Netra Report
For decades, successive governments have pursued grand solutions - metro rail, flyovers, elevated expressways. Yet experts argue that the answer may already lie beneath our feet: the waterways that once defined this riverine city.
April 26, 2026
Raised as a boy after doctors "corrected" her body, an intersex adult's story of undoing a lifetime of medical decisions made without consent.
Raised as a boy after doctors "corrected" her body, an intersex adult's story of undoing a lifetime of medical decisions made without consent.
Raised as a boy after doctors "corrected" her body, an intersex adult's story of undoing a lifetime of medical decisions made without consent.
to comfort the afflicted and to confront power
Raised as a boy after doctors "corrected" her body, an intersex adult's story of undoing a lifetime of medical decisions made without consent.
Netra News interviewed hundreds of families and examined over 2,000 reports to map the killings during Bangladesh's 2024 crackdown. Of 750 verified deaths, at least 705 were likely caused by security forces or ruling party cadres.
Raised as a boy after doctors "corrected" her body, an intersex adult's story of undoing a lifetime of medical decisions made without consent.
Raised as a boy after doctors "corrected" her body, an intersex adult's story of undoing a lifetime of medical decisions made without consent.
Raised as a boy after doctors "corrected" her body, an intersex adult's story of undoing a lifetime of medical decisions made without consent.
Raised as a boy after doctors "corrected" her body, an intersex adult's story of undoing a lifetime of medical decisions made without consent.
Raised as a boy after doctors "corrected" her body, an intersex adult's story of undoing a lifetime of medical decisions made without consent.
Raised as a boy after doctors "corrected" her body, an intersex adult's story of undoing a lifetime of medical decisions made without consent.
Sophie Sana
Al Amin Tusher
Farid Erkizia Bakht
For decades, successive governments have pursued grand solutions - metro rail, flyovers, elevated expressways. Yet experts argue that the answer may already lie beneath our feet: the waterways that once defined this riverine city.
Whether the resumption of electoral democracy signals a successful end of the transition to democracy, is as much a hypothesis requiring proof as whether the immediate socio-political future of Bangladesh is hopeful. With a healthy nationwide voter turnout of nearly 61%, there is conclusive electoral evidence of the predominance of Islamist nationalism in present-day Bangladesh...
April 26, 2026