On the afternoon of 22nd February 2012, the streets of Dhaka turned into a sight we have seen many times on television, but probably never imagined would happen in our own neighbourhood. Read more »

Driving on a Monday through the roads of downtown Nicosia, Cyprus, one is bewildered by the sparse traffic and empty roads. “Hey where are all the people?” Read more »

“Online activists claimed that Rajib had been blogging against the activities of Jamaat and Shibir which made him a possible “target” of the religion-based organisation for his interpretation of Islam from the standpoint of a self-proclaimed atheist.” Read more »

On the 11th day of the Shahbag Movement, one of its leading activists and blogger was murdered.The Movement, which began as a protest against the International Crime Tribunal’s verdict to sentence war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah Read more »

61 years after 1952, we are experiencing another February. In Ekushey the spirit was that of the young people who protested a government policy decision and died on the streets of Dhaka from police bullets. Read more »

When I was a little girl, I always wanted Bangladesh to be ‘famous’. I did not like that whenever I went abroad, and people asked me where I was from, I would have to explain Read more »