Aklima is the eldest daughter of a family in Mymensingh. Her father works as a vegetable vendor; her mother occasionally helps out, but during Aklima’s childhood, she mostly stayed at home, grooming her to impress prospective husbands.

It was while shopping for jewellery for my wedding last year that I realised just how much of the gold in the glitzy, gilded shops are possibly smuggled.

I have thought of the road to Dewanbari ever since I took on the herculean (to me) task of writing about it. I imagined the place when

Today, sitting on my balcony in Dhaka, with my face to the south looking down at the green neighbourhood park, I look back on my

In Dhaka’s Korail slum, futures are made and unmade. It is bloated with vulnerabilities. Lack of basic living conditions, sudden fires,

“Mariam, get up!” comes a scream from the other side of the room. Mariam’s eyes open and she is forced back to reality. The sweet

Nowadays, I am afraid to buy most kinds of food items in Bangladesh. Contamination of fruits and vegetables is widely prevalent and

When Ahad Ali, a landless farmer in Bharaura village of Moulvibazar’s Srimangal upazila, received Tk 500 from Srimangal municipality

You would think that a fortune teller would see it coming. But even they were surprised by the unpredictability of the ups and downs

Nauroze could recall each strange detail about that summer that led to monsoon with the greatest clarity. She was a child invested in

Directed by Johan Renck and written by Craig Mazin, HBO’s five-part miniseries aired earlier this month takes us back to the worst

Any form of television or literature targeted towards female young adults have a few tried and tested tropes—protagonist gets a

The crackpot president of the United States of America has so snarled up the gangplank to truth these past 29 months that no matter

The elections are over, and India has spoken. Or so I hear. Modi will go on to rule for five more years, the country will systematically

One thing is apparent from the budget promises of this year—the “tide of development” that the country seems to be surfing on will

By now it has been established that women have less access to opportunities for social, economic and political advancement. National

Last week, a post did the rounds on social media, featuring a visually impaired couple who were looking for a job to support their

In our country, crime rates are high and some get lots of media attention. But the way the overall system works starting from the crime

This is what I fear. That a day will come when having just two daughters in the house won’t be enough. That the daughters who stayed by

Throughout the month of Ramadan, the Directorate of National Consumers’ Rights Protection (DNCRP) continued to hit the headlines