Tanveer Ahmed

Bangladesh’s historic Test victory in Australia offers Bangladeshi-Australians a rare moment of pride, visibility and belonging.

Among expatriates in Sydney—where the Bangladeshi community has grown steadily over the past two decades, driven largely by international students—there persists a lament about corruption’s corrosive reach.

Mental illness and the disabilities associated with it has long had a strong stigma in countries like Bangladesh. The pandemic only served to further highlight such problems.

As yet another stage of religious tension arises in the subcontinent, it was heartening to see Australians warm up to the great Bengali film director Satyajit Ray.

The murder last month of a young Bangladeshi woman in Sydney has sparked a debate about how best to raise children among the local community.

The pandemic has had a terrible impact on children, especially their education, among those living in the developing world. But just as it has accelerated trends that already existed such as digitisation, it has exposed the worrying problem of childhood obesity.

In the wake of the completed climate summit in Glasgow, it is worth considering the risks to poor countries of climate alarmism.

The aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic may bring out a new generation of leaders among the expatriate Bangladeshi communities.