CROSS TALK
Mohammad Badrul Ahsan
CROSS TALK
Editor, First News and opinion writer for The Daily Star badrul151@yahoo.com
Iron grip of persecution, hunger and discrimination
4 May 2017, 18:00 PM
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
How can India win if Bangladesh does not?
27 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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
Who's going to save politics from money?
15 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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
6 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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
Terrorism was never in the DNA
30 March 2017, 18:00 PM
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
Great ideals are ghost lights at night
23 March 2017, 18:00 PM
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
Presidential humour and the irony of education
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM
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
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM
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
A dialogue of the deaf?
THE civil society members have done the most civilised thing. They have made an appeal to the president, prime minister and the BNP chairperson for a dialogue to save this country.
12 February 2015, 18:00 PM