Sabrin Sultana

Weather is the feeling of the atmosphere at a particular moment and place. It is the heat pressing on your skin at noon, the sudden coolness after a storm, the wind that rattles windows at night, or the heavy air that settles over a city before rain. Weather happens now. It changes by the hour and by the day. Climate, by contrast, is the long story told by many years of weather, the pattern that emerges after seasons repeat again and again. People often speak of weather as if it were...

Photo by the Author The Rohingya crisis is not a new tragedy; it is a recurring wound in the conscience of South and Southeast Asia. For generations, the Rohingya people, an ethnic Muslim minority native to Myanmar’s Rakhine State, have lived as a community stripped of belonging. The crisis deepened in August 2017 when a brutal military operation in Rakhine drove over 700,000 Rohingya across the Naf River into Bangladesh. It was not the first exodus; smaller waves had occurred in 1978, 1991,...