The lead crisis we cannot see
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Unheard Voices
Who recycles Bangladesh’s garment waste?
3 September 2026
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Bangladesh running out of options on Rohingya crisis: Is there a way out?
2 September 2026
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Construction of the Sugandha-Kalatoli beach road / A grave threat to Cox’s Bazar’s sand dunes
29 August 2026
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Why have Nihar Koli and Samrat been sent back to their alleged abusers?
22 August 2026
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The reality of vocational training for Bangladeshi women
22 August 2026
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Can we save young Bangladeshis from deadly Mediterranean crossings?
22 August 2026
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Breastfeeding in Bangladesh: What is holding mothers back?
15 August 2026
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Fidel Castro at 100 / Why Fidel Castro’s legacy still haunts Washington
14 August 2026
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Thirst in the Sundarbans: The water crisis facing Munda women
12 August 2026
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Bound by dadan
At the heart of Bangladesh’s brick kiln industry lies a recruitment system that quietly sustains inhumane exploitation.
31 January 2026
The unfinished promise of July in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
Following the August 2024 uprising, every peace-loving citizen of the country hoped for radical change at all levels of state governance.
25 January 2026
Tragic legacy of Bangladesh’s captive elephants
Imagine a child ripped from its mother’s embrace, shackled in heavy metal chains, subjected to systemic starvation, and relentless beating until resistance gives way to fear.
24 January 2026
Fish stocks collapse in the Bay of Bengal, fishermen at risk
A historic decline in fish stocks in the Bay of Bengal is reshaping both the marine ecosystem and the lives of thousands of coastal fishing families.
24 January 2026
The lost soul of Jatra
What was once an art of resistance has become a struggle for survival.
17 January 2026
The little monarch of Madhabkunda
Although globally listed as Least Concern, national mapping can be misleading.
17 January 2026
One health, one future: The critical role of Bangladesh’s veterinarians
Bangladesh’s public health story is often told through the lens of hospitals, epidemics, and human suffering.
10 January 2026
The Tangail saree’s global fame and the weavers we forget
The Tangail saree has travelled far. Once woven quietly in riverside villages, it now appears in fashion catalogues, festival exhibitions, and heritage headlines.
10 January 2026
Why coastal communities don’t get enough milk and vegetables
The Ashtomashi Badh, or eight-month embankment, historically shaped the southwest coast of Bangladesh into an ek fosholer desh—a single-crop landscape—where peasants cultivated rice once a year using fresh water.
2 January 2026
We don’t need zoos, only safe places for wild animals
At the beginning of December, a lioness named Daisy slipped out of her cage at Mirpur National Zoo for a few hours, sparking panic and a rushed evacuation.
2 January 2026
Char Haats: The unequal economics of the chars
For char residents, this unequal exchange is not new.
26 December 2025
How many more deaths before mob violence is stopped?
But beneath the surface of religious fervour lay a more calculated motive.
26 December 2025
Digging deeper into Barind’s water crisis
Farmers speak from lived experience, and their stories reveal the uneven spread of crisis across the region.
19 December 2025
A grieving street dog and reflections on environmental humanities
This human-made tragedy, however, was partially remedied by "humans" themselves.
19 December 2025
Songs of the soul: Baul Binoy Sutradhar’s inner world
Born in 1954 in Paikpara Union under Chunarughat Upazila of Habiganj district, Binoy was the son of a local farmer, Sudhir Chandra Sutradhar, and Snehalata Sutradhar. Before he was even seven, he lost his father, a loss that cast the family into deep hardship.
12 December 2025
What the new labour ordinance means for workers
A total of 125 sections have been amended or revised in the ordinance.
12 December 2025
Untold stories of young Bangladeshi migrants in France
Around 15 years ago, a new phenomenon emerged: the arrival in France of very young people
5 December 2025
Stories from the hanging village
The hungry river is coming towards us. Where will we go now?
5 December 2025
Faith, art, and livelihood in patachitra
Patachitra is considered one of the oldest Bengali forms of audio-visual storytelling.
28 November 2025
We don’t need more data - we need to understand it
The question is no longer about data scarcity, but about data governance: who holds it, who uses it, and to what end.
28 November 2025