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Iron grip of persecution, hunger and discrimination

Experts tell us that it should take another 150 to 170 years to close the gender pay gap around the world. Bad news for the mothers,
4 May 2017, 18:00 PM
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How can India win if Bangladesh does not?

Which between the two countries has gained more from Bangladesh prime minister's visit to India this month? The question appears no less intriguing than the long-standing debate over which came first between chicken and egg.
27 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Who's going to save politics from money?

Bees make honey, but it's easier said than done. They have to fly 55,000 miles and visit roughly 2 million flowers to produce a pound of honey.
15 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Cowards strung together in a daisy chain

Cowards strung together in a daisy chain

Shame is thus the flipside of honour, and one can't exist without the other. Shameless people can't be honourable, and honourable people can't be shameless.
6 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Terrorism was never in the DNA

The skein of yarn spun out of the Palestinian struggle, and then got twisted in the relentless Western maneuvering in the Middle East to defend Israel.
30 March 2017, 18:00 PM
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Great ideals are ghost lights at night

An increase in elevation lowers air pressure, which makes breathing difficult for a climber. The underwater world becomes increasingly blue and eventually black as a diver goes deeper.
23 March 2017, 18:00 PM
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Presidential humour and the irony of education

The President of the Republic went public with his academic records, while addressing the 50th convocation of Dhaka University on March 4.
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Lies make us blind in full sight

Lies make us blind in full sight

If an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, what does a lie for a lie do to us?
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM
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Looking for common grounds or common interests?

If national unity is an issue today, it also was an issue before. Our leaders didn't want to recognise it then, and they don't want to recognise it now. Meanwhile, a crack has grown into a giant hole.
28 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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The Americans should have their own Chilcot

The Americans don't need to carry the burden of one man's guilt on their conscience. They, like the British people, have the right to know why their former leader had lied to take their country to a wasteful war.
21 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Terrorism

Terrorism is a suicide note written in blood

On the first day of this month, which also coincided with the first day of the Eid holidays for many, this nation was punched in the stomach while it was breaking out in laughter.
14 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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Fame is fleeting and it's so hollow!

First it was the largest Indian state of Rajasthan that ejected Jawaharlal Nehru from its school textbook in the first week of last May...
30 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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Omar Mateen's ghost breathing inside Donald Trump?

Lets start with this absurd disclaimer that no identification with actual persons portrayed in this hypothesis is intended or should be inferred.
23 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Is the crackdown dousing fire with kerosene?

The ongoing crackdown is only rounding up hundreds of men every day with the jest of fishermen dragging a river. But can the numbers deliver the results, because a crackdown works like stray bullets having the greater chance of missing than hitting the targets?
16 June 2016, 18:00 PM

A book that can't be made into film

Syed Fahim Munaim, the late CEO and Chief Editor of Maasranga Television, who died on June 1, can be best described as the life support system for an indefatigable smile.
9 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Who's responsible for the deaths in UP elections?

The CEC has tried to blame everything on the political culture prevailing in the country, which sounded funny. It has only convinced the rest of us that he was blaming the dance floor to hide that he didn't know how to dance.
2 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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What happens when living in the void?

Nothing comes from nothing” is a philosophical expression first argued by pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides.
26 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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A teacher has been taught his lesson!

Greek historian Herodotus, living in the fifth century, couldn't have known in advance that a headmaster was going to be humiliated in Narayanganj on the second Friday of May 2016.
19 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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Does it matter who's the next US president?

Both Ted Cruz and John Kasich have fallen by the wayside, while Donald Trump dashed to the finishing line of Republican Party nomination for the US presidential race in 2016.
12 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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How much courage is needed to be cowards?

This nation is now stupefied with horror. We're afraid of what we see but don't have the courage to see what we're afraid of. We don't always know what's right and what's wrong. But the mind is akin to someone lying in bed, changing his position. It wants to toss and turn before it goes to sleep.
5 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Obama's Libya admission and the clockwork world

Less than five years after the Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi was ousted from power, US president Barack Obama has made a
28 April 2016, 18:00 PM
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Panorama of perfidy in the Panama Papers

Ever since the Panama Papers hit the fan, the leak has been working like a series of introductions at a high-profile gathering.
21 April 2016, 18:00 PM

How shall we find our way back?

For argument's sake, let's assume this country suddenly wakes up and wants to fix things. Who is going to do it? Who will decide what is right or wrong, sinful or virtuous, wise or stupid, and useful or useless?
7 April 2016, 18:00 PM

An award that couldn't be rewarding enough

Different people inhabit different worlds and one man's trophy is another man's trash. Jean Paul Sartre rejected Nobel Prize for literature in 1964. Hollywood actor Marlon Brando turned down the Academy Award for the Best Actor in 1973. But a heartbroken poet of this country resorted to bizarre antics last week
24 March 2016, 18:00 PM
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Bangladesh Bank governor confused hubris with heroism

The governor of Bangladesh Bank has resigned, which is an appreciable act intermediate between compulsion and courage, and he
17 March 2016, 18:00 PM
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Is the dream of democracy going downhill?

Loss of standard in many democracies has created its own double standard.
10 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Dual citizenship challenges expression of national loyalty

It’s understood if you have two families and hold two jobs, but not if you express two beliefs in one conversation.
3 March 2016, 18:00 PM
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A lighthouse has gone dark and silent

Iowe him my first job, the memo-writing skills, the vast concourse of discourses on virtually everything on earth, and roughly half the
29 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Pagination

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