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Hajj 2027 in the Shadow of War: A Bangladesh Planning Agenda

October 24, 2026October 24, 2026 editor No Comments

In Bangladesh, the preparation of Hajj should be religious and at the same time credible to public administration. Recent incidents have shown that the region can be insecure, impacting on civilian travel, as evidenced by attacks on Saudi airports and related airline cancellations. Suspensions in Riyadh and for some carriers in Jeddah and Madinah, were…

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Personal Freedom and Society: When Happiness Is Entirely Private

October 18, 2026October 18, 2026 editor No Comments

Almost everyone must face an unwritten rule of society: the tendency to measure one’s personal life by other people’s yardsticks. From birth to death, every step a person takes seems tied to society’s invisible threads. When the question concerns something as deeply personal as marriage or choosing a life partner, society and family do not…

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Cities Within Cities: How Slums Shape Social Welfare and Harmony in Bangladesh’s Metropolitans

October 10, 2026October 10, 2026 editor No Comments

This article examines how slums in Bangladesh’s major metropolitan areas, such as Dhaka, Chattogram, Khulna, Rajshahi and Sylhet, affect the social welfare and social harmony of those cities. It looks at both the strains slums create and the contributions their residents make, and it suggests how policy can turn a source of division into a…

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Two Neighbors, Two Laws: Comparing Bangladesh and India on Pornography, Solicitation, and Social Welfare

October 1, 2026October 1, 2026 editor No Comments

A follow up to Rimsha Seethe, “Pornography, Policy, and the Bangladeshi Dilemma: Law, Mental Health, and the Limits of Prohibition,” Oniket Bulletin, September 3, 2026 Seethe’s article lays out a dilemma that is distinctly Bangladeshi in its framing but far from unique in the region. Bangladesh criminalizes pornography outright under the Pornography Control Act of…

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The Hidden Secularism in Bangladesh: Religious Harmony and the Cultural Map of Religions

September 24, 2026September 24, 2026 editor No Comments

This article examines the everyday, largely unexamined secularism that persists beneath Bangladesh’s constitutional declaration of Islam as the state religion, distinguishing it from secularism as a formal legal doctrine. It traces where interfaith coexistence has functioned in practice, identifies the specific junctures, communal, political, and institutional, where that coexistence has visibly fractured, and assesses what…

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Digital Accessibility: Laws and Policies Exist, But Where Is the Implementation?

September 17, 2026September 24, 2026 editor No Comments

Over the past decade, the expansion of digital services in Bangladesh has brought significant changes to the country’s public service system. Government information, applications, registration, education, healthcare, social protection and financial transactions are increasingly moving online. There is no doubt that this is an important achievement in Bangladesh’s development. But alongside this progress, a fundamental…

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Streaming Past the Censor: What Bangladesh’s OTT Boom Is Costing Human Rights

September 10, 2026September 10, 2026 editor No Comments

Over the past decade, Bangladesh’s entertainment landscape has undergone a quiet but significant transformation, migrating from cinema halls and television screens, once governed by a censor board, to smartphones and laptops that answer to almost no oversight at all. Online streaming platforms, both domestic and international, have opened up a route around the traditional vetting…

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Pornography, Policy, and the Bangladeshi Dilemma: Law, Mental Health, and the Limits of Prohibition

September 3, 2026September 3, 2026 editor 2 Comments

Bangladesh’s legal position on pornography is unambiguous on paper. The Pornography Control Act of 2012 criminalizes the production, distribution, and possession of pornographic content, treating it as an offence against public morality and family values. The Information and Communication Technology Act and its successor cyber security legislation extend this prohibition into the digital domain, criminalizing…

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Bangladesh’s Young Workforce: Demoralized, and Underdelivering in Skill and Creative Industries

August 29, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

Across Bangladesh’s advertising agencies, software firms, design studios, and media houses, employers increasingly describe a similar frustration. Fresh graduates arrive with degrees, sometimes strong academic transcripts, yet struggle to originate ideas, sustain long projects, or take ownership of ambiguous problems. The gap is not intelligence. It is preparation. Many young professionals were trained to answer…

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Free Will against Dignity: Where is Social Media in Bangladesh?

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 editor No Comments

Whether individual freedom in digital spaces should sometimes give way to collective social values is a question most Western researchers wouldn’t typically stop asking. Within liberal traditions, free will is sacrosanct: adults choose who they associate with, live with the outcomes, and society steps in only once clear harm is demonstrated. Yet a recent study…

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