People seem to love making negative remarks about societal breakdown and people’s lack of concern for others.
Cars are harmful to our health and to our environment.
There are plenty of great examples of improving the traffic situation around schools and making the children's lives better.
There is a common confusion around the subject of health.
The focus of local governments should be ensuring that child protection protection services are prioritised.
What can we learn from the American disaster? First, that democracy isn’t easy.
It is time to greatly restrict the use of private motorised vehicles and make our cities more liveable.
If we have learnt nothing else in the last several months, it is not to underestimate the power of young people.
Our craze to build and pave has led us to create cities of concrete and asphalt. Canals and wetlands are paved over.
People tend to believe in progress. As the decades advance, we become more civilised. We expand important freedoms, like voting rights. Except that time and time again, some events prove otherwise.
It is difficult these days to go anywhere or do anything without thinking or hearing about inflation – what is less obvious is what to do about it.
Even the children who have never had a shooting at their own school are not free from the damage.
Funny how this question often preempts concern about the health of mother and baby. Why are we so obsessed with a baby’s gender?
The other day, a Dutch friend of mine and I were having lunch when I mentioned how chaotic I’d heard the Dhaka airport was now.
The eyes of the world are on Ukraine as its citizens fight to uphold their democracy in the face of Russian aggression. But how many people are aware that American democracy is similarly under grave threat?
After two years, it is no wonder that people are fed up with the changes the Covid-19 pandemic has inflicted on us.
Recently, I was chatting with a young friend. She mentioned that, with all the Covid lockdowns (she is in a country much harder hit than Bangladesh), she has learnt to do business online, selling herself as a yoga and meditation instructor.
For many people, education means sitting in a class and mindlessly repeating what the teacher tells you. But is that really what education is about?
