And still, my father lives
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Why this year’s Nobel-winning brain technology matters to you
7 October 2026
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Why do humans naturally drift to the left?
6 October 2026
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From chai to shampoo: The extraordinary journeys of ordinary words
6 October 2026
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Between Bangladesh and Australia: Learning the rules of freedom
5 October 2026
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When loyalty decides what counts as facts: Welcome to the age of epistemic fragmentation
3 October 2026
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Revisiting the origins of Sufism: Competing narratives of authenticity and borrowing
2 October 2026
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International Translation Day 2026 / Beyond equivalence: Translation and the politics of being understood
30 September 2026
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Between Ghumparani masi-pisi and Baby Shark: Why Bengali lullabies still matter in the age of screens
30 September 2026
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Not love at first sight
29 September 2026
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Sword fighting in my head
Writing, at its core, demands a degree of honesty after all.
15 May 2026
The lost art of coffeehouse conversations
From London’s ‘Penny Universities’ to Dhaka’s modern cafés, coffeehouses have long shaped conversations, ideas, and human connection.
8 May 2026
How not to use AI in children’s education
Global AI frameworks often focus on optimisation, yet they overlook a unique reality of early childhood.
5 May 2026
Are your thoughts, feelings and actions really your own?
These processes explain how the emotional atmosphere around us can shape our thoughts, mood, and even our perceptions.
23 April 2026
When work and leisure fail, does protest fill the void?
If work cannot sustain meaning, and leisure cannot restore it, people will create new spaces where both can be reclaimed.
17 April 2026
How Asha Bhosle became the voice that refused every box
Asha Bhosle’s revolutionary voice dismantled cultural binaries, mirroring the complex evolution and spirit of South Asian womanhood.
13 April 2026
Learning to love the hyphen: Bangladeshi-American
After I returned to America from my first trip to Bangladesh, I felt more confident.
11 April 2026
Living as a stranger in the West: Rethinking the ‘migration crisis’
Human society is a product of migration. The first migration of our ancestors is believed to have been confined to the African continent, almost 100,000 years ago.
8 April 2026
Hope is like an art
Hoping is not just a feeling; it is more about thinking in a certain way.
3 April 2026
Can 12 Angry Men teach architecture students how to think?
A bad jury protects the old world from inconvenience. A good jury risks being altered by what enters the room.
1 April 2026
In the frozen kingdom: My Antarctic expedition
The expedition began in Ushuaia, Argentina, widely known as the southernmost city in the world. From there, we boarded an expedition vessel operated by Oceanwide Expeditions, setting sail into the unpredictable waters of the Southern Ocean.
31 March 2026
Waiting out the Iran war: Doha diary II
By 11 March, I was one of the few transit guests remaining in the hotel.
30 March 2026
The Bangladesh delta plan: Between certainty and reality
The models were not wrong, exactly. The science was sound. But the models were answering questions that nobody in that room had asked. We had travelled eleven hours to show people a mirror, and the mirror was reflecting something they did not recognise as themselves. It was reflecting us, the experts, not them, the locals.
21 March 2026
Doha diary: A historian amid the Iran war
On 28 February, I was woken around 8 am by a strange sound from my cell phone.
15 March 2026
One city, different nights
Inequality is not hidden; it is right in front of us, every night.
27 February 2026
Crossing the river in Dhaka: The last hundred meters
Later visits took me away from Dhaka, into small villages in the southern deltas. Again, into a world I did not know existed.
26 February 2026
In the shadow of distance: Bangladesh, memory, and the diasporic imagination
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.
25 February 2026
A first vote, a quiet hope
Casting my first vote felt like pride. It also carried a trace of guilt, the awareness that every choice means rejecting another.
15 February 2026
The politics of “self-care” in the times of despair
Much of the popular discourse on self-care in recent years has been reduced to commodified routines.
4 February 2026
Other side of George Orwell
After his firsthand experience of poverty, Orwell turned his attention to the English working class.
25 January 2026