Berkeley's Independent Bangla Voice
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?
How do the 2024 protests in Bangladesh and West Bengal have their roots in music, art & pop culture references?
Can Zohran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo & become the first South Asian and Muslim Mayor of New York City? Some say yes.
To address the transportation challenges of Bangladesh, did the answer lie right in front of us the entire time?
In this interview with Bangladeshi-American filmmaker, Fahim Hamid, we learn about perhaps the first attempt by a diaspora Bangladeshi to cover the events & legacy of 1971 in a feature documentary.
Twelve years ago, over 1,100 garment workers—mostly young women—were killed in the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh. But fast-forward, and South Asian fashion is trending again…without the reckoning.
As the home of more Asian Americans than any other county in the U.S., can Los Angeles County mobilize to step up to the challenge of Trump 2.0’s anti-immigrant agenda?
Have young people been at the forefront of the call to justice because they have the least power in society? Maybe it’s time to dismantle adultism.