CROSS TALK
Iron grip of persecution, hunger and discrimination
Experts tell us that it should take another 150 to 170 years to close the gender pay gap around the world. Bad news for the mothers,
How can India win if Bangladesh does not?
Which between the two countries has gained more from Bangladesh prime minister's visit to India this month? The question appears no less intriguing than the long-standing debate over which came first between chicken and egg.
Who's going to save politics from money?
Bees make honey, but it's easier said than done. They have to fly 55,000 miles and visit roughly 2 million flowers to produce a pound of honey.
Cowards strung together in a daisy chain
Shame is thus the flipside of honour, and one can't exist without the other. Shameless people can't be honourable, and honourable people can't be shameless.
Terrorism was never in the DNA
The skein of yarn spun out of the Palestinian struggle, and then got twisted in the relentless Western maneuvering in the Middle East to defend Israel.
Great ideals are ghost lights at night
An increase in elevation lowers air pressure, which makes breathing difficult for a climber. The underwater world becomes increasingly blue and eventually black as a diver goes deeper.
Presidential humour and the irony of education
The President of the Republic went public with his academic records, while addressing the 50th convocation of Dhaka University on March 4.
Lies make us blind in full sight
If an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, what does a lie for a lie do to us?
A lighthouse has gone dark and silent
Iowe him my first job, the memo-writing skills, the vast concourse of discourses on virtually everything on earth, and roughly half the
The giants and the pygmies amongst us
One thing constant in the varying nature of killing children is how ruthlessly a life is nipped in the bud. Be it infanticide, prolicide or paedocide, that nipping is shocking no matter who does it and how it's done.
The multiplier effect of an editor's admission
Sixty-nine lawsuits to date have been filed against one man that makes this great country look like a giant incubator for witch hunters. All the war criminals are being tried by two tribunals, whereas courts after courts are being engaged to drag a decent man from pillar to post.
The abiding confusion of law abiding citizens
We need to understand who is right and who is wrong as well as how to go about it in the future. Law can't be an ad hoc thing, and it shouldn't be a coat one has to cut according to one's cloth.
Elected autocrats and the decline of democracy
If the dawn of democracy arrived in Athens 2,500 years ago, how has its day progressed in as many years?
Can Ershad's brother be his brother's keeper?
Hussain Muhammad Ershad never retired from politics because he never got tired of it.
Homeopath's guide to police brutality in Bangladesh
From the look of things, it appears that the policemen in Bangladesh are drawing inspiration from the homeopath's guide to potency and dosage.
Bridging the gap between preaching and practicing
Scientists have claimed that in next five to ten years they are going to invent the cloak of invisibility.
Taking self shots in front of foreign mirrors
In his farewell address in 1796, the first US president George Washington warned against the influence of attachment of one nation for another.
Khaleda Zia's numeracy and the 1971 genocide
God knows why BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia chose to make her case at this point in time. Whether it was some divine revelation or a