Author: Mahmud Newaz Joy

Matarbari deep-sea port was supposed to be finished by 31 December this year. In the first week of April, the Chattogram Port Authority put physical progress…

For years, Bangladesh’s campaign against child marriage had one unacknowledged ally, which was embarrassment. Families that married off a fourteen-year-old tended to explain themselves: poverty, a…

Every August, Bangladesh briefly rediscovers dengue. Newspapers publish daily case counts, television crews film fogging vans, and city corporation officials promise crackdowns. By November, when the…

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif circled the Kaaba on the morning of 7 August, Field Marshal Asim Munir — his chief of defence forces — a…

১৫ আগস্ট, ১৯৭৫। ভোররাত সাড়ে চারটা নাগাদ ধানমন্ডির ৩২ নম্বর বাড়ির গেট ভাঙল ট্যাংকের চাকা। আধঘণ্টার মধ্যে বাড়ির ভেতরে যা ঘটল, সেটাকে আমরা ইতিহাসের বইয়ে এক…

মাত্র পঁচিশ বছরের জীবন বিরসা মুন্ডার। কিন্তু তার জীবন অবিস্মরণীয় ও এর প্রভাব অসীম। জন্মভূমি, গ্রাম বা শহরের সীমা ছাড়িয়ে তাঁর নাম ছড়িয়ে গেছে দেশের নানা…

There is a particular kind of frustration that seems to travel easily across borders these days. Born into smartphones, precarious jobs, and a political class that…

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…