Who Owns Public Culture After an Uprising?
After an uprising, culture often carries what politics cannot. This essay explores how music, festivals, clothing, and public joy become contested sites in post-uprising Bangladesh.
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After the Streets Reopened: Internet Regulation and the Crisis of the Digital Public Sphere in Bangladesh (2006–2024)
For nearly two decades, internet regulation has reshaped political life in Bangladesh. This essay traces how digital space became the country’s last political public sphere—first disciplined through law, and later destabilized into contentious speech anarchy after July 2024.
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Bangladesh: Culture, Faith & Everyday Life | Critical Essays | Digital Society, Work & AI | Public Writing
After July: Permanent Demand, Fragile Civil Society, and the Return of the Mob
After July 2024, Bangladesh did not enter stability or revolution—but an era of permanent demand. This essay explains why protests persist without transformation.
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Serial Killing, Rarity, and the Question of Recognition
A brief anthropological note Recent discussions around serial killing in Bangladesh have raised an important but easily misunderstood question. The issue is not whether serial killing is widespread—it is not—but how certain forms of violence become recognizable as patterns in the first place. In Bangladesh, identified cases of serial killing remain rare. That is a…
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Gendered Religious Visibility and Power in Post–July 2024 Bangladesh
In post–July 2024 Bangladesh, women’s religious visibility has become a site of political struggle. This essay shows how moral anxiety, victimhood narratives, and power converge—and why forcing women into “secular” or “religious” roles is itself a form of coercion.
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Critical Essays | Digital Dependency & Moral Volatility | Digital Politics & Public Sphere | Digital Society | Digital Society, Work & AI | Public Writing
Speaking Under Watch
In Bangladesh, Facebook posts no longer express opinion—they function as proof of loyalty. This essay examines visibility, surveillance, and populism in intellectual life.
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After 40 in Dhaka: Intimacy in the Gigacity
Why relationships after 40 feel fragile in Dhaka—where class, migration, religion, and gigacity life quietly reshape intimacy.
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From Photography to Promptography:
From light to code to language: photography is mutating into promptography. This canonical essay traces how image-making has shifted technologically and politically—and why the consequences are sharper in Bangladesh and the Global South.
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Digital Dependency and Moral Decline: How Social Media Reshapes Society
How dopamine-driven social media addiction is reshaping offline behavior, morality, youth culture, and intergenerational ethics—globally and in Bangladesh.
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