Digital Features Coordinator at The Daily Star
For an outside observer, it must be baffling that the BNP, having witnessed what the actions of the last 15 years did to the Awami League in three short weeks this summer, never even considered the fact that if they didn’t play fast and loose with people’s precious time like Sheikh Hasina used to, it would set a nice contrast in the minds of voters and the young generation.
Reveals TGI analysis of content on Bangladesh on X
The number of different electoral systems around the world is testament to the complex nature of democracy
The most important details for outsiders to understand is that the United States of America is a federal state, made up of 50 states.
Anyone familiar with the previous “elections” held between 2014 and 2024 will know that it is virtually impossible these spending caps were adhered to, despite parties’ claims of compliance on paper.
Politicians need to start understanding that the loud, unnecessary, intrusive politics that we know today needs to become the politics of the past.
We can have a national cricket team who can do it all. The win in Rawalpindi is an indication of it.
Even if history is not consistent with what the youth have been taught, it doesn't explain the disdain with which many have treated his memory
The youth cannot be empowered if they can’t fend for themselves and survive the economic realities of the times they operate in.
I punctuate my years with the religious and cultural festivals I observe.
The team we had here at SHOUT separates, but what remains is a truckload of lessons learned.
Let’s get this out of the way. I used to support the Indian cricket team growing up.
For Sazed-ul-Kabir, not going to DU was an option he wasn’t willing to entertain.
The first episode of HBO's newest fantasy delivers on all of its promises.
Inflation is the bad boy of economic phenomena.
Daha Mrittu Politan Police (DMPP), in a press conference this week, announced a radical shift in policy as all pending murder cases were declared solved.
On this week, 4 years ago, school and college students protested to ensure road safety for all.
Fire & Blood is the historical retelling of the reign of the Targaryens as told by the fictional Archmaster Gyldayn, and it is a compressed version of all the things that make A Song of Ice and Fire so fun.