Faith, art, and livelihood in patachitra
28 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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We don’t need more data - we need to understand it
28 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Dhaka’s forgotten girls: Living without safety, identity or rights
21 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Why is secondary education becoming unaffordable?
21 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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The hands that clean, the Harijans we refuse to see
14 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Who owns Dhaka’s streets?
14 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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RMG’s automation and green growth have a gender problem— Don’t ignore it
7 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Why Bangladesh still believes teachers should be poor
7 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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The hidden workforce: Inside Dhaka’s domestic work economy
31 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Hearing the sonic image of Tiger: Survival lessons from the Sundarbans
31 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Where safety never reaches
Behind the walls and the daily chaos lies a harsher reality for the marginalised communities living in Dhaka’s bursting slums.
19 September 2025, 18:00 PM
The last monkeys of Sadhana Aushadhalaya
In Gandaria, one of the oldest neighbourhoods in Puran Dhaka, two unlikely legacies are fading together: a century-old herbal medicine company and the monkeys that once thrived in these streets.
19 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Tree Hospital in Barguna: Preserving memories, nurturing the environment
The symbolism of the Tree Hospital is powerful. It shows that preserving the environment is not only about protecting forests far from human settlements
14 September 2025, 09:02 AM
The weight of untouchability: Rabidas community in Bangladesh
In the markets of North Bengal, the Rabidas community has long endured prejudice, their cobbler’s stools passed from one generation to the next.
12 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Owls in peril as forests fall
When dusk falls over the countryside, a hush settles on the trees. Once, that silence would be broken by the soft “whoo-whoo” of a spotted owlet or the eerie call of a barn owl gliding above rice paddies. Now, the night feels strangely silent.
12 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Last witness to a lost kingdom: Landslides push Tripura families to the brink
Once spread across several areas of Chunarughat, the Tripura people have now been reduced to just 24 families
5 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Because no one asked: Archiving the Rohingya past
It began with a question, the kind of question that arrives quietly, almost like a sigh.
5 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Indigenous Lives on Screen
Aung Rakhine, director of Mor Thengari (My Bicycle, 2015)—the first Chakma-language feature—shares his vision for portraying Bangladesh’s indigenous lives, as he prepares his next film, Mro, on the stories and beliefs of the Mro community.
29 August 2025, 18:00 PM
How to rescue Bangladesh from the ambulance mafia
In the critical moments of a medical emergency or sudden accident, the very service meant to save lives—the ambulance—often becomes another source of dismay.
29 August 2025, 18:00 PM
How Dhaka’s rickshaw pullers bear a hidden health toll
At dawn, when Dhaka is just beginning to stir, thousands of rickshaw pullers set off on their daily grind.
22 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Where have all the squirrels gone?
Once, the rooftops, orchards, and gardens of Bangladesh stirred with the restless energy of squirrels.
22 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Jackfruit: Bangladesh’s forgotten superfruit
Jackfruit remains a vastly underutilised resource in our food system
15 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Beyond the snake charms: The changing lives of the Bedes
The Daily Star (TDS): What do historical and literary sources reveal about the true origins of the Bede community?
15 August 2025, 18:00 PM
“Most couldn’t say what a home looked like”
The Daily Star (TDS): What inspired you to begin interviewing people living on the streets?
8 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Kharia’s last speakers: Holding on to a fading world
In the heart of Moulvibazar’s Sreemangal upazila, inside the Bormachhara Tea Garden, a language is quietly slipping into oblivion.
8 August 2025, 18:00 PM
The jonaki poka: We may be the last generation to see it
“September 21, 1945, that was the night I died.”
1 August 2025, 18:00 PM
How coastal communities are becoming landless
‘We are surviving by fighting the river’s current,’ said Morjina Khatun, 50, of Katmarchar village in Koyra upazila of Khulna district, wiping away tears. Morjina Begum’s struggle began after her husband Nurul Islam died in 2015. Natural hazards have made her struggle even more difficult.
1 August 2025, 18:00 PM
Why not a new Bangladesh for labourers?
The Daily Star (TDS): What is the current status of the Labour Reform Commission and its activities?
25 July 2025, 18:00 PM
The vanishing crows of our cities
Once a staple of every morning in cities across Bangladesh, the unmistakable caw of the crow is now becoming a rare sound.
25 July 2025, 18:00 PM
Insights from Melbourne and Dhaka
The gig economy is rapidly reshaping urban life, yet digital labour platforms fail to provide adequate support to the workers who keep this economy running.
18 July 2025, 18:00 PM