Md Mahmudul Hasan

Md Mahmudul Hasan teaches English and postcolonial literature at International Islamic University Malaysia. Email: [email protected]

The real bank now lives in your pocket

Let me tell you about two people.

1w ago

Bangladesh’s digital payment revolution

As full interoperability launches on November 1, 2025, Bangladesh stands on the verge of its most transformative financial reform since the birth of mobile money, one that could turn inefficiency into inclusion and cash into data-driven growth. 

1m ago

‘Protesters are not given medical care here’

How a July warrior was denied immediate medical care.

4m ago

Battle for the last word on the July uprising

Bangladeshis under Hasina’s regime suffered on two levels: physical and epistemic/cognitive/perceptual.

4m ago

Are Bangladeshis anti-Indian?

To understand the recent surge of so-called anti-Indian views among Bangladeshis, we need to examine the misrule that shipwrecked their country.

7m ago

Char dakhal in art and politics

The proverbial practice of char dakhal has now extended to politics in the form of chandabaji (money extortion) as a metaphor for criminal greed.

8m ago

'A terrible beauty is born' in Gaza and West Bank

Pre-occupation Palestine had, to use Anglo-American poet WH Auden's words, "marble well-governed cities" full of "vines and olive trees." But Israel and its allies have turned it into "an artificial wilderness"

8m ago

Gender and spirituality: Role of men and women in Ramadan

Transforming Ramadan from a month of fasting into one of feasting and then forcing women to cook extravagant meals ruins the purpose of the holy month.

8m ago
November 18, 2025
November 18, 2025

The real bank now lives in your pocket

Let me tell you about two people.

October 23, 2025
October 23, 2025

Bangladesh’s digital payment revolution

As full interoperability launches on November 1, 2025, Bangladesh stands on the verge of its most transformative financial reform since the birth of mobile money, one that could turn inefficiency into inclusion and cash into data-driven growth. 

July 27, 2025
July 27, 2025

‘Protesters are not given medical care here’

How a July warrior was denied immediate medical care.

July 25, 2025
July 25, 2025

Battle for the last word on the July uprising

Bangladeshis under Hasina’s regime suffered on two levels: physical and epistemic/cognitive/perceptual.

April 19, 2025
April 19, 2025

Are Bangladeshis anti-Indian?

To understand the recent surge of so-called anti-Indian views among Bangladeshis, we need to examine the misrule that shipwrecked their country.

March 22, 2025
March 22, 2025

Char dakhal in art and politics

The proverbial practice of char dakhal has now extended to politics in the form of chandabaji (money extortion) as a metaphor for criminal greed.

March 13, 2025
March 13, 2025

'A terrible beauty is born' in Gaza and West Bank

Pre-occupation Palestine had, to use Anglo-American poet WH Auden's words, "marble well-governed cities" full of "vines and olive trees." But Israel and its allies have turned it into "an artificial wilderness"

March 9, 2025
March 9, 2025

Gender and spirituality: Role of men and women in Ramadan

Transforming Ramadan from a month of fasting into one of feasting and then forcing women to cook extravagant meals ruins the purpose of the holy month.

February 21, 2025
February 21, 2025

Palestine: A large Victorian workhouse?

The Zionist blueprint for Palestine resonates with the strategy of the workhouse authorities of Victorian England.

January 22, 2025
January 22, 2025

Lusting Orientals revisited: The British grooming gang debate

The victims are used as tools to spread fear about a specific community.