tripathi. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:51:36 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jyoti Rahman</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>1971, Bangladesh, Liberation War</media:keywords>
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<title>What is a Bengali Muslim Country?</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/What-is-a-Bengali-Muslim-country</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/What-is-a-Bengali-Muslim-country</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Bangladesh is once again caught between its tradition of mixed, tolerant culture and the growing push for strict Salafist ideas — a struggle now shaping the country’s identity ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:33:33 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Zeeshan Khan</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Bengali, Muslim, Nation</media:keywords>
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<title>A History  of the Bengali Muslim Nation from 1905 to Today</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/the-partition-of-bengal-1905-article-countercurrents</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/the-partition-of-bengal-1905-article-countercurrents</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ To understand Bangladesh 2025, it’s helpful to know what happened in Bengal in 1905, where it all began. We need to know who we are and where we came from if we hope to chart a path to a better future. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:50:25 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mumtaz Iqbal</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Bengal Partition, India, Mujib</media:keywords>
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<title>The Gen Z Burnout: How 20&#45;Year&#45;Olds Became Tired Before Living</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Gen-Z-Burnout</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/The-Gen-Z-Burnout</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Their burnout is not a personal failing. It is a symptom of a culture that confuses motion with meaning. If a generation is exhausted before life begins, the problem is not them. It is the world we have collectively built around them. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:49:41 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Generation Z, Youth</media:keywords>
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<title>Bangladesh’s Fake Photo Card Problem</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Bangladesh%E2%80%99s-Fake-Photo-Card-Problem</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Bangladesh%E2%80%99s-Fake-Photo-Card-Problem</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ As the country gears up for what is going to be the most consequential national election in its independent history, a locally grown form of online harm, deliberately engineered to fuel targeted disinformation campaigns and rampant misinformation among a largely digitally illiterate population, is posing a serious threat to its efforts to transition from authoritarianism to democracy. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:04:33 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mir Aftabuddin Ahmed</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Elections, Photo Cards</media:keywords>
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<title>The July Uprising and Its Aftermath</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/the-july-uprising-and-its-aftermath-how-revolutionary-aspiration-became-an-elite-settlement</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/the-july-uprising-and-its-aftermath-how-revolutionary-aspiration-became-an-elite-settlement</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ How revolutionary aspiration transformed into an elite settlement ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:51:50 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Asif Shahan</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>July Uprising, Interim Government, Election</media:keywords>
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<title>Soundtrack for the Apocalypse: A Dhaka Gridlock Playlist</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Soundtrack-for-the-Apocalypse</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Soundtrack-for-the-Apocalypse</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ You can&#039;t defeat Dhaka traffic. But these tunes can minimize your pain. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:07:46 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Zakir Kibria</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Traffic, Dhaka</media:keywords>
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<title>When Bangladesh’s Demographic Dividend Turns Into a Curse</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Bangladesh-Demographic-Dividend</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ The demographic dividend is not destiny -- it’s a choice. Bangladesh has 15 years to act, but  the window shrinks daily. Without a bold vision, this youth bulge could ignite unrest rather than prosperity, echoing the Arab Spring’s unfulfilled promise.   ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:32:45 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>M.K.Aaref</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Demographic Dividend, Population</media:keywords>
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<title>In Defence of the Word Unspoken</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/In-Defence-of-the-Word-Unspoken</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/In-Defence-of-the-Word-Unspoken</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Societies that silence dissent eventually silence innovation, justice, and even hope. The cemetery of nations is filled not with those who spoke too much, but with those who spoke too little. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:59:09 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>H.M. Nazmul Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Freedom of Expression</media:keywords>
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<title>Revisiting 1971: Divergent Histories and the Responsibility of Re&#45;reading</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Revisiting-1971-Divergent</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Revisiting-1971-Divergent</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ 1971 is not only the history of a time; it is the foundation of our national identity, which must constantly be re-read, understood, and preserved. Re-reading the Liberation War of 1971 in the context of the current times and its challenges is the need of the hour. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 06:12:16 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Zahed Alam</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>1971, Liberation War</media:keywords>
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<title>A Matter of Life and Death</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/The-power-of-coloring-someone-Nastik</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/The-power-of-coloring-someone-Nastik</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Democracy depends on two simple protections: that people can speak, and that they will not be killed for speaking. In Bangladesh, labeling someone a nastik is painting a target on his back, and should be seen for the incitement to violence that it is. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 05:08:43 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Omar Shehab</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Zahedur Rahman, Islamism, Nastik</media:keywords>
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<title>Forget the Elite. We Need To Think About Aspiring Elites.</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Forget-the-elite%2C-think-about-aspiring-elites</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Forget-the-elite%2C-think-about-aspiring-elites</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ What happens when the interests of the elite class collide with those of an ever more assertive aspiring elite? We&#039;re about to find out. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 06:31:36 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Syed Akhtar Mahmood</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>Whatever Happened to the Bangladeshi Elite?</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Whatever-happened-to-the-Bangladeshi-elite</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Whatever-happened-to-the-Bangladeshi-elite</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Are there signs that the old elite consensus that governed Bangladesh for five decades is breaking down, and, if so, what will replace it? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 11:39:40 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Naomi Hossain</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Elite</media:keywords>
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<title>Milestone’s Tragedy: From National Neglect to a National Emergency Response Authority</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Milestone%E2%80%99s-Tragedy%3A-From-National-Neglect-to-a-National-Emergency-Response-Authority</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Milestone%E2%80%99s-Tragedy%3A-From-National-Neglect-to-a-National-Emergency-Response-Authority</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ If we don’t redraw the line between what’s acceptable and what must never be tolerated -- we’re not just broken. We’re part of the problem. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 05:36:20 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kawsar Chowdhury</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>Agents of Hope or Architects of Chaos</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/Agents-of-Hope-or-Architects-of-Chaos</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/Agents-of-Hope-or-Architects-of-Chaos</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ When justice is replaced by selective rage, even agents of hope risk becoming architects of chaos -- threatening the very foundation of the New Bangladesh. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 06:10:30 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Mirza R. Ahmad</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>We came apart, before we could come together: The root lies in our identity crisis</title>
<link>https://counterpointbd.com/We-came-apart%2C-before-we-could-come-together%3A-The-root-lies-in-our-identity-crisis</link>
<guid>https://counterpointbd.com/We-came-apart%2C-before-we-could-come-together%3A-The-root-lies-in-our-identity-crisis</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ We have still to define a national identity for Bangladesh, and we need a national dialogue on the matter or we will remain a fractured people. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 05:49:16 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Shahed Iqbal</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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