Accessibility isn’t a ramp tacked onto a broken staircase. It must be the foundation. That means funding disability-led research. That means rewriting disaster protocols with disabled people at the drafting table. That means treating accessibility not as a favour, but as a right.
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A country is like a relationship — messy, complicated, and impossible not to love.
Hasina’s regime is particularly important to contextualise and understand the impact of the shockingly powerful nationwide student movement which forced her to resign.
Muslims and Hindus are not friends in the Indian Subcontinent. It is not something I understood the depth of until…
We must remain vigilant in supporting and protecting the right for students to assemble, protest, and advocate for themselves against institutions geared towards preserving the power of a select, elite few.
I recognise that being so far detached from the threat of real violence and cultural erasure, I have the privilege to pick up and leave off my national pride whenever I choose. At the same time, I recognise that so many others in our current world cannot.
That was the first time I had left Bangladesh behind, not quite realising that the feeling of loss I was experiencing was, in fact, homesickness, for a place I wasn’t born to, for a language I have now lost fluency in, and a family I could not grow up with.
I always sought out what it is that ties Bangladeshis together. In my few sheltered years of living, I’ve decided it was the war.
Yearning for one’s homeland can evoke a sense of dislocation.
What capitalism has to do with the death of cricket