NO STRINGS ATTACHED
Is it possible to escape from the seduction of smartphones?
The bug of relentless connectivity to some world or the other has infected us, and there seems to be no cure.
World leaders are disconnected from the youth
Student protestors are calling out the double standards of Western powers
Kindness gives life its biggest dividends
The history of civilisation has shown that humans survive when they are part of a community.
The poor’s debt burden gets heavier
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.
Opinion / A glimpse into the crazy, irrational mind of a woman
Women are crazy because they set the bar ridiculously high for themselves, with no thought of self-preservation.
When the mind gets foggier than the weather
There is an explanation, however infuriating, to each of the delightful conundrums in public work.
Images you cannot unsee
We will remember the faces of the smiling Gazan children and their families in the photos—the faces of people who have been wiped out for no fault of their own.
The universe is shutting us down. Can we restart?
After washing my hands for the eleventh time today, I am still not completely sure whether I touched something contaminated—the metal tap, the metal doorknob, the metal part of my pen.
The Unhappiness Factor
When we read about a woman being “gang-raped”, then raped again by her “rescuer” (The Daily Star, October 28, 2019), how long do we spend thinking about the unbelievable trauma this woman has gone through?
The privilege of being a brown South Asian traveller
One of the interesting perks of being a brown South Asian, travelling anywhere in the world, is the special attention you get from various official quarters.
A DU student’s trauma
Even before we can catch our breath as we enter a new year, a new decade, rape continues to haunt us, reminding us of its presence...
BCL violence again
You have to hand it to them—rain, hail or storm, Chhatra League manages to hog the headlines. The latest has been an attack on protesting students at JU who were demanding the
The tentacles of institutionalised violence reach everywhere
When we read how indivi-duals accused of a crime—drug peddling, terrorism or murder—get shot during a gun fight between their cohorts and the law enforcers we shrug it off without a bat of an eyelid. We know that these “gunfights”, “shootouts” or “encounters” are euphemisms for extrajudicial killing.
Abrar’s murder has opened Chhatra League’s Pandora’s box
It is a common belief that only meritorious, above-average students can get into a university like Buet. It’s no joke when amongst thousands of applicants, only a handful are selected.
Onions should not make you cry
When things hit rock bottom humans have a tendency to find ways to laugh at them. It is related to that ambivalence of a bizarre event when you don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
An apology to our children
“Since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago,” – Greta Thunberg, United Nations COP24 Climate Summit, Poland 2019
The criminality of ‘crime fighters’
The news story of police officials, including the OC, of a Pabna police station, forcing a gang-rape victim to marry one of the rapists is a perfect example of how perpetrators of a crime as heinous as rape, are allowed to go scot free with the help of
