“Arts?!? Why would you study that?” “Only dumb kids who could not get in Science stream study that” and there are tons of other degrading one-liners students studying liberal arts face regularly in Bangladesh. Starting from the 10th-grade exams to higher education, liberal arts students are consistently scorned as if…

Let’s imagine a petroleum engineer with their PhD; working for mining company at the Athabasca oil sands at Alberta, Canada. They are probably banking a ton of money and making the oil companies millions if not billions of dollars. Now let’s think of the Waorani people from Ecuador; being indigenous…

Bangladesh and sexual violence towards women go back to the birth of the nation. In 1971, there was a campaign of systemic sexual violence of women by Pakistani soldiers. After the war, the “war babies” were abandoned in many cases as women as society shunned them severely. The survivors were…

Kalpana Chakma, a name that lives as a shame for the nation. A woman who was has been missing for 19 years now because she spoke up against the injustices she faced and had to give her life for this. The Chittagong Hill Tracts have been a place of contestation…

Atish Dipankar Srijnan (980–1054) was a Buddhist teacher/master from Bikrampur, Bangladesh. He is still held as an archetypal figure in many Buddhist schools of thought. Bikrampur Vihara which was rediscovered in Bikrampur in 2013; established the historicity of Atisha to Bangladesh. …

Once a good friend of mine told me to hate content critically, you have to have to go through the content first. I have read here and there about this movie is the epitome of misogyny but I’ve also heard rave reviews for general populous. When you thinly veil the…

For the last few days, this feeling of dread and gloom has been eating away at me. This undying surge of dread that something terrible is about to happen, have you ever felt that? This one life that has been given to us is extremely fragile. Think of a pristine…