01My story
A living obligation.
Why a student from Bangladesh chose to think in public — and why he writes.
I grew up watching politics shape the lives of people around me — in classrooms, in neighbourhoods, in the silences between news cycles. Bangladesh is a country with a remarkable capacity for both suffering and resilience, and I found myself drawn to understanding why.
Student movements have long been the conscience of this nation. From the Language Movement of '52 to the Liberation War of '71, to the uprising of '24 — it has always been young people who refused to accept things as they are. That tradition is not history to me; it is a living obligation.
Writing became the way I make sense of all of it. Not as a journalist cataloguing events, but as a thinker trying to understand the deeper currents — why power moves the way it does, why people resist, what literature reveals that data cannot, and what a more just Bangladesh might actually look like.
I started this space to share that thinking openly — without institutional filters, without the need to please an editor or an algorithm. Just honest, careful writing about the things that matter.
Mahfuzur Rahman