The Radda attack shows the dangers of rising parallel power
1 October 2026
An excavator is difficult to hide, and so are more than 200 people, many of them masked and carrying weapons, moving through a neighbourhood in the middle of the night.
1 October 2026
We tell women to speak up, but who defends them when they do?
25 September 2026
Within a little over two weeks, three women died under circumstances that harshly exposed a familiar failure: our inability to protect women from violence within marriage.
25 September 2026
A preventable outbreak in a system that did not act in time
12 April 2026
In March alone, amid a sudden measles outbreak, some 229 patients died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) awaiting ICU beds. Ninety-one of the deceased were children. Many died on waiting lists, never receiving the treatment they needed, and the numbers are still rising.
12 April 2026
Time to strategise the long-term cost of energy stability
2 April 2026
The current approach has kept conditions stable for now, but it also risks something closer to Friedrich Nietzsche’s idea of recurrence, where what is unresolved does not disappear.
2 April 2026
Building energy resilience in an age of global shocks
16 March 2026
For Bangladesh, the latest tensions in the Middle East highlight how intricately national energy systems—and domestic economic stability—are now intertwined with global political developments.
16 March 2026
Six years on, have we learnt our lessons from Covid?
8 March 2026
The memory of the pandemic crisis should serve as a reminder that pandemics do not just test hospitals; they also test the preparedness, coordination, and foresight of entire systems.
8 March 2026
When coercion becomes a governance mechanism
3 March 2026
If dominance is present, the border between “agreement” and “compliance” becomes difficult to distinguish
3 March 2026
Bangladesh’s foreign policy enters its post-election test
23 February 2026
The recently held parliamentary election in Bangladesh was watched more closely than usual.
23 February 2026
One step forward, two steps back
Afghanistan is a dangerous place for women. According to a new global index developed by Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, and the Peace Research Institute of Oslo, Afghanistan is the second worst country for women in the world, after war-ravaged Syria,
25 May 2019
ANC’s unconvincing election victory: Legacy of the apartheid regime
The first half of May saw the South African general elections making headlines in all of the major international news channels. From political analysts to economists, everyone was having their say about the difficult path the African National Congress (ANC), especially its leader Cyril Ramaphosa, was having to navigate to win people’s vote. The reason?
17 May 2019
The invisible people of Venezuela
Venezuela is in a limbo. The country has two presidents fighting over legitimacy; two superpowers eying its rich oil fields and gold mines; an economy that is on the verge of collapse with inflation reaching one million percent and external debt shattering the roof at more than 175 percent of GDP; and an unfolding humanitarian crisis that has forced more than three million people to flee to neighbouring countries seeking refuge.
11 May 2019
Celebrating people’s uprisings in Algeria and Sudan
The vigil of hundreds and thousands of peaceful protesters on the streets of Algeria and Sudan speaks of the same sense of collective disenfranchisement, juxtaposed with a desperate optimism, that lit the signal fires of change in Egypt’s Tahrir Square in 2011.
4 May 2019