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
No matter the curriculum or medium of education, schooling is deeply flawed in our country. It’s clear every time we take a daringly honest stroll down memory lane,
The night calls out with blaring horns, Trucks and buses and uncompromising scorns,
My mother tells me a story of the year I was born (some time before the turn of the millennia), and apparently, winter that year was insane.
The real entertainment is in the details, in the ball by ball action.
As a weekly publication, we always have opinions about the dates on which our magazine comes out. This week’s SHOUT gives us the opportunity to celebrate with our readers the end of 2020, a year that is unique in so many ways. I consider this to be a privilege.
It took me a long time to realise that creativity is a process. It feels stupid admitting this after seven years writing and editing for a magazine, but when I started at a tender age,
A small scale survey was conducted online to understand the underlying reasons behind the use of unethical measures in academic activities.
“Soon to be shadowed”—read the caption of an image on The Daily Star’s front page last week. It featured the iconic Shontrash Birodhi Raju Bhashkarja, and looming over it, the towering structures of Bangladesh’s first-ever metro rail, the MRT 6, still under construction. The image brought into focus an issue that has been a point of contention for the students of the University of Dhaka (DU) for four years now.
I walked out onto the balcony last night and felt a shiver down my spine. It was not simply because I am afraid of the dark. There was a different reason. It’s getting cold, folks.
Last year, activists Greta Thunberg of Sweden and Divina Maloum of Cameroon won this prize.
