Maliha Khan

"From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet" by Vikram Seth is a 1983 travelogue about the author hitch-hiking through China in his student days.

In July 2017 alone, 22 females were stalked, one of whom committed suicide due to stalker harassment. A further 14 people were collateral damage for protesting stalking of the victims, of whom two men were killed and 11 people injured. Though females overwhelmingly constitute targets of stalking and sexual harassment, male family members and relatives protesting often too suffer violence at the hands of stalkers.

An estimated 200,000-400,000 women and girls were raped by the Pakistani army and their local Bengali collaborators during the Liberation War of Bangladesh. Six days after the war ended on December 16, 1971, women raped during the war were designated birangonas, war heroines, in an effort by the fledgling Bangladeshi government to recognise and honour them.

Why apps are unable to map Dhaka's traffic

Indigenous women suffer discrimination on multiple fronts—as women and as minorities

With greater independence in work and better pay, many Bangladeshi workers are turning to freelancing in the online marketplace.

Jane Austen is seeing something of a revival, if that can be said of an eternally popular writer, this year.

It is a long and difficult struggle for persons with intellectual, hearing and speech disabilities

While profit is the only bottom line for businesses, a social and/or environmental mission is paramount for social enterprises.

Since the announcement of the new budget, one of the main concerns of consumers countrywide has been the imposition of a flat 15 percent value added tax (VAT) rate on most goods and services.

The radio may be largely diminished as a medium for conveying information in modern urban life, but community radios in rural areas of Bangladesh are actually helping save lives during natural disasters.

Flimsy huts and lack of early warning in the camps lead to considerable damage.

One of the first pollution sources to be targeted was the transport sector—in 2004, the city introduced battery-powered rickshaws and banned large trucks in the city centre during daytime.

In the increasingly dense neighbourhood of Faidabad, Uttara, a humble brick structure outshines the nearby tall apartment buildings.

Sanjida Islam Nova, first girl of her class at Uttara's Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnessa Government High School, killed herself on May 8, 2017.

Sylvia Plath indeed died memorably as foreshadowed in a poem written in the final months of her life.

Senwara Begum sits at the door of her small hut with her nine-month-old baby at her breast. She has three other children, but there is nothing in the house to feed them.

In the chaos that is the running theme of the US elections, another election of a world leader is underway, albeit largely unnoticed, on US soil.