Special Article

Humanitarian Crises in Bangladesh After August 2024

Since August 2024, political instability, economic pressures, declining employment in the industrial sector, public health risks, rising poverty and climate-related disasters have compounded one another in Bangladesh. According to information from various sources, the humanitarian impact during this period has reached significant levels acros...

All You Need to Know About the 21st August Grenade Attack Case

On 21 August 2004, several military grade grenades were hurled at an Awami League rally in Bangabandhu Avenue, Dhaka. Twenty-four leaders and activists of the Awami League and its associate bodies were killed and over 300 others suffered splinter injuries in the August 21 attack. Among the dead were Ivy Rahman, then Mohila Awami League Chief and...

Bangladesh’s Lights Are Going Out - and the Government Has No Answers

Not long ago, Bangladesh had largely put chronic load-shedding behind it. Reliable electricity was no longer a daily gamble for most households and factories. Today, that modern reality has been brutally extinguished. Under the newly elected BNP government, building directly upon months of fatal policy inertia inherited from the preceding in...

The Unbroken Thread: Decades of Attempts to Erase Bangabandhu’s Family and the Secular Soul of Bangladesh

15 August 1975, 21 August 2004, and 5 August 2024 are not isolated tragedies. They mark a half-century assault by the same anti-liberation forces to dismantle a pluralistic nation. Three dates stand out in Bangladesh’s post-independence history like open wounds: 15 August 1975, 21 August 2004, and 5 August 2024. They are not coincidences....

Two Administrations, One Unbroken Failure: The Deliberate Weaponization of Fear in Post-July Bangladesh

From the interim regime to the newly elected BNP government, consecutive leaders have leveraged chaos to keep the public paralyzed and quiet. Two years after the so-called July Movement, Bangladesh is now trapped in state failure. Citizens were promised institutional reform, civil liberties, and strict adherence to the rule of law. Instead, the...