Tasneem Tayeb

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If dominance is present, the border between “agreement” and “compliance” becomes difficult to distinguish

The recently held parliamentary election in Bangladesh was watched more closely than usual.