Aasha Mehreen Amin

Lately, my newsfeed has been ablaze with outrage over certain remarks by the head of Jamaat-e-Islami. His latest statement is that if his party comes to power, women will work for five hours but be paid for eight, with the employers footing five, the government kindly covering the other three.

To argue that music causes moral decay is not only baseless—it’s dangerous.

Threats of repeated sexual violence subtly aim to intimidate and exclude women from public participation spaces

When we are informed that 133 women have been killed by their husbands in seven months, it is no longer just a number.

If his life had not been so cruelly cut short, Faraaz Ayaz Hossain would have been a young man just waiting to enter his 30s. Would he, like his brother Zaraif, be working in his grandfather’s business alongside his mother Simeen Rahman, the current CEO of Transcom Group, who has had to live these nine years with the worst burden any parent could carry?

There is chaos and dissent in every corner and no one seems to have a grip on anything.

This arrest is particularly jarring, even in this current environment where arbitrary murder cases are being filed against suspected AL sympathisers or beneficiaries.

There is a staggering lack of empathy, respect, and compassion in our society, which has seeped into many of our young people.