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 editors, journalists, producers, and opinion‑makers in India: check your facts. Don’t outsource your understanding of an entire nation to anonymous ‘sources’ and viral WhatsApp forwards. We are not asking for flattery. We are asking for accuracy.

India bowled a loose delivery. Bangladesh hit it for six. But what comes next matters more.

Vilified for demanding my rights and dignity as a student, I was the target of sustained institutional harassment endemic in a system hostage to extremist religious politics.

The myth of the Awami League being secular veiled the Islamisation it oversaw, and gave the Islamists a narrative of victimhood. By neither challenging nor correcting this, the interim government’s partisanship towards Islamists is eradicating secularism.

The spate of Islamist majoritarian vandalism is a signal from a political pressure group, and a symptom of the deeper issues plaguing Bangladesh’s politics.