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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 happens to the buses that are not pink?

18 August 2026
Women-only buses may offer safer journeys, but they must not become an excuse to make the rest of Bangladesh’s transport system less welcoming to women
18 August 2026
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Women stood up to power in Bangladesh and India. Then patriarchy returned

16 August 2026
In July 2024, a young woman in Dhaka stood in front of a police prison van, trying to stop officers from taking away a fellow male student.
16 August 2026
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Analysis / Bangladesh could change cricket forever, again

16 August 2026
Every decade, Bangladesh finds a way to bend the arc of world cricket -- not through continuous dominance, but through a seismic upset
16 August 2026
Main Vaapas Aaunga movie review

Main Vaapas Aaunga: A quiet film about going home found its way through Bollywood’s noise

11 August 2026
Imtiaz Ali’s film turned memory, Partition and tenderness into an unlikely theatrical success
11 August 2026
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Nirmal Purja: How to remember a legend accused but never convicted

3 August 2026
Most of the obituaries praise Purja's feats in climbing while skipping past a chapter that, only two years ago, made international headlines: allegations that he had sexually assaulted two women.
3 August 2026
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A closer look at AI’s growing hunger for printed books

2 August 2026
Today, some books are taking a very different route. They are bought in bulk, scanned into machine-readable text and, in some cases, destroyed, leaving behind digital files that can be used to train artificial intelligence systems.
2 August 2026
The Odyssey

How Nolan altered Homer’s ‘Odyssey’, and why he had to

28 July 2026
Few works of literature have survived as many reinventions as “The Odyssey”. For nearly three millennia, Homer's epic has travelled almost as widely as its hero, acquiring new meanings with each age.
28 July 2026
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What India’s ‘cockroach’ protest tells us about South Asia’s generation of discontent

23 July 2026
When more than 10,000 young Indians marched from Jantar Mantar to the parliament in New Delhi on Monday—responding to a call by the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement—police launched a crackdown on them with tear gas and batons, allegedly injuring about 150 protesters and detaining many others.
23 July 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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