Opinion / Dear mothers, stop coddling your sons
If we want decent men, we must start by raising decent boys.
5 December 2025, 03:00 AM
Five hours of work, three hours of gratitude
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.
14 November 2025, 02:00 AM
Opinion / Without song, the soul is a desert
To argue that music causes moral decay is not only baseless—it’s dangerous.
22 September 2025, 02:00 AM
Threatening to gang-rape is not just vile, it’s a crime
Threats of repeated sexual violence subtly aim to intimidate and exclude women from public participation spaces
5 September 2025, 03:00 AM
Domestic violence in Bangladesh: When numbers speak of the silence
When we are informed that 133 women have been killed by their husbands in seven months, it is no longer just a number.
23 August 2025, 02:00 AM
Faraaz’s message of embracing humanity
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?
30 June 2025, 18:31 PM
Opinion / The interim government’s silence over misogyny is tragic
There is chaos and dissent in every corner and no one seems to have a grip on anything.
30 May 2025, 03:00 AM
Reaction / Nusraat Faria’s arrest sends an ominous message to the people
This arrest is particularly jarring, even in this current environment where arbitrary murder cases are being filed against suspected AL sympathisers or beneficiaries.
20 May 2025, 06:29 AM
Stand by Them
One of the most uplifting scenes when you are on the streets of any city, village or town, anywhere in the world, is the sight of hordes of girls in crisp school uniforms, a spring in their step, their faces glowing with carefree youth, as they prance forward in the beautiful journey called life.
19 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Paid by the public for the good of the public
They say they are going to be giving international awards for the country that has sent the most public officials abroad.
3 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Well done, Rab
It is unfortunately not a common occasion these days that one hears that law enforcers have promptly caught sex offenders and made
27 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Analysis: Catching sex offenders, good job Rab
It is a rare sense of relief to note that the Rab has been able to arrest two men in connection with the gang-rape of a young Garo woman a few days ago.
27 May 2015, 11:46 AM
Opinion: Human trafficking and Myanmar denial
The continuous media exposure of the humanitarian crisis caused by thousands of illegally trafficked people, has led to an international demand to give these sick people – humanitarian aid first.
23 May 2015, 12:10 PM
Looking for a HERO
After a very long time I have started to find heroes in our country. It isn't that they were not there, they always existed - it's just that I didn't know how to look for them.
20 May 2015, 18:00 PM
How to solve a stinking problem
The video a loved one sent me to cheer me up certainly did the trick. It was a very well edited documentary of the Ministry of Religious Affairs about a unique move to solve the problem of men using the walls of the city as public toilets.
9 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Most Needed and Most Neglected
ONE of the most cherished privileges many expat Bangladeshis miss about their motherland is the comfort of having others do all their household chores –
30 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Dhaka - A woman-unfriendly city
"This is not a woman-friendly city, dear mayoral aspirants. That is perhaps the most glaring parameter of failure of our consecutive governments."
22 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Driving reverse gear?
I have a recurring nightmare that plagues me every few months. While the circumstances are not always identical,
15 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Monuments of Greed
GREED is an ugly thing. To see just how grotesque it can be, just look up from your vehicle and try to get a broad view of the city as it spreads out in front of you.
9 April 2015, 18:00 PM
The eerie sound of silence
IT'S almost like a ritual killing that will happen every now and then. The word 'blogger' has become the most hateful word in the dictionary of religious extremists.
1 April 2015, 18:00 PM
A basic instinct
It's hard to say when it will hit you, usually when you will least expect it to. For me it was when I was in Kindergarten in London, with
25 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Tribulations of Transparency
ONE of the buzzwords of the 21st century attached to other buzzwords like 'democracy,' 'progressive thinking' and 'participatory' is 'transparency.'
18 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Embrace the F word
Isn't it weird that in an age when we are so advanced that we are talking about making robots do the laundry, video games to make us
7 March 2015, 19:03 PM
The Last of the Tuesday Blues
It's a Tuesday today, the day we go to print, the day my colleagues, friends and family try to stay out of my way knowing the rise in my level of crankiness.
27 February 2015, 11:52 AM
THE MAN BEHIND THE MAGIC
It is hard to speak out honestly in a world that is so intolerant of divergent views and so harsh in judging anything that challenges the status quo.
27 February 2015, 09:32 AM
Groovy* is not Cool Anymore
“Ma, teacher onek para ditase homework kori nay bole” (Ma my teacher is giving me a lot of 'para' because I didn't submit my homework), says your school going kid one day.
20 February 2015, 12:06 PM
WANTED Attention
We all crave attention. The need to be liked or even just noticed compels us to do the craziest things.
And we're not talking about people like Lady Gaga or Nikki Minaj who take such craving to shocking levels. Even non- celebrities may go to great lengths to get people to at least look at them.
6 February 2015, 13:30 PM