Berkeley's Independent Bangla Voice
“What has. Changed is not the tremendous power of the media, but who controls it and how power responds to it.”
The history described in those books was not lived by distant figures alone. It was witnessed, endured, and survived by people who are still around us today — by neighbours, relatives, parents, grandparents, teachers, and strangers whose lives were permanently marked by those nine months in 1971.
And as I stood in the black smoke engulfing Nasser Hospital, about to come under siege, I finally understood why he decided to remain at his post despite knowing the Pakistani Army was on its way, despite knowing he may leave his entire family behind: Our humanity should not be diminished by fear.
An original poem on life as an international student.
Does Osman Hadi’s legacy of promoting Bengali Muslim Ethnonationalism and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric divide both the country and its left?
Winning was hard. Governing a strained city, under a hostile federal administration, is an even harder test ahead.
Bangladesh’s public health history is not just a success in and of itself, but a model for emulation.
To embrace Bangla as our mother language has always been a battleground for defining national identity. However, what’s the full story?
From mass graves to microreactors, the former governor’s comeback is built on blood money.
Recent deportations of Bengalis and Muslims in India to Bangladesh have deep-seated roots to Assamese border tensions from the British colonial period, but why has it gaining national attention now?