Author: Mahmud Newaz Joy

Mir Yar Baloch has done this before. In May 2025, amid the fever of Operation Sindoor, he announced the “Republic of Balochistan” on X and asked…

The queue outside the polling booth in Bogura on the morning of February 12 stretched past the school gate, past a tea stall where the kettle…

There is a persistent assumption built into how modern societies measure progress: that formal schooling, by exposing the mind to knowledge, produces moral sensitivity as a…

The darkness that comes down on the Chittagong Hill Tracts after midnight is not something you can reason with. It is not the thin, negotiable dark…

A recurring habit in South Asian political commentary is to narrate a moral timeline: societies are imagined as having moved from a “secular past” to a…

In Bangladesh, a rise in fuel prices sets off a predictable chain reaction. Transport owners call for fare hikes. Authorities negotiate. Fares go up. And then—nothing.…

Bangladesh may be heading toward its first major crisis under the new government—not a political scandal, not a constitutional deadlock, but something far more immediate and…

Economic sanctions are one of the most widely used tools of foreign policy in modern international relations. They are often presented as a “middle path” between…

The death of Ali Khamenei has reopened a question that had long simmered beneath the surface of Iranian politics: if the Islamic Republic is to change,…

In the canon of twentieth-century decolonization, the story of Bangladesh is often told as a tale of war. The year 1971, the brutality of military repression,…