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