Badiuzzaman Bay
OF MAGIC & MADNESS
Badiuzzaman Bay is Assistant Editor, The Daily Star. He can be reached at badiuzzaman.bd@gmail.com
OF MAGIC & MADNESS
Badiuzzaman Bay is Assistant Editor, The Daily Star. He can be reached at badiuzzaman.bd@gmail.com
This is apparently the longest holiday that journalists have ever gotten in the history of Bangladesh’s newspaper industry.
If the government really wants to control or bring down prices during Ramadan and afterwards, it must be willing to go after its 'own people.'
A government’s job is not to preach about people’s food choices, but to keep food prices stable and reasonably down. When it starts to preach, more often than not it is trying to deflect scrutiny of what it cannot achieve through actions.
In the end, love is a personal matter and it should remain so, regardless of how it comes out on February 14 and in the days that follow.
Mohammad Ali Arafat, the newly appointed state minister for information and broadcasting, in an exclusive interview with The Daily Star.
Politicians provided a steady supply of obnoxious, potentially title-winning examples
BNP's retreat to the back foot amid mass arrests and convictions was as remarkable as it was rapid.
You’ve already met the dummy candidates, aka independents. Now, meet dummy voters.
Despite huge investments being made in the railways, the authorities are struggling to offer decent services thanks to sheer corruption and irregularities.
“Digital Bangladesh” continues to be a central plank of the ruling Awami League, despite the failure of its techno-utopian Vision 2021.
Here’s an image that will likely be seared into our memory forever: a teacher being forced to wear a garland of shoes around his neck.
Now that the Cumilla City Corporation (CCC) election is over and everything there was to see and hear has been seen and heard, we need to address the elephant in the room.
No, silly, there is no such prize for violence. That’s just a conversation starter. After all, what better way to invoke the mighty Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) than with a nod to violence?
The pitfall of measuring development based on macrodata is that it shows the big picture, but fails to account for development achieved, if at all, on a micro/personal level.
For a party so image-conscious and so demanding of "clean image" from its candidates, Awami League surely knows how to make a muck of things and draw unflattering attention.
The idea of a justice system hinges on people’s faith in its ability to offer fair solutions. So justice, as the saying goes, should not only be done, but be seen to be done as well, so that people’s faith in it is kept intact.
It’s been quite some time since we’ve had a Pahela Baishakh in the middle of Ramadan. The convergence of the two occasions, not necessarily a clash of ideologies, begs appreciation of life in its many nuances and complexities.
In Dhaka, we don’t live anymore, we merely survive.