H.M. Nazmul Alam

H.M. Nazmul Alam is lecturer at the Department of English and Modern Languages of the International University of Business, Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT).

What’s happening at Dhaka airport is a symptom of deeper rot

There are few places in a country that so completely represent its image as an airport. It is both a threshold and a mirror, reflecting not just the physical state of a nation but the moral tone of its institutions. For Bangladesh, Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) has long stood as that symbolic gateway—the first and last impression for millions who travel in and out of the country each year.

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Why survival in Dhaka feels accidental

When a city demands miracles to survive its own design, something fundamental has gone wrong.

1m ago

The HSC result debacle exposes long-hidden cracks in our education

For two decades, Bangladesh lived under a comforting numerical, statistical, and sweetly deceptive illusion.

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Tarique Rahman and the question of political renewal

His reemergence through the recent interviews represents both a promise and a paradox.

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Bangladesh can’t afford to remain a one-legged economy

For Bangladesh, export diversification has become an existential demand.

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Five and a half years ‘gone with the wind’

Breathing has become more lethal than smoking. How does one quit air?

2m ago

Teenage gangs and a failing social order

What’s fuelling this surge in teenage crime?

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Banning an autocrat's words risks strengthening her legacy of fear

Let all voices—whether popular or poisonous—be heard.

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November 13, 2025
November 13, 2025

What’s happening at Dhaka airport is a symptom of deeper rot

There are few places in a country that so completely represent its image as an airport. It is both a threshold and a mirror, reflecting not just the physical state of a nation but the moral tone of its institutions. For Bangladesh, Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) has long stood as that symbolic gateway—the first and last impression for millions who travel in and out of the country each year.

October 30, 2025
October 30, 2025

Why survival in Dhaka feels accidental

When a city demands miracles to survive its own design, something fundamental has gone wrong.

October 20, 2025
October 20, 2025

The HSC result debacle exposes long-hidden cracks in our education

For two decades, Bangladesh lived under a comforting numerical, statistical, and sweetly deceptive illusion.

October 12, 2025
October 12, 2025

Tarique Rahman and the question of political renewal

His reemergence through the recent interviews represents both a promise and a paradox.

October 4, 2025
October 4, 2025

Bangladesh can’t afford to remain a one-legged economy

For Bangladesh, export diversification has become an existential demand.

September 6, 2025
September 6, 2025

Five and a half years ‘gone with the wind’

Breathing has become more lethal than smoking. How does one quit air?

August 31, 2025
August 31, 2025

Teenage gangs and a failing social order

What’s fuelling this surge in teenage crime?

August 26, 2025
August 26, 2025

Banning an autocrat's words risks strengthening her legacy of fear

Let all voices—whether popular or poisonous—be heard.

August 11, 2025
August 11, 2025

The anatomy of post-uprising disillusionment

The more things seem to change, the more they seem to remain the same.

August 4, 2025
August 4, 2025

When revolutions forget why they began

The heat of power draws opportunists, “millions of bees,” as it were, who arrive not to pollinate progress but to bask in its heat, building a suffocating cloud of illusion around the leader.