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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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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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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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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Subalternity, Social Media, and Authoritarian Power in Bangladesh
How subalternity, social media, and religion intersect in Bangladesh, producing Islamophobia, Islamo-fascism, and new forms of authoritarian power.
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Shahbag to July Bangladesh’s Digital Street: Who Owns It in 2026?
In 2013, Bangladesh’s politics changed forever—not in parliament, but on Facebook. The Shahbag movement created the country’s first digital street, where legitimacy was produced through visibility, circulation, and attention rather than organisations or party hierarchies. Thirteen years later, as the 2026 election approaches, that unresolved digital terrain has become the central battleground of politics—louder, faster, and far more manipulated, but still decisive.
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Votes in the Fog: How Misinformation Will Shape the Next General Election
How misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation shape elections not only by spreading falsehoods, but by governing fear, silence, and moral belonging in digital political life.
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Bodies, Belief, and Power: Public Assemblies in Contemporary Bangladesh
“An anthropological reading of public assemblies in post–July 2024 Bangladesh, examining how presence, legitimacy, and institutional fragility interact.”
