From 1947 to 1971: How Well Do We Know Bangladesh’s Political Heritage?

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From 1947 to 1971: How Well Do We Know Bangladesh’s Political Heritage?

Bangladesh was born in 1971. But its political identity had begun taking shape much earlier, and the history of East Pakistan between 1947 and 1971 remains one of the most important chapters in that journey. Politics during these years was not limited to resistance against Pakistani rule. The rights of farmers, provincial autonomy, the status…

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Politics, Democracy & Citizen Rights

Robotics on the Periphery: Bangladesh’s Strategic Opening in a Contested Technology

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Robotics on the Periphery: Bangladesh’s Strategic Opening in a Contested Technology

Robotics has quietly become a marker of technological sovereignty in today’s global order, shaping trade ties, defense postures, and industrial competitiveness well beyond factory efficiency. For Bangladesh, known internationally mainly for garment exports and labor migration, stepping into this space carries geopolitical weight beyond simple economic diversification. India and China have placed robotics and automation…

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Science, Technology & Innovation

Selling Heritage for Entertainment: How Responsible Are We for Protecting Historic Sites?

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Selling Heritage for Entertainment: How Responsible Are We for Protecting Historic Sites?

History is not simply a story of the past. It is part of a nation’s identity, its art and culture, and the roots that keep that identity alive. Every brick of our ancient buildings and archaeological sites carries memories preserved across centuries. These places are not merely structures made of brick and stone. They are…

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Art, Literature, History & National Heritage

Five Working Groups and a Trillion-Dollar Question: Can Committees Move Bangladesh’s Logistics Frontier

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Five Working Groups and a Trillion-Dollar Question: Can Committees Move Bangladesh’s Logistics Frontier

The Prime Minister’s directive to form five working groups under the National Logistics Policy 2025 is a welcome attempt to address one of Bangladesh’s most persistent economic constraints. The announcement itself is modest. The groups will focus on trade facilitation, digitalization, investment, infrastructure, and skills development, with their work coordinated by the National Logistics Development…

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Economy & Policy Governance

Waterlogged Fields, a Missed Planting Window: Pabna’s Monsoon Warns of a Wider Vulnerability: A Season Disrupted, Field by Field

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Waterlogged Fields, a Missed Planting Window: Pabna’s Monsoon Warns of a Wider Vulnerability: A Season Disrupted, Field by Field

In Shahapur village of Ishwardi upazila, farmer Md Mehedi Hasan watched two bighas of banana he had planted this season go under when the Padma rose sharply earlier this month. He is not alone. This article examines the immediate government response needed to salvage what remains of this season’s harvest in Pabna, and the longer-term…

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Agriculture

A Critique of the Case for a Fully Renewable Bangladesh: What the Piece Sets Out to Do

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A Critique of the Case for a Fully Renewable Bangladesh: What the Piece Sets Out to Do

The opinion piece under review, Sajed Kamal (2026) in The Daily Star, argues that Bangladesh possesses vast and largely untapped renewable energy potential, that global fire and warming trends make an accelerated transition urgent, and that the country should adopt what its author calls an emergency action plan toward one hundred percent renewable power. It…

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Sustainability & Urban Planning

A Local Liver, A National Question: What Bangladesh’s New Transplant Capacity Really Means – A Milestone Wrapped in a Single Family’s Story

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A Local Liver, A National Question: What Bangladesh’s New Transplant Capacity Really Means – A Milestone Wrapped in a Single Family’s Story

This article examines what Bangladesh’s newly revived liver transplant program means for patients, for health investment priorities, and for the fairness of concentrating resources on one terminal disease while others remain underserved. The story reads like an ordinary hospital case until the numbers sink in. A Dhaka homemaker with liver cirrhosis had her family pricing…

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Health

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

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

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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Humanity, Social Welfare, Human Rights & Happiness

When the Planet Wobbles: What NASA’s Discovery Means for a Delta Nation

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When the Planet Wobbles: What NASA’s Discovery Means for a Delta Nation

Somewhere beneath our feet, the planet is quietly shifting its balance. NASA scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have refined a method for tracking Earth’s centre of mass, the point around which its gravitational pull is centered, finding it moves several millimetres yearly as water, ice, and air redistribute globally. Snow over North America nudges…

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Science, Technology & Innovation

When Reporting Becomes a Weapon: Lobbies, Bias, and the Crisis of Crime Journalism in Bangladesh

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When Reporting Becomes a Weapon: Lobbies, Bias, and the Crisis of Crime Journalism in Bangladesh

Crime reporting in Bangladesh occupies a peculiar and vulnerable position. It touches on police investigations, political interests, business rivalries, and personal reputations all at once, which makes it uniquely exposed to influence from parties who benefit from a particular version of events reaching the public. The result, increasingly visible in recent years, is a media…

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Media, Publishing & Digital Dissemination
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