The elephants had to be rescued again. Where is the accountability?
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Unheard Voices
‘Situation under control’, but at whose expense?
16 September 2026
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Unheard Voices
The untold side of Bangladesh's climate migration
15 September 2026
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Dhaka's unbearable heat: Who suffers the most?
14 September 2026
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Enforced disappearance in Bangladesh / Who investigates the state?
12 September 2026
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Gibbons, kingfishers and the changing world of Adampur Reserved Forest
11 September 2026
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More than refugees: How Rohingya youth are reclaiming their story
9 September 2026
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Behind every cup / The mental toll on women tea workers
8 September 2026
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From Shyamnagar to Kurigram: Women work, but where is the income?
7 September 2026
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Waiting for April: The other side of migration in the Sundarbans
6 September 2026
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We don’t need zoos, only safe places for wild animals
At the beginning of December, a lioness named Daisy slipped out of her cage at Mirpur National Zoo for a few hours, sparking panic and a rushed evacuation.
2 January 2026
How many more deaths before mob violence is stopped?
But beneath the surface of religious fervour lay a more calculated motive.
26 December 2025
Char Haats: The unequal economics of the chars
For char residents, this unequal exchange is not new.
26 December 2025
Digging deeper into Barind’s water crisis
Farmers speak from lived experience, and their stories reveal the uneven spread of crisis across the region.
19 December 2025
A grieving street dog and reflections on environmental humanities
This human-made tragedy, however, was partially remedied by "humans" themselves.
19 December 2025
Songs of the soul: Baul Binoy Sutradhar’s inner world
Born in 1954 in Paikpara Union under Chunarughat Upazila of Habiganj district, Binoy was the son of a local farmer, Sudhir Chandra Sutradhar, and Snehalata Sutradhar. Before he was even seven, he lost his father, a loss that cast the family into deep hardship.
12 December 2025
What the new labour ordinance means for workers
A total of 125 sections have been amended or revised in the ordinance.
12 December 2025
Untold stories of young Bangladeshi migrants in France
Around 15 years ago, a new phenomenon emerged: the arrival in France of very young people
5 December 2025
Stories from the hanging village
The hungry river is coming towards us. Where will we go now?
5 December 2025
Faith, art, and livelihood in patachitra
Patachitra is considered one of the oldest Bengali forms of audio-visual storytelling.
28 November 2025
We don’t need more data - we need to understand it
The question is no longer about data scarcity, but about data governance: who holds it, who uses it, and to what end.
28 November 2025
Dhaka’s forgotten girls: Living without safety, identity or rights
One of the less visible but most damaging barriers is the absence of legal identity.
21 November 2025
Why is secondary education becoming unaffordable?
The soaring costs are turning secondary education into a secondary priority, overshadowed by the daily struggle for survival.
21 November 2025
Who owns Dhaka’s streets?
The informal economy is not a leftover of "under-development" but continues to operate across advanced societies.
14 November 2025
The hands that clean, the Harijans we refuse to see
Our stomachs often remain empty—not because we do not work hard, but because life is unfair
14 November 2025
RMG’s automation and green growth have a gender problem— Don’t ignore it
One often overlooked dimension of this transition is the interplay between automation, decent work, and the care economy.
7 November 2025
Why Bangladesh still believes teachers should be poor
Teachers' demands today are so modest that they almost reflect their learned helplessness.
7 November 2025
The hidden workforce: Inside Dhaka’s domestic work economy
The fundamental question is what can be done for the well-being of domestic workers in Bangladesh.
31 October 2025
Hearing the sonic image of Tiger: Survival lessons from the Sundarbans
How do the prey -- humans -- and the predator -- the tiger -- share forest space and survive together? Can the prey and predator truly live together?
31 October 2025
Will visually impaired voters be able to cast their vote?
Should it take a courtroom to remind us that democracy does not belong only to the able-bodied?
24 October 2025