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

| 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

| 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

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

The election-commission conundrum

Is the newly formed Election Commission in Bangladesh up for the daunting task ahead?

| Apr 28, 2022

“Nobody is interested in Bangladesh”

Bangladesh’s global reputation requires not bigger and better statistics, but a new narrative.

| Dec 15, 2021

Stranded in Geneva Camp

Life in the largest refugee camp for Bangladesh’s Urdu-speaking community.

| Jun 27, 2019

Adrift

A short story

| Jun 24, 2019

What the Indian elections mean for Southasia

In conversation with photographer, journalist and activist Shahidul Alam. [INCLUDES THE TRANSCRIPT]

| May 23, 2019

Journalists On Trial

A SAMDEN-Himal initiative to track legal attacks on journalists and media groups in Southasia.

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