KNOT SO TRUE
BANGLADESH RMG SECTOR / 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.
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.
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?
Opinion / Dissolve the people, elect a new one?
Politics 101 today runs the risk of being solely authored by autocrats from all over the world.
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.
What do they want from Bangladesh?
Instead of better governance and practices yielding better returns, most US companies emphasise 'value' over 'values.'
RMG Protests / 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.
Politics of Fire
Let the truth be known: no one has any idea what’s going to happen to Bangladeshi politics.
Free pages, free lenses
There’s a reason why, in the land that we live on, 217 journalists have reportedly been harassed, tortured and repressed in the last nine months and why one even died.
Life after #GotaGoHome
Among four South Asian nations, Sri Lanka performed the best in containing high inflation.
“Book down,” indeed!
After all, with the atmosphere heating up, we will indeed need an army of well-built students to be ready as “kormis” of parties, in order to become our sacrificial goats at their altar.
The art of breathing
How do the monks on ice live magically and produce wonders through detachment from worldly angst?
Obituary of Truth
Truth recently decided to die an inglorious death as it got tired of watching rulers leading their nations with lies.
Aabha Limited: The ray of inclusion and empowerment
How do the lives of the underserved women change and who can potentially come forward and become a part of their story?
Ease, isolation and awakening
The apparent return to basics, the turn to healthier living, the leap to soliloquys have turned out to be beneficial. At least in theory, we all agree that the world needed a correction.
Lessons, Reversals and Truth
We are living in a time of self-doubt, of suspicion, of negation, and of regret.
Covid-19, Industry and Bureaucracy
When the sky isn’t looking clear anymore, to say you are watching the clouds go by with the hope of a better day is being cautiously optimistic.
The disconnect between the industry and others
I took a break from writing columns ever since I took over as the President of the Bangladesh Manufacturers and Exporters Association.