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.
Tag: Bangladesh
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.
How Martyred Intellectuals’ Day changed the course of Bangladesh’s history
The story of Dr. Mujibur Rahman, a pioneer in cholera research, who survived the December 14 anti-intellectual killings.
The Role of “Place” When Addressing Labor Rights among Global Supply Chains
For those of us working on labor issues in global supply chains, April 24, 2013 will always be known as the deadliest garment factory accident in history.
1971: This is not my story, This is part of who I am
A daring tale of how one Bengali family from West Pakistan risked it all to seek refuge after the Liberation War.
Hidden in the Quill: Satyendranath Bose
The Bengali Physicist known today as the “Father of the God Particle” whom half the particles in the universe obey.
Partition & Fiction: My Tryst with Amitav Ghosh’s Shadow Lines
How does Amitav Ghosh’s ‘Shadow Lines’ teach about oneself and the history of the Partition of Bengal?
The Forgotten Survivors: Two Voices of Partition Refugees in Bangladesh
Addressing the aftermath of 1947 in what is today Bangladesh and a blind spot in Partition history centered on refugee experiences in East Pakistan.
The Sounds of Jackson Heights
Check out our first video essay by Rudrani Ghosh on the beautiful neighborhood of Jackson Heights in New York City!