Shagufe Hossain

The writer is the founder of Leaping Boundaries and a graduate student at McGill University.

Teep or Hijab: Why not both?

Are teeps truly a Hindu religious symbol?

Fear, loss and isolation

Humans are social creatures. While all animals have a need to communicate, none have quite the same ability or need to organise themselves into communities the way humans do.

Citizens’ participation in formulating health policies can be a game changer

In the olden days, in the city best known as a democratic city-state, where, arguably, the concepts of citizenship and democracy emerged, there was something called Ecclesia. Here,

Finding the fingerprint of creation

I started to write this on the night that is deemed the holiest night of the holiest month of the year by Muslims.

Reflections from a conversation with the Dalai Lama

Is forgive-ness a phenomenon that is learned or is it something that some of us are inherently better at than others?

The burden of the ‘Eves’ of this world

"EVE-TEASING”, the colloquial term for public sexual harassment in use despite directives being issued by the High Court about changing it to a more appropriate term, alludes to the monotheism’s (mainly biblical sources) creation story concerning Adam and Eve.

A personal tribute to Nusrat Jahan Rafi

Mf first visit to a madrasa school for female students was in July 2014. We met in a large rectangular room, with a faint damp stench,

On Power: A high unaccounted for

Last year, an English daily published a report that the police arrested at least 21,883 suspected drug-peddlers and addicts across the country between May 18 and June 21 as part of the anti-drug drives.

April 5, 2022
April 5, 2022

Teep or Hijab: Why not both?

Are teeps truly a Hindu religious symbol?

October 10, 2021
October 10, 2021

Fear, loss and isolation

Humans are social creatures. While all animals have a need to communicate, none have quite the same ability or need to organise themselves into communities the way humans do.

August 11, 2021
August 11, 2021

Citizens’ participation in formulating health policies can be a game changer

In the olden days, in the city best known as a democratic city-state, where, arguably, the concepts of citizenship and democracy emerged, there was something called Ecclesia. Here,

May 31, 2020
May 31, 2020

Finding the fingerprint of creation

I started to write this on the night that is deemed the holiest night of the holiest month of the year by Muslims.

November 18, 2019
November 18, 2019

Reflections from a conversation with the Dalai Lama

Is forgive-ness a phenomenon that is learned or is it something that some of us are inherently better at than others?

July 4, 2019
July 4, 2019

The burden of the ‘Eves’ of this world

"EVE-TEASING”, the colloquial term for public sexual harassment in use despite directives being issued by the High Court about changing it to a more appropriate term, alludes to the monotheism’s (mainly biblical sources) creation story concerning Adam and Eve.

April 19, 2019
April 19, 2019

A personal tribute to Nusrat Jahan Rafi

Mf first visit to a madrasa school for female students was in July 2014. We met in a large rectangular room, with a faint damp stench,

January 19, 2019
January 19, 2019

On Power: A high unaccounted for

Last year, an English daily published a report that the police arrested at least 21,883 suspected drug-peddlers and addicts across the country between May 18 and June 21 as part of the anti-drug drives.

December 9, 2018
December 9, 2018

Shame, guilt, anger—and lives lost

The body of 15-year-old Aritry Adhikary was found hanging from the ceiling fan of her room, with the door locked from inside, at her Shantinagar home on Monday.

October 11, 2018
October 11, 2018

Make space for the art of free speech

It is no coincidence that the word “articulate” begins with the word “art”. There is an art to the formation of clear and distinct sounds in speech.

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