World Bicycle Day / An ode to the humble bicycle
3 June 2026
On this World Bicycle Day, it is worth reflecting on the incredible technology that is the bicycle. I love walking, but I cannot help but admire the efficiency of the humble bicycle.
3 June 2026
Fuel crisis is a chance to rethink our cities
12 April 2026
While the fragile ceasefire and ongoing talks amid the Iran-US war offer some hope, the war has already driven up fuel costs and strained supply. For Bangladesh, this means rising prices, fiscal pressure, and a deepening energy crisis.
12 April 2026
Can’t we all just get along?
5 December 2025
How can we do better? First, we should cultivate the art of listening.
5 December 2025
World Car Free Day / Cities for people… or cars?
22 September 2025
Imagine that you were a car, not a person. How different would life be for you in Dhaka?
22 September 2025
The power of goodness
12 June 2025
People seem to love making negative remarks about societal breakdown and people’s lack of concern for others.
12 June 2025
Cars are killing Earth, in more ways than we think
29 April 2025
Cars are harmful to our health and to our environment.
29 April 2025
Are school buses the answer to our traffic woes?
21 March 2025
There are plenty of great examples of improving the traffic situation around schools and making the children's lives better.
21 March 2025
Public health must prioritise disease prevention
There is a common confusion around the subject of health.
31 January 2025
Helping street children requires a holistic, evidence-based approach
The focus of local governments should be ensuring that child protection protection services are prioritised.
20 November 2024
Democracy dies undefended
What can we learn from the American disaster? First, that democracy isn’t easy.
11 November 2024
World Cities Day 2024: Cities should be for people, not cars
It is time to greatly restrict the use of private motorised vehicles and make our cities more liveable.
31 October 2024
The wisdom of youth
If we have learnt nothing else in the last several months, it is not to underestimate the power of young people.
19 October 2024
Bigger isn't always better
The belief shared by corporate and government leaders that bigger is always better is founded on the false assumption
26 June 2024
Play should be a fundamental right for all children
Play is not a unique human construction: baby animals engage in play, using it to learn a variety of important skills
11 June 2024
The contradiction of comfort
How comfortable is it to not have clean air to breathe?
26 April 2024
Risky play and adventure playgrounds
Children flourish when given the opportunity to explore their environment and calculate risks.
31 March 2024
Acknowledge negativity, but don’t ignore the positive
People assign varying weights to their experiences, and so some of us focus on the positive.
2 March 2024
Respecting boundaries and holding men responsible
I wish we lived in a world where the perpetrator, not the survivor, was blamed for their actions.
30 January 2024
Can we have bicycle highways, too?
Let’s get over the prejudice that expressways are for cars.
10 January 2024
A plea for common humanity
Attitudes that insist on finding differences rather than commonalities are troubling.
14 November 2023
World Car-free Day: Decarbonise transport for climate justice
What happens to be a great solution for decarbonising transport is enabling and promoting walking, cycling, and pedal-powered rickshaws.
22 September 2023
Our forgotten elderly
In many cities around the world, elderly people literally cannot cross the road because the timing on crossing signals is too brief. At least we don’t have that problem in Dhaka, if only due to the absence of functional traffic lights.
7 September 2023
Is health an individual or collective responsibility?
The importance of government policy, not just individual motivation, for health becomes evident when we consider the behaviours needed for a person to stay healthy.
20 July 2023
An ode to local economies
Let’s shape the future in partnership with, rather than in destruction of, our local economy and local communities.
25 June 2023
Why Dhaka should invest more in bicycle lanes
Cycling infrastructure is far less expensive to build than roads, flyovers, elevated expressways, and parking garages for cars.
21 June 2023
We, as humans, must stop adapting to the unbearable
We complain endlessly about problems, but are adamant in our belief that nothing better is possible.
19 April 2023
If only breathing were optional
I would love to believe that I’m just having a severe reaction to dust, or that it’s all normal seasonal illness, but the evidence suggests otherwise.
9 April 2023