Azmin Azran

Digital Features Coordinator at The Daily Star

BNP’s show of force on Airport Road and a political culture that refuses to change

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.

2d ago

Disinformation targets right-wing audiences, Indians

Reveals TGI analysis of content on Bangladesh on X

3w ago

A world of voting systems: What is the right choice for Bangladesh?

The number of different electoral systems around the world is testament to the complex nature of democracy

2m ago

What is the ‘Electoral College’?

The most important details for outsiders to understand is that the United States of America is a federal state, made up of 50 states.

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The need for transparency in political financing

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.

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What politics for the new generation should look like

Politicians need to start understanding that the loud, unnecessary, intrusive politics that we know today needs to become the politics of the past.

4m ago

Bangladesh’s Rawalpindi Test win provides some much-needed room for reflection

We can have a national cricket team who can do it all. The win in Rawalpindi is an indication of it.

4m ago

How the youth's perception of Bangabandhu soured under Awami League

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

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March 28, 2019
March 28, 2019

You're Allowed To Be Stressed - Last Minute HSC Preparation

The most stressful period of my life by far has been the time I sat for my HSC. It was the worst of times, and no, in no way was it the best of times. I sort of scraped through it in 2017, and having had two years to reflect upon (read: recover from) this crazy ordeal, there are a couple of things I'd like to share.

January 11, 2019
January 11, 2019

ARE YOU OLD ENOUGH TO BE HERE?

“What do people do in offices?” a friend recently asked in a group chat. While the answer to this question seems obvious and one

November 30, 2018
November 30, 2018

5 CAREERS WHERE PROGRAMMING WILL TAKE YOU TO THE NEXT LEVEL

If you've been told that your field of study is going to be rendered obsolete within the next two decades because of the rise of AI, you've allowed yourself to be misled. AI will replace humans in a lot of jobs that humans are hired to do today,

May 3, 2018
May 3, 2018

Where Did I Put That Damned Pendrive

I remember the first time I saw Rafiul bhai. We just moved into our new Mirpur house, and I accompanied my mom when she decided to visit our next door neighbours. Rafiul bhai was sitting in front of a

March 1, 2018
March 1, 2018

Question leaks: a rot in the core

I write from my experience of being part of the most recent batch of HSC graduates, and being familiar with people a couple of years either side of my own age, question leaks isn't a new phenomena. It has been there as a thorn at the side of students for at least 5 years (in its current form of online leakage), but has taken an abnormally long time to find the public spotlight it merits.

January 4, 2018
January 4, 2018

The cricket coach conundrum

The Bangladesh national cricket team is without a coach again, and an array of experienced foreigners are being interviewed for the job while former captain Khaled Mahmud Sujon acts as interim coach.

November 16, 2017
November 16, 2017

4 WAYS A BEARD CHANGES YOUR DAY TO DAY LIFE

It's a well-known scenario when a young man or even a middle aged one can be seen feeling distraught because a lack of facial hair has diminished his standing in the world as a male.

November 3, 2017
November 3, 2017

LOOKING BEYOND THE FIRST HURDLE

There are 40 public universities in Bangladesh, a couple of international universities, and 92 private ones (as of February 2016).

September 7, 2017
September 7, 2017

Villains: QotSA's seventh from heaven

I'm one of those people who could listen to Josh Homme scratch a chalk board with his nails and then go, “This is the sort of innovation that makes Joshua a musical genius.”

August 17, 2017
August 17, 2017

Monkeys and Monsters

Jalal ud-Din Muhammad was the name Mughal Emperor Akbar was born with; it was also the name of a man clinging for life to a sewage pipe, hanging from the side of a five storey building in the middle of the night in a dingy neighbourhood inside the city that was first established in the name of Akbar's son.