Five hours of work, three hours of gratitude
14 November 2025, 02:00 AM
Opinion
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
Opinion / Why are young men becoming so violent?
There is a staggering lack of empathy, respect, and compassion in our society, which has seeped into many of our young people.
30 April 2025, 02:00 AM
Who will speak for the George Floyds of Bangladesh?
In the US, being Black or just a person of colour is enough to get one killed or arrested by a cop, merely for being at the wrong place at the wrong time—or even the right place at the right time.
19 April 2022, 18:00 PM
Can traffic get any worse than this? Yes, it can.
Why is it that, no matter how many times we have experienced something unpleasant, we continue to do the exact same things we did before, expecting a different outcome?
11 April 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladeshis are so ‘senti’
Bengalis are well-known for being unusually driven by emotion, a trait that has brought about many great things—our right to speak in our mother tongue, our right to be independent.
26 March 2022, 18:00 PM
We must not stop talking about Tonu’s murder
As ritualistic as it may be, we must keep talking about the murder of Sohagi Jahan Tonu, even though there is nothing new to say—or precisely because of that.
19 March 2022, 18:00 PM
The consistent chaos that is Dhaka airport
Airports are the most fascinating places in the world. This forced congregation of total strangers from all corners of the world, rushing off to destinations as exotic as Zanzibar or Casablanca—isn’t it just wonderful?
20 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Our children will be our saviours
Is it really 2022? How did 2021 go so fast? Was it because we had such high expectations and ended up facing one daunting catastrophe after another, that we didn’t realise that the days had turned into weeks, weeks into months, and months into a whole year?
31 December 2021, 18:00 PM
‘I’m not a wall that divides. I’m a crack in that wall.’
Feminist icon, educator, and author Kamla Bhasin passed away on September 25, 2021, at the age of 75. The Daily Star pays tribute to her rich legacy by reprinting an interview first published in 2016.
26 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Victim blaming is a crime. Who are its abettors?
It would have gone unnoticed as another suicide of a heart-broken young woman, a forgettable statistic among the thousands of desperate individuals taking their own lives to escape some harsh reality or the other.
5 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Airborne transmissions could be the next new battle
The latest report in The Lancet, one of the most well-known international medical journals, on how Covid-19 spreads, is a real shocker.
24 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Are we looking at a hug-less world?
I have to confess, one of the most frustrating things I have had to face during The Year of Covid-19 is having to restrain myself from hugging people.
31 December 2020, 18:00 PM
The MP’s words are an insult to all women
One would think it to be the rantings of a madman had it not been the words of a parliamentarian—that feminists are to blame for the rape incidents across the country.
20 November 2020, 18:00 PM
Has the Noakhali gang rape shaken us enough?
By now, many people have already watched the video. Others could only stomach the transcript, also shared on social media.
5 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Air travel in the time of corona is surreal
I don’t know why I was expecting that I would not be fazed at embarking on a journey across the Atlantic at a time when just stepping out of my bedroom had the potential to kill me.
3 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Remembering Murtaja Baseer: The master of ‘abstract realism’
At 75, Murtaja Baseer is as agile and hyperactive as a child, with a mind as sharp and clear. In his cosy apartment in Manipuripara, Baseer eagerly shows his oil paintings stacked against the walls and explains the various phases that he has gone through as an artist and the mentors who have helped him along the way.
17 August 2020, 18:00 PM
A distressfully uncertain future created by the latest US foreign student guideline
Monday July 6 proved to arrive with ominous news for international students studying in the US, some of them still in the US, others back home for the summer as well as those who were scheduled to start university this fall.
9 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Glimpses of the man behind the visionary
I have often been tongue-tied in the presence of Latifur Rahman. Was it his impassive face and intense eyes that would look right through you, his relentless demand for accurate, precise answers?
2 July 2020, 18:00 PM
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.
26 March 2020, 18:00 PM
The Shackles of Womanhood
No this is not about all the stuff that will make you want to exterminate the male members of the Homo Sapien species. Let’s leave that to the regular pages. Let’s talk about the heaviness of other burdens that we women have been made to believe are crucial to our happiness.
6 March 2020, 18:00 PM
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?
2 March 2020, 18:00 PM
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.
6 February 2020, 18:00 PM