Monswita Bulbuli was born in 1979 in Old Dhaka. After completing her double masters – one in English Literature and another in English Language and English Language Teaching (ELT) – she started her career as a journalist in 2010 with the national English daily ‘daily sun.’ After that she worked in The Daily Star, The Daily Observer, The Dhaka Tribune, Bangladesh News, and The Business Standard. Though she worked as a sub-editor and then senior sub-editor in the news desk of several leading national English dailies of Bangladesh from 2010 to 2022, she wrote columns on contemporary issues for the dailies. Currently she is pursuing MPhil in English Literature in Jahangirnagar University as a full time researcher. Her MPhil Part-I is completed; now she is doing her thesis work. The title of her MPhil research is ‘Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and William Golding’s Lord of The Flies: Exploring Environmental Issues and Children’s Behaviour.’ Meanwhile, The International Journal of English Language Teaching published her research work on the arena of ELT in 2022. However, Monswita hasn’t stopped writing articles and short stories both in Bangla and English for blogs and newspapers. She is a member of Bangladesh Lekhak Shibir as well as of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) and Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ). MÖš’ cwiwPwZ We cannot stay the same after reading “Monsters in Our Midst” by Monswita Bulbuli. She lays bare, in painful detail, the oppressive relations that surround us in our homes and workplaces, and insists that we face them. She gives voice to the grievances of those who are too often ignored and marginalized, and then goes even further to insist on change at all levels: personal, institutional, systemic. While her observations are specific to her home country of Bangladesh, these issues are global, and of universal importance. Her moral outrage is a call for social transformation that we all must heed. Stephanie McMillan Artist and Writer, The USA This book is a collection of fifteen articles written by a journalist. The columns were published in different national English dailies of Bangladesh from 2015 to 2023. They focus on different contemporary issues, problems and crises, and raise questions about the root of the problems. The condition of society of that time is reflected in these columns. Mainly the plights of working-class people, especially of garment workers, domestic workers and females working in the Middle Eastern countries as domestic help are depicted in these articles. Also the condition of teachers and youths are also portrayed in her write-ups. One article in the book brings readers’ attention to attacks on Santals (an ‘ethnic minority’) and the historic rebellion of them. Also men’s attitudes towards women, the problems women face in workplaces due to their gender issues, and child education are discussed. The author tries to shed light on the root or cause of the problems in the writings.
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