The historic struggle for housing by Bengali migrants in London

Shabna Begum’s ‘From Sylhet to Spitalfields’ offers a searing history of Bengali squatters in 1970s East London, and a chilling reminder of how migrants continue to be treated by a hostile British state

| Aug 25, 2023

Screen Southasia: Q&A session for ‘Sand and Water’

A conversation with the filmmaker Shaheen Dill-Riaz, director of ‘Sand and Water’.

| Jul 14, 2023

Making Prothom Alo “the enemy” in Bangladesh

Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League government have gone after Bangladesh’s top newspaper – the last one standing in the country’s media

| May 12, 2023

A Rohingya photographer’s dispatch on food-aid cuts in the refugee camps

The reduction in World Food Program rations for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, is exacerbating their immense suffering. Food insecurity and malnutrition, already acute, are worsening.

| Apr 28, 2023

Why the movement against Rampal plant in Bangladesh failed

Five years after a people’s movement to stop a power plant near the Sundarban, Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League government has pushed the project through. Why did this movement fail where others in Bangladesh have succeeded?

| Feb 24, 2023

Bangladesh’s BNP fights to make a political comeback

With massive anti-government rallies by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and their repression by the ruling Awami League-led government, battle lines are being drawn for the next general election

| Feb 02, 2023

Climate change in Bangladesh is driving a dengue outbreak in winter

Dengue is endemic in Bangladesh but the current outbreak is unusual in its scale and seasonality. Many experts have linked the surge in dengue cases with extreme climate events

| Jan 27, 2023

Glacial pace

Inside the repatriation process for trafficking survivors between India and Bangladesh.

| Nov 30, 2022

The story of Paani Apas

Community initiatives to address the water crisis in coastal Bangladesh.

| Nov 18, 2022

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