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.
It will be a crime to miss the post-uprising zeitgeist and not to overhaul our educational sector.
A pre-teen has been making news for boarding a Kuwait-bound flight from the Dhaka airport without any documentation.
Lack of clear vision hampers Bangladesh's space mission.
Will we hear yet another "eggcellent" proposal to import dub in order to force the local market to lower their price?
How do we deal with this growing trend where not only our young ones, but also our hard-earned money is going abroad?
As I stood before the bathroom mirror, I noticed a red laser spot. I instinctively turned around to look for a sniper. No one there. I chuckled and inspected the mirror.
Never for once, in the 55 years that he lived, did he doubt that his people, for whom he suffered so much, which included 4682 days or nearly 13 years in prison, could have betrayed him.
As an academic, what worries me is the exponential unfolding of a simple instance of academic dishonesty.
The allergic reaction to Hero Alom is symptomatic of a culture that deems him a foreign particle in their sociopolitical body.
For Milan Kundera, who passed away this week, the "misunderstood" usage of the word "world" in World War I has unwittingly trapped every local event in a common global situation.
Meat being less expensive than green chillies somehow symbolises the national failure of setting our priorities right.
