Media today has transformed into a spectacular performance focused on visibility.
What is perhaps more insidious than the acts themselves is the language that now surrounds them. The lexicon of liberation has deliberately opted for expletives.
We need to change our mindset and up our game to improve our universities’ standing.
The collective numbness contradicts the spirit with which the masses stormed the streets in July last year.
Central to the formation of the panel is the objective of minimising political interference in the selection of top university managers.
Central to the JnU crisis is a list of broken promises.
It’s easy to dismiss Dhaka as an unliveable city. The challenge is to replace that tantrum with the determination to make the city better.
Begum’s Blunder is a clever adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan. The play transports the Victorian setting to the imaginary Behrampur, the heyday of the Nawabs in India. With Naila Azad Nupur’s direction, and Sadaf Saaz working her behind-the-scenes magic as the producer, the production by Kaleidoscope projects lights on the prism of Wilde’s 1892 play to find their contemporary refractions and reflections in colonial India.
As I stand before the heap of fresh meat, my thoughts turn to the slain politician who was hacked to death
The UGC's decision to allow private universities to offer PhD programmes is a timely move.
A prestigious ranking system naming Dhaka University as the top university in Bangladesh makes us revisit that love-hate stance.
Moral policing by the West, when its own hypocrisy comes out through its actions controvening international law, one cannot help feeling bemused.
Dhaka is the world's rickshaw capital
The interplay between myths and scientific explanations of auroras illustrates human being’s capacity to find meaning in the natural world.
The utilitarian value of a university must reflect the institution's inherent value.
What people like Milton Samaddar and Tipu Kibria show us about society.
The heavy-handedness led students in Atlanta to shout, "Stop Cop City."
