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How Sharif Hadi’s Anti-LGBTQ Views Exposed Fault-lines in the Bangladeshi Left

Does Osman Hadi’s legacy of promoting Bengali Muslim Ethnonationalism and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric divide both the country and its left?

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From Protest to Power: What Mamdani’s Mayorship Will Demand

Winning was hard. Governing a strained city, under a hostile federal administration, is an even harder test ahead.

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Resilience & Reinvention: Lessons from Bangladesh’s Public Health History

Bangladesh’s public health history is not just a success in and of itself, but a model for emulation.

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Bhasha Andolon: Diverging Visions of Bengali Identity

To embrace Bangla as our mother language has always been a battleground for defining national identity. However, what’s the full story?

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From Nursing Homes to Nuclear Deals: The Cuomo Playbook

From mass graves to microreactors, the former governor’s comeback is built on blood money.

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Stateless Bengalis of Assam: Weaponizing Identity, Migration & Border (In)Security

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?

Rolling the Dice on Reform: Canada’s Bet on Bangladeshi Youth

The focus on Bangladesh’s youth isn’t just feel-good policy commentary, but rather a cold strategic calculation.

Constitutional Malleability and Political Power: Bangladesh as a Case Study

Successive Bangladeshi governments have used the Constitution to cement their rule…will Dr. Yunus make a difference?

No Sign of Bangladeshi Voices in US reporting on Bangladesh

Why are Bangladeshi voices excluded from providing their analysis or narratives on the mainstream US media?

Childhood Lost: The Plight of Rohingya Refugee Camps 

With no end in sight to the plight of the Rohingya, children are faced with the choices of a life of hard labor and increasingly, recruitment into rebel groups fighting the Myanmar military.

Bengal Gazette Summer Reading List 2024

Check out our Summer 2024 Reading List compiled by Editors here at the Bengal Gazette!

Los Angeles for Gaza: The Domino Effect from Local Resolutions to Student Protests

Learn how one local leader has accomplished a resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza & how other communities can join the movement.

Living with Water: How Marina Tabassum’s Architecture Allows for a Climate-Resilient Future

How did Marina Tabassum create flood and cyclone-resilient architecture to address the needs of climate refugees living near the Bay of Bengal.

Reframing Genocide at the ICJ: Implications of Gambia v. Myanmar

Does the 2023 ICJ order to Myanmar to prevent genocidal acts set a new precedent for smaller states prosecuting genocide?

All Life Deserves to Live: My Experience living through October 7th

Elizabeth Bass ‘09 shares her experience of living through October 7th and how as a Russian-Bengali with roots in both Islam & Judaism, she processes it all in the grand scheme of our lives.

The Democratic Deception: How Biden has set himself for failure in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Elections

While the Muslim voter turnout in 2020 helped elect Biden as President, the tides are changing in 2024 due to his complicity on the War on Gaza.

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