Decolonizing Dreams
Dhaka Tribune | Aug 2024 | Opinion / Foresight
An essay on futures thinking that asks why Bangladeshi children’s dreams are boxed into narrow, linear paths (doctor, engineer, lawyer) shaped by post-colonial notions of a “good future.” Drawing on personal anecdotes from engineering school and design school, plus the disruption of Covid-19, it argues for unlearning these inherited scripts and making room for ambiguity, risk, and inclusive imagination.
The untold stories of transgender people in Bangladesh as they navigate misconceptions
Global Voices | Feb 2024 | The Bridge
A personal essay and reported piece that unpacks widespread confusion in Bangladesh between sex, gender, hijra identity, and intersex and transgender identities. Through testimonies from several trans individuals (Moumita, Neelima, Piu, Shammyo, Nayantara, Shomudro), it traces the isolation and family rejection many face, and makes a case for empathy and education over assumption.
The rights left behind: The future of LGBTQI+ organizing in post-uprising Bangladesh
Global Voices | June 2026 | Gender Diversity Spotlight
A reported piece tracing how Bangladesh’s LGBTQI+ community has fared since the 2024 uprising, opening with an April 2026 mob attack on hijra and trans women in Shahbag and their subsequent mistreatment by police. It documents the political mainstreaming of anti-queer rhetoric within the new government, the death of student Shakil Ahmed after a coordinated harassment campaign, the retreat of NGOs and international funders following US aid cuts, and a hunger strike that produced Bangladesh’s first Queer Manifesto, arguing that the movement now survives in spite of the state rather than with its protection.
‘To Hell with Good Intentions’: Decolonising disaster management
The Daily Star | Sept 2024 | Views
An op-ed borrowing its title from Ivan Illich’s 1968 critique of voluntarism, applied to youth-led relief efforts after Bangladesh’s 2024 uprising and floods. Using examples from menstrual product donations to thrifted clothes, it argues that good intentions without listening to survivors can do more harm than good, and calls for empathy grounded in accountability rather than saviourism.
How much should you tell your AI?
The Daily Star | June 2026 | Tech & Startup
A piece on the privacy and psychological risks of confiding in AI chatbots, opening with a US murder case where ChatGPT queries became evidence, and an AI-assisted military targeting operation. It argues that the same logic, more data in means better performance but greater exposure, applies at every scale, and urges readers toward caution, anonymity, and treating AI conversations as anything but private.
যৌন হয়রানি: জনমানসের আবেগ বনাম প্রাতিষ্ঠানিক দায়
Prothom Alo, Nagorik Sangbad | June 2026 | আয়োজন
A Bengali piece on how Bangladesh responds to sexual harassment allegations, caught between mob justice on one side and blanket dismissal of accusers on the other. It includes a personal account of harassment at a government workplace that was waved off as “boyish mischief,” and draws on voices from BRAC’s safeguarding programme to argue for trained, independent institutional processes instead of public verdicts.
অহিংস অগ্নিযাত্রা
Bangla Tribune | May 2022 | Column
A first-person account of a feminist collective’s trip to Narsingdi railway station after a young woman was attacked there for her clothing. It reflects on “reclaiming public space” through quiet, non-confrontational presence, situates the action within a longer history of similar protests (Pohela Boishakh, the tip protests), and argues that patriarchy, not gender, is the real adversary.
বাংলাদেশে যৌনপেশার প্রশ্নোত্তর
Personal blog (Alogosh) | Sept 2024
A Q&A-format blog post was written after a viral video showed a man assaulting street-based sex workers in Dhaka’s Shyamoli area and robbing them, an attack that drew applause from bystanders. Attending the Sex Workers’ Network’s press conference in solidarity, Trishia fields a series of journalists’ questions, ranging from hostile to merely uncomfortable, and uses them to argue for recognizing sex work as a profession with attendant rights, safety, and dignity.