Opinion / A newspaper, a nation, and the ashes of memory
The English daily contributed to exposing Hasina's tyranny and corruption.
29 December 2025, 06:00 AM
29 December 2025, 06:00 AM
The nuisance of distorting Begum Rokeya’s legacy
When I first heard about the desecration of Roquiah Sakhawat Hossain, popularly known as Begum Rokeya, at Dhaka University in the aftermath of the July uprising,
17 December 2025, 05:00 AM
17 December 2025, 05:00 AM
Ordeals of a July uprising warrior / ‘Protesters are not given medical care here’
How a July warrior was denied immediate medical care.
27 July 2025, 07:00 AM
27 July 2025, 07:00 AM
Battle for the last word on the July uprising
Bangladeshis under Hasina’s regime suffered on two levels: physical and epistemic/cognitive/perceptual.
25 July 2025, 10:00 AM
25 July 2025, 10:00 AM
Are Bangladeshis anti-Indian?
To understand the recent surge of so-called anti-Indian views among Bangladeshis, we need to examine the misrule that shipwrecked their country.
19 April 2025, 08:41 AM
19 April 2025, 08:41 AM
Char dakhal in art and politics
The proverbial practice of char dakhal has now extended to politics in the form of chandabaji (money extortion) as a metaphor for criminal greed.
22 March 2025, 10:00 AM
22 March 2025, 10:00 AM
ESSAY / 'A terrible beauty is born' in Gaza and West Bank
Pre-occupation Palestine had, to use Anglo-American poet WH Auden's words, "marble well-governed cities" full of "vines and olive trees." But Israel and its allies have turned it into "an artificial wilderness"
12 March 2025, 18:00 PM
12 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Gender and spirituality: Role of men and women in Ramadan
Transforming Ramadan from a month of fasting into one of feasting and then forcing women to cook extravagant meals ruins the purpose of the holy month.
9 March 2025, 10:00 AM
9 March 2025, 10:00 AM
A country drifting into political paralysis
Ali Riaz sadly observes that the country is fast drifting into a political paralysis and descending into the abyss of authoritarianism, while maintaining a democratic facade.
16 January 2024, 14:00 PM
A civility test between Israelis and Palestinians
As opposed to the negative and pejorative assumptions about Palestinians, Israelis are routinely described as civilised and democratic.
7 December 2023, 03:00 AM
Israel-Palestine issue: Governments and media insult citizens’ intelligence
Readers may remember an incident at the 2011 G20 summit that took place in the French city of Cannes. The then US President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy were having an informal conversation in between summit sessions.
30 October 2023, 11:00 AM
Sharenting and how it violates our children’s rights
All children on Earth are entitled to the right to privacy, and we must respect it, be it offline or online.
6 July 2023, 03:00 AM
The rhetoric of 'it happens' and whataboutism in political apologia
To use previous incidents of human rights violations to condone those of the present is hypocrisy and a macabre mockery of the past and present victims.
9 January 2023, 15:30 PM
Sajid’s and Sourodip’s victory: To debate or not to debate
A good occasion of national pride and celebration for us as Bangladeshis. But we were not sufficiently thrilled.
5 August 2022, 11:18 AM
Thoughts on Sajid’s and Sourodip’s victory
Two university students have made Bangladesh the first Asian country to win the World Universities Debating Championships. Will this stunning rhetorical feat spark the spirit of debate in our society?
4 August 2022, 13:30 PM