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Sushmita S. Preetha

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As seen in: The Daily Star (Bangladesh), Frontline India, Svenska Dagbladet, Inter Press Service, The Wire (India), Middle East Eye, Nepali Times, Asia News Network (ANN), Himal Southasian, Netra News, The Bangladesh Chronicle and
Activist, journalist and researcher. Editor, Star Weekend Magazine, The Daily Star. I focus on human rights, labour, neoliberalism, feminism and politics.
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The march of the microfascist

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By Sushmita S. Preetha
| The Daily Star (Bangladesh) Verified
In Shahbagh, a group of friends sat at a tea stall on an otherwise unremarkable evening on April 10, somewhere between the rhythms of the city and the anticipatory hum of Pahela Baishakh. They were not doing anything that could be described as public controversy. They were, by all available accounts, simply there. Visible, perhaps in ways that rendered them legible to others as something else. That, it turns out, was sufficient.
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The Extremely Sustainable Lifestyle of the Burnt-Out Feminist

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By Sushmita S. Preetha
| Counterpoint BD
Though the International Brotherhood of Mediocre Men appears to be doing a competent job of setting the world on literal fire, feminists remain the preferred explanation for why everything is burning. There has been much discussion in recent years about sustainability. Sustainable agriculture. Sustainable energy. Sustainable development. Sustainable fabrics made from recycled sadness.
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'Repay debt to martyrs': Bangladesh embraces change but fears return to past excesses

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By Sushmita S. Preetha, Marco Carnelos
| Middle East Eye Verified
Bangladesh’s 13th national parliamentary election has delivered a decisive victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), marking what many observers describe as the country’s first broadly acceptable and competitive national vote in nearly 18 years. Held on 12 February 2026, the poll followed the 2024 student-led uprising that forced Sheikh Hasina from office and ushered in an interim administration under Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.
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