Why are we all so excited about the Bangladesh football team after their win at the 2022 SAFF Women’s Championship, even though most of us have rarely, if ever, watched women’s football? When the society in Bangladesh is still rife with misogyny?
There is a growing concern that all the development in Bangladesh has come at the expense of democracy and rights. A common response to this concern is that at least over the last 50 years, this poor, war-torn nation has transformed itself into an almost middle-income nation where basic needs are met. Shouldn’t dignity be a part of these basic needs? And has this basic need
On the occasion of Victory Day, Mofidul Hoque, war crimes researcher and trustee of the Liberation War Museum, speaks to Shuprova Tasneem of The Daily Star about the incredible journey that Bangladesh has gone through, and what must be done to preserve that history.