FREE DE SOUL

Topic: Humanism during natural disasters and everyday life. When the monsoon floods drown the coastal districts of Sunamganj or Satkhira, disaster response doesn't require divine command. Volunteers believers and non-believers alike wade through chest-deep water to haul clean water and dry food to stranded families. Yet, a common refrain thrown at atheists in Bangladesh is: "If you don't believe in God, what keeps you from doing bad things?" The answer is simple: empathy. We

Topic: The struggle of educating the next generation in scientific rationalism. As an educator, standing in front of a high school science classroom in Bangladesh is a tightrope walk. When the textbook reaches the chapter on natural selection and evolution, the room visibly shifts. Hands shoot up not with questions of curiosity, but with pre-packaged apologetics heard at local religious gatherings. Science education in our country too often suffers from a fundamental compromi

Topic: Honoring the legacy of Bangladesh’s secular bloggers. Anyone who picked up a pen or logged onto a blog in Bangladesh during the 2010s knows the weight of that era. Names like Avijit Roy, Ananta Bijoy Das, and Washiqur Rahman are not just memories; they are reminder markers of the price paid for writing freely in Bangla. When violence was unleashed on secular bloggers, the goal was simple: instill absolute silence. They wanted us to believe that logic had no place in ou