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Lubna Ferdowsi

Reporter · BD

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 22, 2026
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Sep 3, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Lubna Ferdowsi

    What did we ask about Mariam while she was still alive? (opens the original)

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    After that sentence, the labels that followed her over the past two months seem very small. “Second wife.” “Moral misconduct.” “Viral video.” “Nikahnama.” They once carried the whole controversy. Now they read like fragments from a conversation that spent a great deal of time talking about Mariam without necessarily knowing very much about her. The 19-year-old was found hanging in a flat at NAM Bhaban, the residential complex for members of parliament, in Dhaka on Sunday evening. Satkhira-4 MP G

  2. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Lubna Ferdowsi

    ‘Situation under control’, but at whose expense? (opens the original)

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    There is a phrase I have been noticing more often than usual in news reports from Bangladesh: পরিস্থিতি নিয়ন্ত্রণে—the situation has been brought under control. It is an ordinary administrative phrase, and usually a reassuring one. Something has become tense, officials have intervened, and violence has been prevented. I would normally read past it without thinking much about the words themselves. Recently, though, I have found myself wondering what exactly had to happen for that control to be re

  3. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Lubna Ferdowsi

    BTV does not need a new look to have a new future (opens the original)

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    Some of my earliest memories of television are inseparable from BTV. I remember programmes in which drawing, puppetry, music and storytelling were not decorative extras but ways of teaching children to look at the world. Notun Kuri opened a door to recitation, song, dance and performance. Mustafa Monwar’s television world made imagination feel like a form of learning. I did not have that language for it then, of course. I was simply a child watching television. But when I think about BTV now, wh

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