Zakir Kibria

After wasting Tk 2,810 crore on Dhaka–Gazipur BRT, the government plans to spend another Tk 45 crore demolishing what took 14 years to build. Photo: Rajib Dhar 
Panorama

The Dhaka BRT: A masterclass in building a bus station for buses that don’t exist

Fixing the airport would dismantle an ecosystem of ‘expediting fees’ and patronage. Photo: Rajib Dhar
Panorama

The perpetual departure lounge: A nation stuck in its own queue

The bakery association had announced it would raise prices by up to 20% starting 12 September. Photo: Rajib Dhar 
Panorama

Bangladesh's bread price problem is bigger than the price tag

Damaged buildings and houses covered in mud stand next to the Likhu River following deadly flash floods and mudslides in Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal, August 30, 2026. Photo: Reuters
Panorama

Nepal disaster: The fourteen minutes Hollywood cannot sell

The political maps we overlay on the Teesta River’s body, photographed here in Sikkim, are fictions she can dissolve in an hour. Photo: Indrajit Das via Wikipedia
Panorama

The river will outlive maps: Teesta’s journey through geopolitics, myth and memory

Graphics: TBS
Panorama

Missiles over the Gulf, empty hearths in our homes

Illustration: TBS
Thoughts

The seventh signal: Bangladesh's foreign economic policy at the crossroads

The trolley operators are not responsible for crowds; they are responsible for redistributing trolleys from Chattogram. Photo: TBS
Thoughts

The trolley problem: How Bangladesh's airport chaos perfectly mirrors its governance

Pakistan’s nuclear command has shifted from institutional restraint to unprecedented centralisation, raising new fears of miscalculation in one of the world’s most volatile regions. Photo: Reuters
Thoughts

A changing nuclear order in South Asia

Representational photo of when Soviet ambassador Yakov Malik cast a veto at the UN Security Council in December 1971, blocking a US-backed ceasefire resolution aimed at preserving a united Pakistan and halting the liberation of Bangladesh. Photo: UN
Thoughts

1971: A veto, a new world order and the bloody birth of Bangladesh

Representational image. Photo: Reuters
Thoughts

Is Bangladesh’s LNG dependency threatening its energy sovereignty?

The bounty hunter’s ballad: How US foreign policy still plays by Wild West rules
Thoughts

The bounty hunter’s ballad: How US foreign policy still plays by Wild West rules