Mehedi Hasan Marof

Journalist at The Business Standard with interest in contemporary issues, crime & justice.

Bangladesh’s new outcasts: Students from ex-PM Hasina’s party now in hiding

Originally published: AL Jazeera Until August, they dominated college campuses and were accused of leading violent mobs against anti-Hasina protesters. Now they’re on the run...

‘One less mouth to feed’: Climate disasters enabling child marriage in Bangladesh

Commissioned by: Dialogue Earth/The Third Pole Longer version: Bangladesh First Republished by: Scroll, Eco-Business, Climate Diplomacy, South Asian Journal Rukhsar Begum* is a 21-year-old woman from Rowmari,...

Can Bangladesh Police recover from their part in ‘Hasina’s autocracy’?

Originally published: The Diplomat In Bangladesh, a police high official resigned noting the force has transformed into a "public enemy." In his resignation letter, Md Moniruzzaman,...

Bangladesh’s longest-serving PM falls and flees the country after weeks of protests

Originally published: NBC News Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the country Monday, the army chief said, a day after almost 100 people were killed in...

Student-led protests in Bangladesh morph into mass uprising to unseat a ‘killer government’

Originally published: Scroll | The Diplomat When Tisha Mahjabeen first saw the news on her Facebook feed that the main coordinators of the quota reform...

Endless cycle of poverty and struggle along the coastal shore

Originally published: The Business Standard Sarwar Majhi, a fisherman in the Kutobjom region of Moheshkhali, has to go out to sea regardless of how extreme...

What does it take to parent a child with disabilities?

Originally published: The Business Standard Sanjida Nahar Tumpa and Elius Sarker had just welcomed their baby boy, Sahel, into the world after seven years of...

Ramadan away from home: How it goes for Bangladeshi students abroad

Originally Published: The Business Standard Four thousand miles from home in Poland's Poznan — DM Mahmudul Hasan, a 22-year-old engineering student from Bangladesh, is spending Ramadan...