Jannatul Naym Pieal

The issue is not whether every man is guilty, but why male defensiveness so often overrides women’s lived experiences

A new incident seems to shake the nation almost every week. Last Saturday (April 11) saw the shocking lynching of a Sufi pir, Shamim al-Jahangir, inside his shrine in Kushtia.

Anti-Bangladesh rhetoric and shifting electoral dynamics push a long-settled community to the political fringes

Recent Eid releases show faith as part of everyday life -- complex, personal, and often contradictory

MP Amir Hamza’s comments are more than body-shaming, they are sexist

In the attention economy, it doesn’t matter whether you love something or hate it; what matters is that you looked

Paapa Essiedu’s casting has sparked a fierce fan debate, exposing the uneasy line between loyalty to canon and resistance to representation

Even with Arifin Shuvoo in the lead, web series Jazz City repeats a familiar trope

Bangladeshi migrant workers sustain the nation, even as they face growing dangers abroad

Rethinking a colonial-era label

Decision to change lottery system and restore the entrance exam merits further deliberation

Germany had a Jürgen Habermas, who died on March 14, 2026. He was not just a philosopher writing for academics; he was a public intellectual, someone who used ideas to help society understand itself, confront its own mistakes, and imagine a better future.

Mediator between intellectual life and national memory, Germany’s leading postwar philosopher helped shape public debate

In the past few days, courts in Bangladesh have handed down two notable verdicts in cases of animal cruelty.

Polls show rising support for Netanyahu’s campaign while global focus shifts from Gaza

How Wikipedia is erasing Gaza from history

Bold in politics, ignorant on equality

The Liberation War of 1971 was not the work of one man. It was the product of millions of freedom fighters, political leaders, student activists, cultural organisers, rural villagers, defecting officers, and ordinary citizens who bore extraordinary costs.

Caught between reliance on US hard power and its own ambitions for strategic autonomy, Europe manages fallout rather than commanding outcomes

What the statement didn’t say is what really matters. It didn’t name the United States or Israel—the countries that launched the strikes without any provocation.