*This article of mine is published in Bangla in The Daily Ittefaq.* When it comes to the issue of violence against women and girls in Bangladesh, the reality is an ugly one. Despite Bangladesh’s strides on the international stage as a “development star” and a favorite when it comes to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable […]
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*This article of mine is published on Women in the World/ New York Times.* More than 500,000 Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar seeking refuge in nearby Bangladesh since August. That accounts for half of Burma’s extremely persecuted ethnic minority Rohingya population. Although the group has been oppressed by the Burmese military and government for decades, this recent exodus can be traced back
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*On The Daily Ittefaq Here.* One of my earliest memories of the highly toxic and dangerous metal, mercury, was with my older sister when we were kids in Bangladesh. We would break glass thermometers and play with the liquid mercury, fascinated by how it moved over our the tiny hands of a child. Our little minds
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Since August 25th, over 400,000 Rohingya people, a Muslim minority group ethnic to Myanmar, have literally been pouring into Bangladesh, causing a humanitarian crisis amongst one of the most persecuted groups in the world. And the number of people fleeing the recent violence and persecution are not going to stop anytime soon. I went on CNN
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*This post of mine is also published on CNN.* Amnesty describes it as “collective punishment.” A senior UN official suggested the goal appears to be “ethnic cleansing.” Regardless of how it is described, it is clear the violence unleashed by Myanmar against its minority Rohingya Muslim population has been devastating. John McKissick, with the Office
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*This post of mine was published on CNN & is cross-posted on The Daily Ittefaq.* When I was growing up in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in the 1980s, I always wanted to live in a part of town called Gulshan. In my 7-year-old mind, it was the center of the universe. My family lived in an older (and
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I have always been fascinated by online media branding and marketing: How a company can change its entire image by changing its logo, updating its websites and social media. One of my favorite recent examples is how PolicyMic rebranded itself as Mic.com, and positioned itself as the voice of the coveted Millennial readership. But the brand
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*This post of mine was also published on The Daily Beast.* A spate of assaults confirms that secular Bangladeshi bloggers, and apparently those who dare to publish their work, are very much under attack in the one of the world’s most populated Muslim countries. Yesterday, two separate violent attacks on the lives of publishers and
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*This post of mine is also published on The New York Times/Women in the World.* In a year that has seen secular bloggers hacked to death in broad daylight, progressive voices in Bangladesh made a bold move this month to spotlight the plight of homosexuals in the country by launching Dhee, the country’s first lesbian
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*This post of mine was also published on The Daily Beast.* This morning, Raja, a 16-year-old Bangladeshi boy, was beaten to death at a local political party heavyweight’s home after being accused of stealing the BCL (Bangladesh Chhatra League) leader’s laptop and mobile phone from his Hazaribagh residence on the outskirts of the country’s capital, Dhaka. However, it
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