Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s murky games to get Saima Wazed to the WHO
Sheikh Hasina’s push to make her daughter the regional director of the WHO South-East Asia Region bodes ill for Southasia
Disha Shetty | Oct 27, 2023

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
Ashraf Hoque | 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’.
The Editors | Jul 14, 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?
Anupam Debashis Roy | Feb 24, 2023

The election-commission conundrum
Is the newly formed Election Commission in Bangladesh up for the daunting task ahead?
Anupam Debashis Roy | Apr 28, 2022

“Nobody is interested in Bangladesh”
Bangladesh’s global reputation requires not bigger and better statistics, but a new narrative.
Naomi Hossain | Dec 15, 2021

Stranded in Geneva Camp
Life in the largest refugee camp for Bangladesh’s Urdu-speaking community.
Gabriele Cecconi | Jun 27, 2019

What the Indian elections mean for Southasia
In conversation with photographer, journalist and activist Shahidul Alam. [INCLUDES THE TRANSCRIPT]
The Editors | May 23, 2019

Journalists On Trial
A SAMDEN-Himal initiative to track legal attacks on journalists and media groups in Southasia.
SAMDEN and Himal Southasian | May 03, 2019
