Mahfuz Anam

The AL MP from Fenchuganj, Sylhet, Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury, in a speech on May 9, in his constituency, termed Professor Zafar Iqbal as “One hundred thousand percent idiot”.

Three conclusions can be drawn from the just concluded city polls in Dhaka and Chittagong:

We have known of many deaths over many years. In fact, we are running the risk of becoming desensitised about it all as if unnatural

Every struggle for freedom and every instance of independence of a country usually comes at a huge cost. We are among those

Today we celebrate this paper's 24 years of service to the people of Bangladesh through “Journalism without Fear or Favour” based on

HAVE any of our politicians been listening to Arvind Kejriwal's speeches, especially the one after he took oath as the chief minister of the Indian capital? I suppose not. To be fair, neither did the Indian politicians before his magnificent victory in the latest Delhi Assembly polls. If they had, they may not have met the debacle that they did.

Ekushey February provides a soul-stirring occasion to reflect on the long road we have travelled since some of our brave young men died in defence of the mother tongue in 1952. On the one hand, we go back in time to recreate within our collective consciousness the