Category: BDFA Blog
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Daily Star, Have You Forgotten Preeti Urang?
by R. Rahman Bangladesh forgets its most vulnerable far too easily, and nothing proves this more clearly than how quickly the country stopped talking about 15-year-old Preeti Urang. Preeti, an Indigenous tea garden child worker, died in February 2024 inside the home of The Daily Star’s then–executive editor, Syed Ashfaqul Haque, and his wife, Tania…
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The Price of a “Mistake”: Why Disciplinary Actions in Educational Institutions Are Largely a Gendered Phenomenon
by Maisha Mahjabeen In Bangladesh, when a girl gets expelled from her school or college, it is not the same as when a boy does, because often the reasons and consequences are never the same for women and men. From my experience of studying in a girls-only institution, I know that more expulsions are given…
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How Come Our Institutions Have Such Perverted Students?
by Asef Abdullah Content Warning: This piece includes explicit sexual language and descriptions of sexual violence taken from public online sources. The recent Reddit exposé case of BUET got me thinking, what’s the fault in our upbringing, and how can students from such reputed universities be so perverted? As the BUET exposé case is currently…
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