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Has India learned student repression from Bangladesh?

Nationalistic historiography has made free-thought heresy

All our movements wane into single-issue demand negotiations.

There was a large degree of antipathy from the state towards migrant workers

সৌ‌দি‌তে গৃহকর্তার ধর্ষণের শিকার হয়ে অন্তঃসত্ত্বা হয়ে দেশে ফেরা মে‌য়েটার কথা শুন‌বেন? না‌কি পিটিয়ে হাত পা ভেঙে দেওয়া মে‌য়েটার কথা।…

Their problem is sharing wealth and power with too many people

The sheer lack of operational training or professionalism from the police was terrifying.

Walking into college/university, our first expectation as freshers would be: making friends, knowing the campus, being welcomed. Sadly, back home,…

For the first time in our life we saw magic to be unfolded before our eyes. Suddenly Dhaka felt like a livable city.

Photo: MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU Oh, here the barbed wires grow Here is the dumpster of the great geography — Artcell,…