Samina Akhter

Samina Akhter is a Dhaka-based columnist and women and human rights activist.

September 12, 2026

Can BRICS Break the China-India Blockade?

The 18th BRICS Summit will be held in New Delhi, India, on September 12-13. This is already India’s fourth time assuming the BRICS rotating chairmanship, and the international community is closely watching

Diplomacy/Social

Sex, Violence and the Death of the Modern Man

David Szalay is a quiet man, seemingly comfortable with solitude and silence, whose existence has been somewhat unsettled by winning the Booker Prize. As El País reports in its interview with the writer, Szalay, born in Montreal in 1974, now

September 12, 2026

AI’s Insider Warning: The Race May Be Outrunning Control

Editor's Choice/Geopolitics

Inside Anthropic, two words have reportedly circulated in corridors and private chats: “crunch time” and “endgame”. The first refers to the year or two

50 Years of Buddhist Service Honoured in the United States

Social/Sri Lanka/United States

Venerable Dr. Walpola Piyananda and Venerable Dr. Madawala Seelawimala have been honoured in the United States for what organisers described as 50 years of

Over Six Hundred Were Killed by US Police in 6 Months

July 23, 2023

Human Rights/United States

Syed Faisal Arif, a Bangladeshi student of the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States, was shot dead by the police last January. Ever since Faisal, a

Time to Deescalate Myanmar-Bangladesh Border Tension

September 22, 2022

Bangladesh

Myanmar’s persistent use of mortars to invade Bangladeshi land amounts to a declaration of war on Myanmar’s part and a diplomatic blunder on the part of the government of Bangladesh. In the

Tense Border: On that Unintentional Error

September 5, 2022

Bangladesh/Columns

For the last few days tension has been growing along the Myanmar border with Bangladesh which has also spread among locals at Naikhongchari and Ghumdhum border areas. According to media reports, Myanmar