Zarin Tasnim

Making the best use of my literature degree

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Thoughts

When England lose, women bruise

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Thoughts

World Cup as a proxy for conflict and Fifa's convenient neutrality

Scene from Jafar Panahi’s Offside (2006). Photo: Collected
Features

Football, politics and defiance in Jafar Panahi's 'Offside'

Iranian women gather to perform the Eid al-Fitr prayer at the Imam Khomeini Grand Musalla Mosque in Tehran, Iran, on March 21, 2026. Photo: Collected
Features

Festival in a fractured world

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Bangladesh

Khaleda Zia's far-reaching contributions to Bangladesh's education sector

Mourners attend the funeral of a Palestinian journalist killed in an Israeli air strike in June 2025 at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Photo: Khamis Al-Rifi/Reuters
World+Biz

A global pattern of violence against the press

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Thoughts

America's moral bankruptcy in action: Geopolitics trumped Bengali lives in 1971

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Thoughts

Begum Rokeya, who weaponised humour to trigger the great masculine meltdown

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Thoughts

Can we still love billionaire Shah Rukh Khan in Modi's India?

On 15 November 1988, Palestine declared its independence, and the following day, 16 November, Bangladesh became one of the first 80 countries to recognise it as a state. Illustration: TBS
Thoughts

Bangladesh stood with Palestine long before the West found its conscience

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Thoughts

Hollywood cheers speeches, ignores genocide

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Thoughts

Feminism (Taylor's version)

Fired by US aid cuts, driven by courage: A female driver steering through uncertainty
Features

Fired by US aid cuts, driven by courage: A female driver steering through uncertainty