Can playing a historic speech justify repeated bail denials?
About a month and a half has passed since the arrest and detention of leftist student leader Sheikh Tasnim Afroz Emi.
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When mobile journalism crosses the line into public shaming
Journalism is meant to hold power to account, and mobile journalism, using smartphones for reporting and storytelling, should have ideally taken that mission to new heights.
The cost of politicising VC appointment
Is involvement in politics a crime? Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon posed that question while defending the government’s decision to appoint vice-chancellors to seven universities and a new chairman of the University Grants Commission on Monday.
Is the NCP becoming what it once rejected?
The National Citizen Party (NCP) was born with a claim that it would not practise politics as usual.
Is selective amnesia the price of a new Bangladesh?
In the bargain for a new future, I did not consent to the erasure of the history that made this republic possible.
There's no neutral observer in digital violence
Silence tells women that even when men see the harm, they will not intervene.
'Have you seen my babies?'
Eight puppies in a sack and the death of our conscience
Rucsu in chains: How a university scripted its own crisis
Teachers, staff still holding up the polls, and Rucsu still in their grip
Is the uprising unravelling?
Extortion allegations taint SAD, shaking the student-led uprising that inspired a nation
When did we stop being human in the pursuit of a headline?
We have turned the victim's trauma into commodity in an insatiably frenzy for traction
Appointment by allegiance
30 of 47 newly appointed VC had ties to teachers' groups linked with BNP or Jamaat
Is Mahmudul's arrest a message?
A journalism teacher at Begum Rokeya University, Mahmudul Haque now sits in jail