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Unpatriotic Roles: ‘Matchmakers in the Dark’ Under Watch

By GM Forhadul Mozumder and Md Delwar Hossain (Dhaka Bureau) A certain quarter is recently engaged in propagating false, anti-military, and anti-state narratives from both inside and outside the country, with the aim of creating a rift between the Bangladesh…

Bridging the Social and Natural Sciences Divide: Reflections on the Book, “Halo Halo Ecologies”

by George Banez “Biologists seem to care more about eagles than the people living in the forests with them.” The executive director of the Social Development Research Center (SDRC), an anthropologist, told me that in 1989. The young me, a budding…

The July Charter ushers the hope of a solution to the political dilemma in Bangladesh

by Shamsul Basunia After the July 2024 uprising, people in Bangladesh expected to have shining days for their lives. But they still don’t have it, even until the writing of this report on November 6th on 2025. The National Consensus Commission…

How Was This Possible? – A short note by Partha Banerjee, Brooklyn, New York.

Zohran Mamdani’s victory is not just a historic victory for a new-generation immigrant youth. Not just a stunning victory for the son of a Muslim father and a Hindu mother who rose from nothing. Behind this victory is the huge…

Why Does India’s Farmer Policy Need Changes?

Why are the farmers of the Bhiwani and Charkhi Dadri districts staging an indefinite dharna at the Loharu Sub-Divisional Magistrate Office since July 16, 2025? More than 100 days of sit-in are still continuing, so why is the government not…

The intellectual corruption of Karl Schlögel

Karl Schlögel was once a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. Today, he calls for the reintroduction of military service—and has been awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for his efforts. It is a symbolic act so…

Drug Menace in India: How Deep are the Roots?

As per Media reports, on October 24, 2025, a video reportedly floated on social media, the footage of which went viral on Thursday, shows several girls covering their faces with scarves, entering the shop, purchasing liquor, and leaving briskly with…

The “Corporation of Silence”

Special Report: The construction of the media agenda in the capital of the Movimiento Popular Neuquino (MPN) [Neuquén People’s Movement, the dominant local political party]. Kiñe | One. What information appears when I Google the name “Claude Staicos”? An official page titled “laverdaddemilo.com“.…

Europe on the brink of a Geopolitical Blackout

Europe has entered a zone of energy fragility that is no longer temporary but structural. Its narrative as a global power is crumbling under a brutal reality: it depends on external decisions to keep its own lights on. Decades of…

Creating Religious Rift for Getting Political Power: A Himalayan Threat to the Indian Democracy 

Karl Marx stated that Religion is the opium of the people. The Indian political parties have understood the hidden importance and the utility of this Quote and started using it to lure the masses for their political gains. The Bharatiya …

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