Badiuzzaman Bay

The “Bangalee way” in the sense of a single, linear way is a myth at best, and nationalist propaganda at worst.

Facts, once the prerogative of the media, used to be sacred. Now, they are just fodder in an increasingly hostile war of narratives.

We toy with the idea of change, but seek accommodation with the status quo.

Inflation followed by greedflation followed by shrinkflation – is there no way out of this trap?

While the manner in which the DSA is being defended is nothing new, the timing bears significance

Living with Dhaka’s noise pollution is a gruelling endurance test.

Drink it all in.

For human rights advocates, 2022 has been a catastrophic year.

To the uninitiated, the public interaction between our prime minister and state officials may seem curious at times.

There are a few possible explanations behind why the EC chose to suspend the Gaibandha-5 by-poll

Plans to build a prison on forestland show that the country is in environmental free-fall

Despite huge investments being made in the railways, the authorities are struggling to offer decent services thanks to sheer corruption and irregularities.

“Digital Bangladesh” continues to be a central plank of the ruling Awami League, despite the failure of its techno-utopian Vision 2021.

Here’s an image that will likely be seared into our memory forever: a teacher being forced to wear a garland of shoes around his neck.

Now that the Cumilla City Corporation (CCC) election is over and everything there was to see and hear has been seen and heard, we need to address the elephant in the room.

No, silly, there is no such prize for violence. That’s just a conversation starter. After all, what better way to invoke the mighty Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) than with a nod to violence?

The pitfall of measuring development based on macrodata is that it shows the big picture, but fails to account for development achieved, if at all, on a micro/personal level.

For a party so image-conscious and so demanding of "clean image" from its candidates, Awami League surely knows how to make a muck of things and draw unflattering attention.

The idea of a justice system hinges on people’s faith in its ability to offer fair solutions. So justice, as the saying goes, should not only be done, but be seen to be done as well, so that people’s faith in it is kept intact.

It’s been quite some time since we’ve had a Pahela Baishakh in the middle of Ramadan. The convergence of the two occasions, not necessarily a clash of ideologies, begs appreciation of life in its many nuances and complexities.