Perspective

2020: A year full of danger

Let’s face what lies ahead with open eyes: 2020 is going to be a very tough year for the world, and developing countries in particular. The infant decade has already begun with thousands fleeing to beaches in Australia from raging bushfires, and the Middle East bracing for more conflict after a US air strike in Baghdad killed Iran’s top general.
The Future of Digital is Human

Rafia dreads going to her phone carrier’s customer service centre.
Uninstalling Injustice

Let us do an exercise. Clench your fist, and then gently loosen your fingers a little.
Why crossfire will not solve our rape problem

The recent rape incident of a second year Dhaka University student has reignited widespread public frustration on the prevailing culture of impunity for rape in our country.
Localised Digital Service Tax: Points to ponder

Global trade is being disrupted by the tax disputes over technology giants who mostly operate from Silicon Valley.
PEOPLE’S VERDICT on ‘crossfire’ for rapists

In what was perhaps the most public endorsement of extra judicial killings by lawmakers in Bangladesh, multiple Members of the Parliament on January 14 came out in support of killing the rapists in “crossfire”.
Implementing SDG 2: Abolishing the ‘appetite’ for hunger

A woman is seen squatting on the ground in front of a large pile of garbage. She is holding a baby whose face appears over her shoulder.
Demystifying the data-governance conundrum

Mimi Onuoha, an artist and adjunct professor at New York University, made an art installation titled “The Library of Missing Datasets”.
A love letter to an unlivable Dhaka

How does it feel to live day in and day out in a city where the air is not only heavy with unhealthy particles but bitter recriminations and even a heavier sense of doom and gloom?
ILLIBERAL DEMOCRACIES: The looming oxymoron

As the impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump unfolds in the US Senate, something very strange is going on.