How the banned film Satluj reopened the darkest wound in Punjab's history
What Satluj has achieved is not a guaranteed result in 2027 but something arguably more consequential for now.
19 July 2026
Institutions should not be so dependent on the PM for routine governance
Over the past few months, a phrase once quite common has again entered Bangladesh’s official communication: “following the prime minister’s order.”
17 July 2026
The real reason Netflix’s ‘I Will Find You’ became a streaming hit
The latest Harlan Coben adaptation proves that suspense and emotional stakes can be more compelling than shock value
13 July 2026
11 dead over the World Cup: The real problem is not football
On the night when Argentina played Egypt last week, 38-year-old auto-rickshaw driver Shariful Islam was watching the match at a roadside tea stall in Cumilla as Lionel Messi missed a penalty.
13 July 2026
What Jamir Nazir’s Commonwealth win tells us about literature in the age of AI
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
Can the China-Myanmar-Bangladesh Economic Corridor become a reality?
China's proposed economic corridor promises strategic opportunities for Bangladesh, but Myanmar's prolonged conflict makes its realisation a distant prospect.
1 July 2026
Can tourist visa resumption mend our bilateral ties with India?
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
Why fencing the Myanmar frontier alone won’t work
A line on a map cannot contain a war economy, armed actors, or a collapsing frontier next door.
18 June 2026
How to choose the right AI for the right task
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
What the 57th border talks refused to say about BSF killings and push-ins
When diplomatic talks fail, the language of their conclusion is usually the last to admit it.
14 June 2026
Do Mamata and the Trinamool Congress have a political future?
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
By ‘justifying’ border killings, has the home minister conceded the Indian narrative?
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
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