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Meeting Maria
The bottles clanked. I hadn’t met her in years. But I was no longer able to take what...
Covid-19: A win for disaster capitalism and loss for the climate
If six months ago someone had proposed shutting down the whole world to resolve a crisis, they would...
The Team
Stormageddon is quite pissed at the boy. “What the heck is taking him so long?” he wants to...
A millennial’s tribute to Rabindra Sangeet
Scientists are still trying to invent time machines. But it has been here for a while now, hidden...
Please stop treating AI trends like fun and games
If not learning from past mistakes is a sport, then we are the undefeated champions of it. Every...
Updated Bangladesh labour laws: Gaping legal vacuum, lack of political goodwill and repressed rights to protest
As a country on a steady development track primarily attributable to its working class, Bangladesh seems to adopt...
The Rising Death Toll of Banshkhali Coal-Fired Power Plant
This piece was published in Volume 28 Issue 2, 2021 of the International Union Rights Journal. It was...
Why are rape victims still put on trial?
The rape culture in Bangladesh is nurtured by many disappointing legal loopholes. Some of the provisions are so...
A glimmer of hope for gender justice
Indian Supreme Court’s Handbook Recently, when I introduced myself to a male lawyer, he proceeded to give me...
Why the reluctance to rethink police powers?
Twenty-four years was an entire lifetime for Shamim Reza Rubel. On July 23, 1998, Rubel was picked up...
Why are our guardianship laws still so patriarchal?
This week, the High Court ruled that student information forms for examinations with the name of the student’s...
HC on Narsingdi assault: A country for the ‘civilised’?
Famous mountaineer Wasfia Nazreen popularly said that it was more difficult to walk on the streets of Dhaka...
Durga Puja as I Remember It
“Is this how it’s going to be from now on?” I asked myself before making peace with the...