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Jannatul Naym Pieal

Jannatul Naym Pieal is a Bangladesh-based writer, researcher and journalist. He can be reached at jn.pieal@gmail.com

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Reaction / What Jamir Nazir’s Commonwealth win tells us about literature in the age of AI

3 July 2026, 15:04 PM
As AI-assisted writing becomes harder to avoid, the real test of literature may lie not in how it is produced, but in the humanity of its ideas
3 July 2026, 15:04 PM
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Can the China-Myanmar-Bangladesh Economic Corridor become a reality?

1 July 2026, 00:10 AM
China's proposed economic corridor promises strategic opportunities for Bangladesh, but Myanmar's prolonged conflict makes its realisation a distant prospect.
1 July 2026, 00:10 AM
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Can tourist visa resumption mend our bilateral ties with India?

27 June 2026, 17:44 PM
Anti-Bangladesh rhetoric continues to emanate from influential quarters in West Bengal and across India’s political discourse, which has real consequences. It shapes how ordinary Indians perceive Bangladeshis and creates a climate in which hostility—at immigration counters and in public spaces—may become culturally normalised, making the stay of Bangladeshis anywhere in India fraught with anxiety and insecurity.
27 June 2026, 17:44 PM
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Why fencing the Myanmar frontier alone won’t work

18 June 2026, 14:52 PM
A line on a map cannot contain a war economy, armed actors, or a collapsing frontier next door.
18 June 2026, 14:52 PM
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How to choose the right AI for the right task

14 June 2026, 17:54 PM
Artificial intelligence has genuinely made our creative and professional lives easier — whether you are a writer staring down a deadline, a researcher drowning in documents, or simply someone trying to get through a long to-do list.
14 June 2026, 17:54 PM
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What the 57th border talks refused to say about BSF killings and push-ins

14 June 2026, 10:00 AM
When diplomatic talks fail, the language of their conclusion is usually the last to admit it.
14 June 2026, 10:00 AM
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Do Mamata and the Trinamool Congress have a political future?

11 June 2026, 13:48 PM
Mamata’s rump would be Trinamool Lite — still around, still vocal, but no longer the machinery through which Bengal’s political economy ran.
11 June 2026, 13:48 PM
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By ‘justifying’ border killings, has the home minister conceded the Indian narrative?

4 June 2026, 09:00 AM
On June 2, with a border conference six days away, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed spoke to reporters at the Secretariat and dismantled decades of Bangladeshi advocacy in a single sweep.
4 June 2026, 09:00 AM
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What can stop India's push-ins?

As India intensifies deportation efforts, Bangladesh faces growing pressure at a border increasingly shaped by politics.
3 June 2026, 08:45 AM
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Beyond one cancelled film screening

On Saturday, a group of film enthusiasts in Brahmanbaria planned to do something entirely ordinary: watch a film together, discuss it, and go home.
2 June 2026, 10:00 AM
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Bobby Hajjaj may have retreated, but was he actually wrong?

Lost in the storm of institutional pride was a more uncomfortable question: was Bobby Hajjaj actually wrong? The short answer is: not substantially.
30 May 2026, 15:18 PM
‘Bonolota Express’ takes off: cast revealed

Who really wrote what you loved in Bonolota Express?

The movie is an adaptation of a Humayun Ahmed book, but two screenwriters gave it life for the screen
27 May 2026, 16:53 PM
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East Bengal’s victory and the memory of lost homes

East Bengal winning the Indian Super League symbolises profound cultural vindication for displaced refugees facing political anxieties.
24 May 2026, 09:29 AM
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‘I don't want justice’: The deeper danger behind one father’s words

In Dhaka’s Pallabi, an eight-year-old was raped and murdered inside a neighbouring flat on May 19. Her body was dismembered in an attempt to conceal the crime.
23 May 2026, 13:00 PM
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Dhaka should confront the Arakan Army’s abduction of fishermen

On the morning of March 28, 2026, some 13 Bangladeshi fishermen left Shah Porir Dwip in Teknaf before dawn, as generations before them had done, to pull nets from the Naf River.
19 May 2026, 10:00 AM
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The puppets we become: Reading Manik Bandopadhyay in 2026

In 2026, this narrative cuts deeper than ever. Millions live as modern Shoshis — outwardly functional yet existentially adrift.
19 May 2026, 09:30 AM
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Have we lost our moral limits?

As Kaarina's father typed out his farewell in the small hours of this morning, strangers were celebrating. Not quietly. Loudly, gleefully, with religious invocations, sexual slurs, and -- in the most depraved corners of social media -- threats to rape her corpse.
16 May 2026, 22:49 PM
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What will stop killings at the Bangladesh–India border?

Persistent killings along the Bangladesh-India border expose deepening impunity, nationalist politics, and failures of accountability mechanisms today.
16 May 2026, 15:55 PM
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Measles outbreak and the politics of convenience

“For the past two months, innocent children have been dying, and there has been no discussion about it in parliament. No one is taking responsibility.
14 May 2026, 09:00 AM
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What Trump-Xi summit means for Bangladesh

As Trump and Xi reshape global rivalry, Bangladesh faces new economic risks, strategic pressures, and industrial opportunities.
13 May 2026, 14:19 PM
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Bangladesh’s youth unemployment crisis is turning migration into a deadly gamble

On May 2, 28-year-old Md Riyad Rashid from Kishoreganj was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack near the Russia-Ukraine border while serving with Russian forces. His friend Limon Dutta, who was injured in the same attack, informed the family and said another Bangladeshi had died beside him.
12 May 2026, 10:00 AM
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What we can learn from Sweden’s rethink of digital classrooms

While smart technologies can make classrooms more engaging, they cannot replace skilled teachers or structured instruction. Traditional teaching allows for a slower, more gradual learning experience that helps students engage with ideas while also fostering direct, face-to-face interaction with teachers.
10 May 2026, 11:00 AM
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BJP’s West Bengal victory and cross-border anxieties

BJP’s sweeping West Bengal victory risks reigniting cross-border communal tensions, threatening minorities and regional stability across Bengal today.
9 May 2026, 15:14 PM
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What BJP’s win in West Bengal means for Bangladesh

The rise of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal is more than just another electoral outcome.
6 May 2026, 08:00 AM
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Without journalists’ well-being, press freedom will remain elusive

The unseen crisis of stress, insecurity, and institutional neglect in Bangladesh’s newsrooms
3 May 2026, 12:08 PM
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Uneven heat: How Bangladesh’s power cuts draw a map of inequality

Bangladesh’s power shortage has increased recently, placing additional strain on an already stretched national grid.
25 April 2026, 09:00 AM
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When a cartoon becomes a crime, again

In August 2024, shortly after the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s regime, BNP’s then Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman made a statement that earned him rare political capital, particularly in progressive and liberal circles.
22 April 2026, 08:00 AM
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What the ‘not all men’ defence always misses

The issue is not whether every man is guilty, but why male defensiveness so often overrides women’s lived experiences
20 April 2026, 18:19 PM

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