Zara Rahman

Zara Rahman is a researcher and writer whose work sits at the intersection of technology and social justice. She has written about digital policy in Bangladesh since 2015.

Unpacking Digital Bangladesh

In 2021, Bangladesh’s digital policy is being used for connection, repression and surveillance.

Jan 04, 2022

Latest Articles

How Southasia and Oman intertwined

In ‘Sovereigns of the Sea’, the histories of Omani sultans in the age of empire speak to the interconnectedness of Southasia, West Asia and East Africa

Crisis in India’s bread basket

How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity

Images of the two Punjabs, partitioned yet forever alike

A photographer’s journey through the Punjab in India and Pakistan shows a land and a people still tied together, despite Partition and the militarised border in between