Blogging in Bangladesh
Blogging in Bangladesh is dominated by a community of around 200 blogs. Some personal blogs have been around since the mid-2000s, but there are now blogs about self help, cities, science, law, digital marketing, entrepreneurship, and fashion magazines.
Niche Blogs
Tribune
Tribune publishes current affairs updates, as well as opinions and commentaries from multiple authors in Bengali. Alongside original content, the blog publishes Bengali translations of commentaries originally written in English and published on European or U.S. platforms and media outlets.
Lawyers Club Bangladesh
Lawyers Club Bangladesh publishes news and updates associated with law and legal affairs in both Bengali and English. The blog also publishes opinions relating to legal affairs.
Bangladesh Law Blog
Bangladesh Law Blog publishes brief English commentaries on only the important legislative amendments. The blog, therefore, publishes in long intervals, only when a legislation has an important amendment.
Dhaka Law Blog
Dhaka Law Blog publishes brief Bengali commentaries on only the important legislative amendments. The blog, therefore, publishes in long intervals, only when a legislation has an important amendment.
Notable bloggers
Notable bloggers from Bangladesh include Avijit Roy, Asif Mohiuddin, Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury, Ahmed Rajib Haider, Bonya Ahmed, Sunny Sanwar, Shahidul Alam.
Violence against bloggers
Since 2013, some bloggers in Bangladesh have been attacked and killed by Islamic extremists.[1][2][3][4]
References
- ^ Samanth Subramanian (14 December 2015). "The Hit List: The Islamist War on Secular Bloggers in Bangladesh". The New Yorker. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
- ^ Maaz Hussain (1 March 2017). "Bangladesh Criticized for Slow Progress in Blogger Murders". Voice of America. Archived from the original on September 9, 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
- ^ Emma Graham-Harrison; Saad Hammadi (11 June 2016). "Inside Bangladesh's killing fields: bloggers and outsiders targeted by fanatics". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
- ^ Ishaan Tharoor (2 May 2016). "These Bangladeshi bloggers were murdered by Islamist extremists. Here are some of their writings". The Washington Post. Retrieved 21 June 2020.