By embracing enduring, rights-based institutional programming, Bangladesh and the broader development community can plant the seeds of a resilient, deep-rooted institutional banyan tree that will stand firm through future economic and climatic storms.
Whenever one reads the great poets and writers of China, India, Russia, Latin America, West Asia, or any other part of the world, they can find themselves inhabiting their worlds and seeing life through their eyes. Their experiences become part of my own intellectual and emotional landscape. In that sense, I cannot confine myself to being only an ethnic Bengali.
Hunger rarely appears alone; it is accompanied by indebtedness, illness, labour precarity, and social exclusion.
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.
