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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…

Humanity, Social Welfare, Human Rights & Happiness

Education at the Oniket Bulletin: A Critical Review of 23 Articles, 16 Weeks

August 20, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

A critical read of the Education section’s last sixteen weeks yields an uneven verdict. The editorial board has pulled together a genuinely broad thematic range across the 23 published pieces, and a number of individual contributions demonstrate real intellectual gravity. Yet the commissioning pattern also exposes silences that a steadier editorial hand ought to close….

Education

The Greek Government Debt Crisis and Its Lessons for Bangladesh

August 20, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

Introduction Between 2009 and 2015, Greece endured repeated bailouts, harsh austerity, economic contraction, and social upheaval, a crisis that remains a defining example of how fiscal mismanagement, opaque data, political calculation, and external dependency can converge into national emergency. Though Bangladesh and Greece differ greatly in structure and development, aspects of Greece’s experience remain instructive….

Economy & Policy Governance

The Oniket Bulletin’s Law and Local Governance Coverage: A Critical Review of Twenty Seven Articles

August 20, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

Over sixteen weeks, the Law and Local Governance section of The Oniket Bulletin has published twenty seven articles that collectively trace an impressively broad map of Bangladesh’s legal and institutional landscape, ranging from constitutional foundations to the fine mechanics of ordinance drafting. When read as a cohesive body rather than discrete pieces, the section reveals…

Law & Local Governance

Presidential Election in Bangladesh and Democracy

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 editor No Comments

The presidential election scheduled for 20 August 2026, prompted by the resignation of President Mohammed Shahabuddin before his term expired, presents a familiar spectacle. The Election Commission has published dates, nomination deadlines have been set, and voting will occur inside the Jatiya Sangsad session hall. Everything looks constitutional. Yet the real question goes unasked: is…

Politics, Democracy & Citizen Rights

Bangladesh Agriculture in UNSDG Framework

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 editor 2 Comments

Bangladesh stands at a pivotal intersection. The country is preparing to exit the UN’s Least Developed Country category, currently expected by November 2029 after the UN Committee for Development Policy recommended a three-year extension, while simultaneously pursuing the UN Sustainable Development Goals with a 2030 deadline. Agriculture, which still employs over 44 percent of the…

Agriculture

Flickering Without Burning: Why Bangladeshi Cinema Keeps Failing the World Stage

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 editor 1 Comment

Fifty four years after independence, Bangladeshi cinema has gathered a loyal domestic audience, kept its theatres breathing, and scattered a handful of critically lauded works across international festivals. What it has never done is arrive. Neighboring India, Iran, and South Korea each built recognizable national film brands; Bangladesh, after half a century of intermittent brilliance,…

Art, Literature, History & National Heritage

Review of 16 weeks Media and Digital Dissemination Articles in the Oniket Bulletin

August 20, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

The Oniket Bulletin has, over the past sixteen weeks, assembled a substantial body of twenty-four articles under its Media, Publishing and Digital Dissemination category, offering what amounts to one of the more ambitious single outlet surveys of Bangladesh’s media policy landscape in recent memory. This report critically evaluates the commissioning choices, thematic coverage, factual depth,…

Media, Publishing & Digital Dissemination

Power Generation in Bangladesh and Sustainability

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 editor No Comments

The Oniket Bulletin analysis recently published on power generation in Bangladesh provides a valuable diagnostic of the structural, financial, and institutional weaknesses that have caused actual output to trail behind planned targets. It correctly identifies overdependence on imported fossil fuels, the perverse consequences of capacity payment contracts, and the bankability crisis in renewable energy tenders. …

Sustainability & Urban Planning

Health in the Oniket Bulletin: A Critical Review of Twenty-Six Articles

August 20, 2026August 29, 2026 editor No Comments

Across sixteen weeks, the Health section of The Oniket Bulletin has published twenty-six articles that collectively form one of the most thorough running commentaries on Bangladesh’s health policy landscape available in the country’s independent digital press. A careful reading reveals an editorial strategy that is deliberate yet occasionally uneven, shifting between pressing headline concerns and…

Health