Rubana Huq

The RMG sector needs to be united in being professional, go forward with value addition and, most of all, opt for strong industrial relations with labour.

Let the truth be known: no one has any idea what’s going to happen to Bangladeshi politics.

There’s a reason why, in the land that we live on, 217 journalists have reportedly been harassed, tortured and repressed in the last nine months and why one even died.

Students have always been the first to engage in discourses on divisive borders with imagined, imposing lines, language, religion or tradition.

Among four South Asian nations, Sri Lanka performed the best in containing high inflation.

After all, with the atmosphere heating up, we will indeed need an army of well-built students to be ready as “kormis” of parties, in order to become our sacrificial goats at their altar.

In spite of the Real remaining intensely vulnerable to propaganda and the power of the state, a Lie will never replace the Truth.

The protective line around my existence, my Lakshmana rekha, is not just myth.

Who would want to move for democracy and risk losing it all?

How do the monks on ice live magically and produce wonders through detachment from worldly angst?

Truth recently decided to die an inglorious death as it got tired of watching rulers leading their nations with lies.

How do the lives of the underserved women change and who can potentially come forward and become a part of their story?

The apparent return to basics, the turn to healthier living, the leap to soliloquys have turned out to be beneficial. At least in theory, we all agree that the world needed a correction.

It was 2013 that brought about a massive change in the local garment industry. Rana Plaza had collapsed and with around 1,132 lives lost in the incident, the entire nation suffered a sense of collective grief.

We are living in a time of self-doubt, of suspicion, of negation, and of regret.

When the sky isn’t looking clear anymore, to say you are watching the clouds go by with the hope of a better day is being cautiously optimistic.

I took a break from writing columns ever since I took over as the President of the Bangladesh Manufacturers and Exporters Association.

Over 8,000 km away, everything looks different. The skies, the sunrise, the people and of course, trade. In Paris, the three-day Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector,

I always need a clean sheet to write on. I always prefer the backside of a calendar month to detail projects.

Back from the UNGA. In the last 5 months and 10 days that I have been serving as president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, my brain has been on an overdrive.