Celebrating 50 years of love, advocacy and resiliency. This article was featured on Dhaka Tribune. Re-published with the permission of the author. It’s Bangladesh’s 50th birthday, and we are celebrating. Flags are flying high as Bangladeshis exercise their right to praise each other, critic one another and speak in Bangla…

The historic night when Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez a.k.a AOC unseated veteran Joe Crowley for the oldest seat in New York came to my mind when a colleague mentioned policy windows while presenting a sexual assault case in class this week. Policy windows are “punctuations” or events that shift us away from…

Volume 1, Issue 3, Page 43 In the age of digital relationships, the #BacharLorai movement draws a connection between social innovation and disaster management in an online economy. As governments and billionaires run out of fuel, nudging a response from civic society could be the solution we are all looking…

A few words to celebrate a career that inspired many others and jump started my own. — I was always lucky to have found work straight out of university. An intern with the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport back in 2017, I was so excited to be wearing my suit and tie to work, pretending I was making policy and creating change as I worked on…

Dear Kobe, It wasn’t until my late 30s or mid 40s that I had planned to write something about how you inspired my childhood, my ambitions, my drive and the never give up attitude I shrine my central focus around. But here we are. April 2007, a chubby kid in…

I have been meaning to sit down with my first piece for a long time now, and although Monday night at 11 was definitely not the time I had in mind — but here we are. My Canadian story took birth on a late autumn evening in Dhaka, Bangladesh when…