A story of expansion, crisis and missed opportunities
Every time a Western consumer walks into the store and checks the manufacturing source, they don’t question the quality, but the ethical integrity of the product.
2m ago
Transitions, coins, and lenses
Business associations have been subjected to an endless game of masquerade where garlands, pictures and faces changed with the direction of the political wind.
3m ago
My powerless poster walk
Although we have the Graffiti Writing and Poster Sticking Control Act, 2012 to prevent visual pollution, nothing much has been done to implement it. Why, though?
10m ago
Dissolve the people, elect a new one?
Politics 101 today runs the risk of being solely authored by autocrats from all over the world.
10m ago
Resolutions for 2024
Eating less and battling calories have been pains of the highest order. But little do we know that our minds have everything to do with our appetite.
11m ago
What do they want from Bangladesh?
Instead of better governance and practices yielding better returns, most US companies emphasise 'value' over 'values.'
11m ago
Remembering Annisul Huq: The man behind the public persona
Six years ago, a perfectly healthy man in his 60s just left me and my children in a state of shock and emptiness.
12m ago
A tale of the Green versus the Red
The RMG sector needs to be united in being professional, go forward with value addition and, most of all, opt for strong industrial relations with labour.
1y ago
October 3, 2018
The rules of a shout and the dangers of a murmur
In a world where Martin Luther King was declared as “the most dangerous hero” by the FBI two days after his “I Have a Dream” speech, in a world where Muslims are often viewed as perpetually guilty, in a world where journalists are jailed for doing their job, in a world where the US government can spy on journalists using...
September 26, 2018
The prospects and power of growth
The high-speed train from Hong Kong to Mainland began four days ago. It will now only take 50 minutes to reach Guangzhou from Hong Kong.
September 12, 2018
Cosmopolitan Ethic in Action
In spite of Trump calling Bob Woodward, the author of the book Fear, a liar; in spite of a world where winners have boos raining on them instead of ovation, like in the case of Naomi Osaka...
September 5, 2018
The Perils of Neutrality
Very often, we cherry pick what we call discrimination or bias and launch movements. Very often, we voice our views and receive backlashes. Thus, many of us stay on the fence, not choose sides and maintain our general acceptable levels of civic sanity. That is what we do.
August 29, 2018
Moral authority and immoral U-turns
Many moons ago, the world believed in philosophy, religion and politics. Not wholly true anymore. We see acute reversals on a regular basis. We have more heroes falling from grace every day—more than ever before.
August 1, 2018
Tomorrow People
Children in blue and white uniforms came marching straight towards our cars. Watching them was like watching a sea of protest, meant to sweep us off our shores of comfort.
July 18, 2018
Isolation: A buried route
Let's just think about what Donald Trump recently did. He wooed Putin and tried to stitch the US and Russia together without knowing the difference between Great Britain, England and the United Kingdom.
July 4, 2018
The paradoxes of progress
Humanity is supposed to have progressed. A Harvard University professor, Steven Pinker, argues in favour of it in his new book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress. On maximum standards of well-being, we are apparently faring way better than we did ever before.
June 14, 2018
Sleeves of Identity
Most of us want to live forever. Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, hopes to live to be 120. Dmitry Itskov, the Russian internet billionaire, aspires to live to 10,000. Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, finds the end of life “incomprehensible,” while Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, hopes to “cure” it.
May 30, 2018
In deception we trust?
I loved Morgan Freeman. Somehow, that beard and that skin always used to give off a sincere feel. Having a penchant for films that
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