By giving their opinions a religious tag, groups or individuals have managed to get away with vicious assaults on women
From that pivotal moment on August 5, the subsequent events in the next 30 days have been just as dramatic
There is no shame in admitting that in the last few days many of us have cried helplessly, over the senseless deaths of students—teenagers or in their early twenties—the same age or close to the ages of our children.
The bug of relentless connectivity to some world or the other has infected us, and there seems to be no cure.
Student protestors are calling out the double standards of Western powers
The history of civilisation has shown that humans survive when they are part of a community.
The vicious cycle of taking loans to pay bills and then taking another loan to pay off the first loan may continue throughout their lives, with little or no real improvement in their living standards.
Women are crazy because they set the bar ridiculously high for themselves, with no thought of self-preservation.
The cries for justice all over the country have fallen on deaf ears. Nobody knows who killed Sohagi Jahan Tonu, the second year history student of Comilla Victoria Government College.
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All over the country people are protesting – students, parents, cultural activists. They are calling for justice for Tonu.
It is hardly a topic we like to talk about -- a 'dirty', 'shameful' 'necessary evil' -- but something that its consumers are not willing to
It is perhaps a primal instinct in all animals, to exercise control and power over the weak and the helpless. It is pretty much how the world has worked in the last few thousand years. Even among the earliest humans, it was the stronger group or tribe that dominated the physically less able, sometimes even
The dejection in 15-year-old Ranjina Khatun Rojoni's face says it all. Physical pain, humiliation, disillusionment and despair are all written in that child's countenance – expressions that tell us how we have failed our children.
There are other more solemn occasions where ritualistic behaviour takes on ridiculous proportions. Take the placing of wreaths at memorials on particular days.