Essays, projects, and ideas from the crossroads of media, memory, and the modern South Asian mind.

Essays, projects, and ideas from the crossroads of media, memory, and the modern South Asian mind.


Writing and building — across news, finance, economics, design, and digital archives.


Writing and building — across news, finance, economics, design, and digital archives.

About

Safen Roy is a Bangladeshi media strategist and operational consultant. He is the head of operations working across publishing, research, and digital culture at the intersections of media, technology, and open knowledge.


He works on initiatives including Sarakhon, The Present World, Look Asia, and BD Bytes — developing projects around media systems, digital archives, and South Asia’s evolving information economy.


Essays

Selected essays on technology, media, and the internet’s evolving memory. Explore in-depth thinking on infrastructure, memory, and the modern internet.

The Internet Remembers — If We Let It: • 6 min read.

Building Digital Rails in Bangladesh: On infrastructure, incentives, and why simple systems last

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Sarakhon

2019

Look Asia

2021

The Present World

2023

BD Bytes

2025

Safen Roy

© 2025

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© 2025 Safen Roy · All essays are free to read and easy to link to.

© 2025 Safen Roy · All essays are free to read

and easy to link to.