Berkeley's Independent Bangla Voice
The 2026 BJP electoral victory in West Bengal ushers in a new shift for the Indian border state, but how much of a role did the politics of visibility play here?
U.S. food aid to South Asia plays a huge role in the history and politics of the region, but did you know that it also permanently shaped our diet & cuisine?
“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?