Instead of holding the authoritarian regime accountable, two echelons of Bangladeshi society — the obscenely wealthy elite and the intellectual vanguard — have been its silent partners and absolvers.
The Wealthy Elite and Intellectuals Have Failed Bangladesh Read More »
Student protests and encampments have become the foremost proponents of Palestinian liberation and calling out the complicity of US policy and American institutions in occupation and genocide, as well as demanding change in Bangladesh.
An Eminent Tradition: Unraveling Bangladesh’s Past and Present Read More »
Religion fulfils a much-cherished desire to be part of a community. But troubles ensue when religious belief starts dictating what can and cannot be said.
Opium of the People Read More »
Culture Shocks In the fall of 1991, at the end of my first week of high school in America, I saw a picture of Allah. It was the year a highly intelligent Milwaukee man was luring young men to his home from the clubs and bars he met them, then killing them and storing their
It was within days of the murder of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, at the peak of the national protests that the killing sparked, at the center of which was, is, the Black Lives Matter movement, that they started appearing: Facebook posts on my feed of friends and
My community needs to stop saying “ALL LIVES MATTER” Read More »
