Opinion
ESSAY / Ali Riaz’s ‘More than Meets the Eye’ and a writer’s responsibility
Writers and intellectuals are obligated to stir moral indignation at gross injustices and the plight of the masses.
Why Randomised Controlled Trials need to include human agency
There’s a buzz abroad in the development community around a new way to tackle extreme poverty. For exemple BRAC’s Targeting the Ultra Poor (TUP) programme combines asset transfers (usually livestock), cash stipends, and intensive mentoring to women and families in extreme poverty in order to help them “graduate” into more sustainable livelihoods within two years.
After Bhola / Five takes on the proliferation of fake news to instigate communal unrest and its larger political implications
Violence in Bhola preceded with a familiar pattern of events, blaming a member of a religious minority for demeaning Islam, creating a frenzy and then mobilising the angry people to the street.
A BAN ON STUDENT POLITICS / Cutting the head to cure a headache?
Speaking as a representative of the students, I want to reiterate that the BUET students are demanding that only party politics be banned on campus—not student politics in general. To be more specific, they are demanding the ban of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL).
A Vices’ circle
I don’t know whether to call it luck that we get to witness the development of a brand-new English phrase right under our noses. The
From victims to villains: The changing discourse on Rohingyas
Yet another attempt to send Rohingyas back to Myanmar ended up in an embarrassing debacle last week: Not a single Rohingya
Opinion / Neoliberal apologetics: The fallacy of boycotting meat to save the Amazon
This week, the tragic news that massive wildfires are raging in the Amazon has shocked the world. As photos of burning trees, fleeing
Opinion / The one thing missing from the conversation
What Priya Saha cited to Donald Trump is a statistical fallacy, and downright irresponsible, but what is way more problematic was our reaction to it.
Ghatak’s Glimpse into the future
We live in a materialised world where our lives revolve around technology. From reading books to means of communication, every little aspect of our lives is slowly being controlled by the machinery we build.
A demand for present situation!
Theodore Roosevelt warns, “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Let's Not Forget Her Cry
An old man of around eighty years of age is often seen crying. Sitting at the balcony of their small apartment, the heartbroken old man is waiting, in vain, for his only granddaughter—who was raped and killed four months ago. “I believe Tonu has not died.
Why do people not quit tobacco smoking?
Globally, the tobacco epidemic is considered to be the most prominent preventable cause of death, responsible for taking lives of an
Muchkund Dubey and Hindi translation of Fakir Lalon Shah's works
I have read reports in The Daily Star as well as in the Prothom Alo about a discussion held in Dhaka on 27th March 2016 by
Of Rape and Selective Outrage
‘It could've been my sister, it could've been my mother, it could've been me'. Every time the media reports on a story of a woman's rape,
How to Kill a Language
In a couple of days from now, the country will commemorate the day lives were lost in 1952 to preserve the Bengali language and, more
Things I didn't know about Journalism
What do you think about journalism? Reporter collects information, interviews sources, sorts the information and then the final copy of
Cha-erDokaan, On the Other Side of the World
It had been almost a year and a half since I had been home. Home, noun- the place where one lives permanently, especially as a
The Bangladesh We Speak of, 45 Years on
Picture a scenario where Mustafizur Rahman, the mercurial new addition to the Bangladeshi cricket team, claims a hattrick in the penultimate over of a game...