I put high hopes in Shuddhashar. Not only because it has given me a platform to write, to discuss issues that I think are needed to be out there, to think critically and analyze our surroundings and realities, but also because it has given that chance to many others, without the restrictions of geographic borders, …
Shuddhashar has a role to play in the global revival of critical thinking Read More »
LGBTQ individuals are more vulnerable to threats and exposed to violence. They do not have the many common protective mechanisms that most other individuals enjoy around them, the first of which is family. From the outset, it seems like open season on the LGBTQ community. Across the globe, people are being killed, tortured, harassed, …
Violence against the LGBTQ community: Understanding the magnitude and vulnerabilities Read More »
Covid-19 has hit Bangladesh hard. With more than two hundred thousand reported cases of infection according to the government sources and 2600 deaths at the time of this writing, becoming among the top twenty countries with the most reported infections. Bangladeshi mainstream media and citizen journalists have also reported over the last few months of …
Can Bangladesh cope with the loss of ‘knowledge-guardians’ in the post-Covid-19 world? Read More »
When discussing or analyzing terrorism in Bangladesh, the narrative usually revolves around the “violent Islamist male” while females are overlooked. Inequality of the genders has long been institutionalized in various aspects of life. Even in crime, women are considered less capable than men. For a long time, it was thought that a woman has very …
Role of ‘the Female’ in Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Bangladesh Read More »
While the issue of refugees has been a rather contentious one in Europe for the last few years, receiving continuous and widespread media coverage, far away in Bangladesh two refugee situations have become increasingly a source of tension in the past month or so. One of them is the already overblown Rohingya refugee crisis, which …
On 14th of July, Ershad, as he is commonly known in Bangladesh, passed away at the age of 89. With the passing of this elderly man, many Bangladeshis expressed their sadness and eulogized Ershad with personal and sympathetic words. Indeed, in the last fifteen or twenty years of his life, Ershad had become the national …
Challenging Modern Authoritarianism Starts Much Closer than We Think Read More »
Indian election is massive, in all its manner. It is a massive practice in democracy, a massive logistical undertaking, a massive proposition of faith in election commission officials, a massive opportunity of power, and a massive gamble about the fate of a billion people. With all its massiveness either you are at awe at it, …
Is the Indian Election Only about the Billion People in India? Read More »
By the time Eid-ul-Adha arrived in Dhaka in late August of 2018, a lot of water has passed through the nozzles of Hatirjheel fountain, wowing the spectators enjoying their Eid Day joyrides. In the not so distant past though, there were a few days of something different, something that could be forgotten in the dancing …
The world is witnessing a textbook example of ethnic cleansing – this verdict regarding the Rohingya persecution by Myanmar made by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has been echoed by many intergovernmental and international organizations, and reported and repeated by the world’s media. Half a million of the Rohingya population, the natural …
