Mohammad Badrul Ahsan

God knows why BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia chose to make her case at this point in time. Whether it was some divine revelation or a

During the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the ruling oligarchy in Japan set out to "gather wisdom from all over the world". It sent "learning

A holiday commercial for a supermarket chain has triggered an emotional rollercoaster in Germany. It opens to a scene of an elderly...

Human civilisation is a contradiction in terms, because humans may not always be “civilised” and the “civilised” may not always be humans.

Donald Trump is full of ideas, but all his ideas are sadly full of it. This billionaire-turned-US politician has called China “the number one abuser...

The series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday killed 129 people, and some of those wounded remain in critical conditions.

Never before in our history have we lived in so much fear. Never before have we suffered from so much anxiety to find our enemies hiding in the crowd.

Famous American poet, writer and editor, Carl Sandburg, once said that life is like an onion which you peel off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Muscle flexing is dishonesty because it's coercion. Nepotism is dishonesty because it's discrimination. Election rigging is dishonesty because it's manipulation. Bribery is dishonesty because it's perversion. When all of these phenomena persist in a society or a country, how can its citizens be honest?

A single-party rule has its benefits, such as quick decision making and ready implementation. Then it has its inherent risks in the rise of tyranny and subjugation of people.

India under Narendra Modi is working like the recoil of a gun, when forward thrust is producing backward momentum. In most small

The nature of the crimes tells us one thing for sure, that these are the work of professional men. Whether those men acted on their own, or on behalf of an extremist group, or a political cartel is critical because that can give us an idea at what rate the fuse is burning to set off explosion.

The investigation into the Basic Bank fraud is the latest example of that twist of irony. A former managing director, other officials and a host of borrowers of the bank have been indicted.

In a nutshell, we're influencing education more than education is influencing us. Compared to an aircraft, fake diplomas, superficial learning, material pursuit and contempt for conscience have switched it from headwind to tailwind.

If there's a loving woman behind every successful man, there is a moving idea behind every fruitful action. Victor Hugo said that no army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

A revolution can either explode or implode, but it can't do both. The French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and the Chinese Revolution exploded when the rage of people shattered old regimes and installed new ones.

The killers are pathetically mixed up in their minds. They're alarmingly oblivious that destroying human life is criminal offense, not God's work. They deserve utmost condemnation and the highest possible punishment.

The question whether IS has been more brutal than the US is ever more relevant now than before. If the beheading part is excluded and killing is viewed as a contest, the US would far exceed its adversary by sheer number and ruthlessness.

Crime likens to math in the sense that some problems take longer time to solve, while many also remain hopelessly unresolved.

Once I gave money to a costumed intellectual, whose intellect subsequently proved more conspicuous in his costume than anywhere else.