Uber, Pathao, and O Bhai in Bangladesh’s Contested Transport Market

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Uber, Pathao, and O Bhai in Bangladesh’s Contested Transport Market

The urban transport landscape of Bangladesh has undergone significant transformation in recent years, largely due to the proliferation of app-based ride-sharing platforms. In the densely populated cities of Dhaka and Chattogram, three names predominate in the discourse: Uber, a multinational corporation, Pathao, a domestic enterprise, and O Bhai, a local competitor, are the three primary…

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Trade, Commerce & Industry

When Bonds Break: Social Transformation, Women’s Agency, and the Changing Face of Divorce in Bangladesh

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When Bonds Break: Social Transformation, Women’s Agency, and the Changing Face of Divorce in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is changing in ways that are visible, measurable, and sometimes deeply uncomfortable for a society rooted in conservative family values. Rising female literacy, expanding economic participation, and a generation of women who carry both confidence and legal awareness into their marriages have altered the terms on which intimate partnerships are negotiated and dissolved. Divorce…

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Politics, Democracy & Citizen Rights

Pages That Breathe: The Vision of Kothar Kagoj and Literature for All

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Pages That Breathe: The Vision of Kothar Kagoj and Literature for All

There are magazines that publish literature, and then there are magazines that believe in it deeply enough to reimagine who literature is truly for. Kothar Kagoj, the Dhaka-based quarterly journal of art and literature, belongs firmly to the second kind. Since its founding and first steps into the literary landscape of Bangladesh, it has carried…

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Art, Literature, History & National Heritage

Regional Literacy in Bangladesh: Disparities, Underlying Causes, and Pathways to Progress

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Regional Literacy in Bangladesh: Disparities, Underlying Causes, and Pathways to Progress

Over the past few decades, Bangladesh has achieved remarkable progress in the education sector. Following independence, the country faced widespread illiteracy, limited educational institutions, and low school participation rates. Today, however, Bangladesh has gained international recognition for its near-universal primary school enrollment and steadily increasing literacy rates. Yet behind this national success lies an important…

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Education

Growth Isn’t Enough: Gender, Education, and Climate in Bangladesh’s Development Journey

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Growth Isn’t Enough: Gender, Education, and Climate in Bangladesh’s Development Journey

Bangladesh’s economic transformation over recent decades has drawn considerable attention in development economics. Sustained growth, export expansion, and notable human development gains have repositioned the country as a lower-middle-income economy. Yet contemporary research increasingly emphasizes a transition from growth-led development to inclusion-led development, where gender equity, particularly through education policy, becomes central to long-term prosperity….

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Economy & Policy Governance

Sex Work Under the Shadow of Law

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Sex Work Under the Shadow of Law

In Bangladesh, sex work has always been a controversial subject of discussion. On one hand, this country is one of the few Muslim majority nations in the world where adult women providing sexual services are legally recognized. On the other hand, this legal recognition has never ensured safety, dignity, or basic rights for sex workers….

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Law & Local Governance

Digital Accessibility

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Digital Accessibility

On 22 May 2026, Prothom Alo published a report titled “Digital Accessibility in Bangladesh: An Essential Condition for an Inclusive Future.” The report emphasizes that all people in the country, including people with disabilities, should be included in digital accessibility initiatives, enjoy equal access to digital services in every sphere of life, and have this…

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Media, Publishing & Digital Dissemination

The Price of Leaving: Counting the True Cost of Migration from Bangladesh

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The Price of Leaving: Counting the True Cost of Migration from Bangladesh

Annually, a significant number of Bangladeshis, numbering in hundreds of thousands, depart from their country to engage in labor abroad. The aggregate remittance figure, which exceeded thirty billion US dollars in the 2025 financial year, is frequently presented as evidence of migration’s economic success. Politicians celebrate it. Economists frequently cite it in their research. The…

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Economy & Policy Governance

Fractional CFOs and CEOs: Closing Bangladesh’s Governance and Execution Gap

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Fractional CFOs and CEOs: Closing Bangladesh’s Governance and Execution Gap

Strategic Context Bangladesh’s next phase of private-sector competitiveness will depend not only on access to capital, export resilience or infrastructure delivery, but also on whether businesses can access strategic leadership before they can afford a permanent C-suite. Fractional CFO and CEO consultancy services offer a practical but still underdeveloped solution. Properly structured, the model can…

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Trade, Commerce & Industry

The Rebel Poet’s Creed: Equity at the Heart of Nazrul’s Verse

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The Rebel Poet’s Creed: Equity at the Heart of Nazrul’s Verse

Kazi Nazrul Islam, the national poet of Bangladesh and one of the most towering literary figures of the Bengali-speaking world, was never merely a craftsman of beautiful language. He was a conscience made verse. At the centre of his vast and passionate body of work lies an unrelenting love for equity, a conviction that no…

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Art, Literature, History & National Heritage
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