In a remote Garo village, an elderly Indigenous couple lives by themselves.
If such an appalling treatment persists, will the Indigenous people ever feel safe in this country?
Though the floodwaters didn’t linger in most places, they left behind uncertainty for lakhs of people.
There is a lack of recognition for Indigenous writers and publishers at national events like the Amar Ekushey Book Fair.
The government has directed all supermarkets, malls and shops of Dhaka city to adopt precautionary measures to stop the spread of Covid-19. However, the markets are struggling to maintain proper health and safety measures as there are large crowds of people shopping before Eid-ul-Fitr.
It was quite a pleasant surprise for Kawser Alam when he found Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) workers clearing the dumped waste in front of his house, a day after he lodged a complaint through an app called “Sobar Dhaka”.
Dhaka residents usually come across footpaths and roads being blocked by vendors and parked vehicles. As a result, they may have to jaywalk or manoeuvre their vehicles through the obstacles, hoping that one day authorities will clear the path.
Yesterday was the last day of this year’s Ekushey Boimela. Marked by a delayed start and a lockdown announcement midway, the book fair -- originally scheduled to end on April 14 -- ended two days earlier due to the surge in Covid-19 cases across the country.
National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam believed that anything that was created in the world, half of the credit goes to men, and half to women.
One of the refreshing sights of the Ekushey Grantha Mela is seeing people of all ages with diverse interests, coming together with one thing common among them: the love of reading. And the country's biggest book fair doesn't disappoint; from illustrated fables for children to the most serious political discourse -- it's hard to find a topic on which there is no book at the fair.
For children, yesterday's Shishu Prohor of this year's Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela became extra special as they were greeted by two special guests.
For bookworms in Bangladesh, the name of Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal is synonymous with science fiction.
Structures of various shapes and sizes, many of which are unfinished, surround a pond, filled with murky black water.
Although the Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela is yet to go in full bloom, bookworms are already scouting the stalls looking for new reading material.
At first glance, it looks like an ordinary auto-rickshaw with three wheels.
For about four years while the construction of the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover was going on, residents of the city suffered through hours of traffic gridlocks, bumpy rides on submerged or pothole-riddled road below it, and severe air and noise pollution,
While the 11th national election has just been done and dusted, it has left its mark on the capital -- as it has on the rest of the country -- through thousands of posters and banners strewn across thoroughfares and alleyways alike.
When Rajon was born in 2016, his parents -- Mossammat Shajna and Gaus Ali -- were elated. He was after all their first child and the couple had been trying to conceive for a while.
