At the height of the July uprising, many hospitals turned their backs -- some out of fear, others silenced or forced into complicity. State forces roamed halls of healing, seizing CCTV footage, erasing patient records, and threatening doctors not to treat the wounded.
Let's not let this dog's death be just another forgotten statistic, let it be a beginning.
The cats don't always understand the human specifics, but they recognise sadness. They notice routines. And most of all, they stay
Politicians descended upon the hospitals in droves. And no, they did not come alone. They brought their entourages and photographers, hungry for headlines and votes.
The protests were loud, defiant, and spreading fast. But behind them was a quieter resistance
If your idea of resisting state failure is to equate “femininity” with cowardice, you are not challenging injustice. You are reinforcing it.
A gang rape accused has no fear of consequences because of his political affiliation.
'Biggest threat to animal welfare in Bangladesh are overenthusiastic activists'
Chirag Roy – a conservation biologist, a comrade, a lover of nature, a friend to wildlife; a husband, a son, a brother to many...
Everyday we face problems. Commuting, house help, mishaps in the education system, corruption- these are everyday issues that
The word 'progress' often times becomes a controversial word, amongst both intellectuals and scholars, when the questions of whose progress
In the previous episodes, Khaled Rabbani, one of the youngest contestants, won an apron as he walked in first to the judges. Upon
On March 7, 2016, around mid-afternoon, the news of a strange case reached The Daily Star. Within an hour, televisions and social
Opportunities are treasured. Opportunities come by at random, at their will and wish. Our task is to recognise them and use them to
“I grew up in a place where we had more trees than houses, more birds than people and more ponds than tanks! Each pond would
In search for answers to the question “What does it mean to be a man?”, senior research associate of James P Grant School, Saad Adnan Khan, and photojournalist of The Daily Star, Kazi Tahsin Agaz Apurbo, traversed different locations and intersections of Bangladesh and posed this question to the common man.
In the north-eastern part of the Bay of Bengal, about 9 km south of the tip of the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf peninsula, lays an island, an area
In our country, you will hear women, every now and then, exclaim 'ughh, only if I were a man!' out of the frustrations in living in a
