RUBAYET HASAN
West Bengal Politics and Bangladesh’s Security Outlook
SAJIBUR RAHMAN DIPTO
How Myanmar’s Junta Weaponizes Negotiation
SHAHIN REZA AND IQBAL AHMED
The Anatomy of a Captured Banking System
Podcasts
National
Jun 18, 2026
The Anatomy of a Captured Banking System
Apr 18, 2026
Post-Election Bangladesh and Awami League’s Return Aim
Apr 18, 2026
Language, Power and Protest
Mar 14, 2026
Two-Thirds Majority and the Fragile Future of Democratic Balance
International
Jun 17, 2026
World Cup craze begins
On June 11, 2026, the global axis will shift toward the North American continent. For thirty-nine days, the traditional metrics of geopolitical power will be momentarily eclipsed by the flight of a ball. The 2026 FIFA World Cup, a gargantuan undertak...
Jun 17, 2026
What BJP’s Bengal Win Means for Dhaka
Apr 18, 2026
Strait of Hormuz, Global Energy and Power Politics
Apr 18, 2026
India-Israel: The Iron Alliance and the Threat to the Muslim World
Editorial
18 April 2026
Bangladesh's Democratic Crossroads and the Lost Caretaker System
Bangladesh’s Democratic CrossroadsBangladesh’s present political debate cannot be separated from one of the most consequential institutional decisions in its recent history: the abolition of the caret...
Technology
Sep 17, 2025
The AI Billionaire Boom
Jun 17, 2025
Behind the Firewall: The Fragile State of Cybersecurity in B...
Apr 08, 2025
The Science of Disinformation and Digital Manipulation
POLITICS
Jun 18, 2026
West Bengal Politics and Bangladesh’s Security Outlook
The reverberations of electoral politics are rarely confined within national borders in South Asia. In a region where hi...
Jun 17, 2026
A Nation Arguing in a Dead Language
The political language of Bangladesh is undergoing a profound transformation as the political scenario is evolving. For...
Mar 14, 2026
The Rise of the Shadow Cabinet in Bangladesh
Bangladesh may be standing at the threshold of a political transformation that could redefine the grammar of its democra...
Feb 28, 2026
The Rights Long Denied
Bangladesh's democratic test begins with the national election Bangladesh is approaching an election that is not merely electoral in character but existential in consequence. What lies ahead on February 12 is not a routine transfer of power, nor even...
July Revolution
Apr 18, 2026
Islam, Identity, and Politics in Post-Uprising Bangladesh
After 1st Part…Bangladesh today finds itself at a political crossroads where history, identity, and governance converge with unprecedented intensity. The upheavals of the July 2024 Revolution exposed the fragility of state institutions and the struct...
Apr 18, 2026
The July Charter, Referendum and BNP’s Betrayed Promise
Bangladesh, since its independence, has struggled with the tension between political idealism and practical governance. Yet rarely has this tension been so starkly illustrated as in the saga of the July Charter, an ambitious framework aimed at recali...
Mar 14, 2026
Revolution at Risk
Revolutions are not measured by the day a ruler falls, but by the day justice stands unafraid. Bangladesh today is suspended between those two dates. Eighteen months after the uprising that culminated on August 5, 2024—an event etched into national c...
Middle East
Apr 18, 2026
Iran After Khamenei
Apr 18, 2026
Who is next after Iran?
Mar 14, 2026