Iron grip of persecution, hunger and discrimination
Experts tell us that it should take another 150 to 170 years to close the gender pay gap around the world. Bad news for the mothers,
7y ago
How can India win if Bangladesh does not?
Which between the two countries has gained more from Bangladesh prime minister's visit to India this month? The question appears no less intriguing than the long-standing debate over which came first between chicken and egg.
7y ago
Who's going to save politics from money?
Bees make honey, but it's easier said than done. They have to fly 55,000 miles and visit roughly 2 million flowers to produce a pound of honey.
7y ago
Cowards strung together in a daisy chain
Shame is thus the flipside of honour, and one can't exist without the other. Shameless people can't be honourable, and honourable people can't be shameless.
7y ago
Terrorism was never in the DNA
The skein of yarn spun out of the Palestinian struggle, and then got twisted in the relentless Western maneuvering in the Middle East to defend Israel.
7y ago
Great ideals are ghost lights at night
An increase in elevation lowers air pressure, which makes breathing difficult for a climber. The underwater world becomes increasingly blue and eventually black as a diver goes deeper.
7y ago
Presidential humour and the irony of education
The President of the Republic went public with his academic records, while addressing the 50th convocation of Dhaka University on March 4.
7y ago
Lies make us blind in full sight
If an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, what does a lie for a lie do to us?
7y ago
April 10, 2015
Why does the Indian home minister have a beef with beef?
GOD knows what madness came upon the Indian Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on April 1, the day he instructed his BSF men to put a complete halt to the smuggling of cattle to Bangladesh.
April 3, 2015
Nobody is guilty when everybody carries the blame
JENNIFER Jacquet writes in her book “Is Shame Necessary?
March 27, 2015
The intellectual organisation of political hatreds
The brain is connected to the body in a crisscross fashion. The left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and the right side controls the left.
March 20, 2015
Return on investment for loving your country
In a little over hundred years, roughly 180 countries have ceased to exist.
March 13, 2015
Democracy is a lot like pancake
AMERICAN basketball coach Pat Riley mapped out the terrain in the following words. He said it starts with a nobody, who becomes an upstart, who becomes a contender.
March 6, 2015
Last call before things get out of hand
US president Abraham Lincoln once elaborated on the dangers facing the Americans. He said some trans-Atlantic military wasn't going to crush them with a blow. Nor all the armies of Europe and Asia “could by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years.” He then said if destruction was the lot of the Americans, it must be them who will be its author and finisher. As a nation, he concluded, the Americans will either live as free men forever or die by suicide.
February 27, 2015
Many of us alive have long been dead
THE cultural activists in the country did their bit last Sunday when they accompanied the families of those who had died in political violence and hung a list of 54 victims in front of BNP chairperson's Gulshan office.
February 22, 2015
Morality is the new medium of exchange
While HSBC in recent years has repeatedly scandalised itself with shocking skeletons tumbling out of its cloistered closet, its chief executive Stuart Gulliver lately said that the bank has sometimes failed to live up to the standards expected of it. It wasn't a pro bono
February 13, 2015
A dialogue of the deaf?
THE civil society members have done the most civilised thing. They have made an appeal to the president, prime minister and the BNP chairperson for a dialogue to save this country.
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