The Kitchen Cabinet
If the former advisers genuinely believe that a small and influential circle bypassed established processes, then they should go beyond hints and partial disclosures. They should provide a complete account of how decisions were made, who made them, and why the broader advisory council accepted that arrangement.
Bangladesh's Budget of Contradictions
A budget succeeds not because it contains attractive numbers but because citizens, investors, entrepreneurs, and international partners trust those numbers.
Rethinking the Path to Revive Shuttered Industries
Liquidity is a necessary condition for industrial revival, but it is not sufficient.
Bangladesh's Budget of Contradictions
A budget succeeds not because it contains attractive numbers but because citizens, investors, entrepreneurs, and international partners trust those numbers.
Why Offering Bangladesh on a Platter Is Not a Development Strategy
The binary is brutally simple. Nations that negotiate as supplicants get extracted. Nations that negotiate as sovereigns get developed.
Bangladesh First and the New Balancing Act
Tarique Rahman’s expected Malaysia-China sequence is a necessary correction to an India-centric past. Malaysia gives the visit diplomatic balance and China gives it strategic weight. But the correction will only succeed if it produces a wider foreign-policy basket without chipping away at Bangladesh’s sovereign decision-making space.
The Kitchen Cabinet
If the former advisers genuinely believe that a small and influential circle bypassed established processes, then they should go beyond hints and partial disclosures. They should provide a complete account of how decisions were made, who made them, and why the broader advisory council accepted that arrangement.
Modi's Demography Mission is Yet Another Hindutva Gimmick
The clearest sign of gimmickry behind the so-called mission to control Bangladeshi immigrants is that the government has appointed a non-demographer to head an exercise on demographic change.
West Bengal, A Month Later: It's Time to Get Real
It has been exactly a month since the BJP emerged the winner in the Bengal assembly elections. Some changes are more visible than others.
Rethinking the Path to Revive Shuttered Industries
Liquidity is a necessary condition for industrial revival, but it is not sufficient.
Why Bangladesh Must Build, Not Just Code
The foundations of a prosperous nation are not built in the cloud. They are built on the ground, in plants and workshops and export zones, by people who make things the world needs. It is past time to look down from the screen and begin.
Shifting the Gear on the Economy
What good economic policies actually look like -- and how to tell when they are missing
Our Moral Compass in Ruins
It should be the topmost priority of any government to ensure that our education system is running independently with the most competent and scholarly educators.
A State Within a State
The political cost of holding Salimpur is carried by whichever party is in power. But the failure is not new. The Awami League, the interim government, and the current administration have all inherited and repeated the same failure. In that sense, it is the same failure under three different governments.
How Abuse is Normalized
We owe our daughters, sons and every future generation something better than inherited shame. We owe them safety. We owe them dignity. Let silence end where abuse begins, on our screens and in our streets; through words that challenge, actions that protect, and a resolve that no longer looks away.
The Silent Threat Beneath Hormuz
The Strait of Hormuz is more than a regional flashpoint; it is the definitive laboratory for the 21st century maritime warfare.
What Does Dr. Khalil's Victory Mean for Bangladesh?
At a time when Bangladesh has often found itself on the defensive internationally, this victory offers a welcome opportunity for national confidence and unity.
The Cat Who Wasn't Impressed
The images of her with the cat and the milk aren't just pictures. They are a manifesto for a very specific kind of dignified living -- a life where glamour and domestic intimacy sit side-by-side, looking off into the middle distance, accepting the world exactly as it is.
