Column by Mahfuz Anam / PM continues to build confidence, BNP corrodes it
4 September 2026
What are the lessons of July charter that need to be implemented?
4 September 2026
Column by Mahfuz Anam / Expectations from BNP’s next secretary general
21 August 2026
Congratulations to Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir for being elected president of Bangladesh. We believe he will restore to the post much of the dignity that was eroded by the former one.
21 August 2026
Column by Mahfuz Anam / Political acumen is fine, but economic expertise is crucial
7 August 2026
In Bangladesh, we love democracy, cherish it and fight for it, but we have repeatedly failed to make it durable.
7 August 2026
Column by Mahfuz Anam / July charter implementation: Growing distance between BNP and the opposition is worrisome
24 July 2026
After our Liberation War, we started off with the parliamentary system of government. Then Bangabandhu himself betrayed that vision and that of multiparty democracy by instituting BAKSAL, a one-party system, and introducing the presidential model of government.
24 July 2026
Column by Mahfuz Anam / 250 years of US independence: Do Americans know or care about their founding principles?
10 July 2026
America’s most powerful attraction—freedom of thought—is under stress today.
10 July 2026
Column by Mahfuz Anam / The PM says police don’t belong to any party. Can we establish this in practice?
15 May 2026
The prime minister’s quote that I use as the headline of this column is music to our ears, constituting the most vital policy directive that this country needs to take.
15 May 2026
Column by Mahfuz Anam / Politicisation of our professions
1 May 2026
A fact that we don’t discuss much, and seem to have taken as a given, is the politicisation of our various professions.
1 May 2026
Column by Mahfuz Anam: 35th anniversary of The Daily Star / When independent newspapers burn, so does democracy
24 April 2026
When independent, objective and fact-based newspapers are set on fire, it is democracy that burns.
24 April 2026
Dangerous desensitisation
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
2 April 2015
We took up arms for freedom, they took up arms for genocide
Every struggle for freedom and every instance of independence of a country usually comes at a huge cost. We are among those
25 March 2015
Thank you
Today we celebrate this paper's 24 years of service to the people of Bangladesh through “Journalism without Fear or Favour” based on
12 March 2015
Contrasting politics in Dhaka and Delhi
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.
22 February 2015
Remembering our language martyrs
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
22 February 2015