What Media Startups Reveal About Bangladesh’s Intellectual Property Culture
Beyond the copycat culture: imitation vs. innovation.
Headlines vs. Realities: The Crisis of Border Journalism
The complexity of the Bangladesh-India frontier.
Why Mobs Won’t Let Sufis Rest in Their Own Shrines?
Uprooting folk Islam’s final sanctuaries in Bangladesh.
Why the West and Big Tech Must Answer for Bangladesh’s unrest?
The social media linking New York and Paris to the chaos in Dhaka.
Six Months On, the One-man Newsroom Finds Its Voice
Independent, ad-free journalism; still small, still growing.
Mujibism Under Scrutiny: A New Era in Bangladesh
50 years after Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s assassination.
Prof. Yunus’s Leadership: Hope or Hurdles for Bangladesh’s Rights?
A year after the Nobel laureate got power, concerns remain.
How a Tycoon Used a Tragedy to Boost Reputation
Explainer: Aziz Khan’s calculated compassion on Milestone Tragedy
Remembering the F-7 Crash Victims: Time for Accountability
Milestone tragedy sparks urgent call to modernize air fleet.
NCP: The New Face of Protests to Politics
The youth-led party gained global recognize as a game changer.
Bangladesh’s Political Crossroads: Yunus vs. Hasina
The animosity between Yunus and Hasina dates back to the late 2000s.
An Unforgettable Experience
I went through one of the toughest times in my journalism career from July 15 to August 5, 2024. Being able to report on the mass uprising against the dictatorship, which began with a nonviolent student demonstration, was undoubtedly an unforgettable experience. We closely observed how the violent actions taken by the overthrown Awami League…
Telly Award—2023
Memories of Home, our visual story series on Myanmar memories of the Rohingya living in Bangladesh, won the Telly Award in three categories in the US in May last year. The two trophies for the award came from New York to Washington DC, and finally to Bangladesh. Coincidentally, I received the Edward R. Murrow Award…
Medialization and Journalism vs Viralism
Photo: Abdur Rahman Humanity is going through an enigmatic time right now, as it does at every turn. In December 2023, from Bangladesh, I saw that many poets, painters, singers, authors, and filmmakers have already become digital content creators, either because of various trappings of capitalism or due to technological blessings. This medialization has made…
20th year in journalism: the 'letterpress' to 'mobile' era
I’m in my 20th year in journalism. As a professional journalist, I still need to learn something new to survive, even after 19 years. Analyzing myself, this is the fundamental reason I am still attracted to journalism. Learning anything new is always a challenge that I relish. Thus, my journalism has had the most impact…
Context: children and smartphones
I captured both of these photos this year. The one on the left was taken in July from a Rohingya camp in Teknaf Upazila, Cox’s Bazar. The other photograph was taken in September in Dhaka’s Segunbagicha area. The latest generation of smartphones is taking over childhood everywhere. How safe or scary are these images? Please…
Flashback: Call of the Red-Rooster
Press show In August 2015, I joined “Laal Moroger Jhuti” (Call of the Red-Rooster) as a film worker. Our first team meeting was in the Dhaka residence of the filmmaker couple, Nurul Alam Atique-Matia Banu Shuku, also the writer-director and producer of the film. Then I started on a long voyage with this film and…
Is this panic just mine?
With my child, March 2022 “Today, the people of Bengal want freedom. The people of Bengal want to live. The people of Bengal want to have their rights,” the father of our nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, said in his historic speech on March 7, 1971. Despite a half-century of liberty, farmers continue to commit…
My journey and Murrow Award
Edward R. Murrow Award That trophy, which is the only one I’ve got in my career, has finally arrived. It’s most probably the first Edward R. Murrow Award, a prestigious national prize in the United States, to reach Bangladesh. Since 1971, the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) has recognized outstanding achievements in electronic journalism…