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Rubana Huq

KNOT SO TRUE

Dr Rubana Huq is vice-chancellor of Asian University for Women.

girls education in Bangladesh

Reimagining education for gender equity in Bangladesh

This shift in mindset must start with how and where we educate.
16 September 2025, 10:46 AM
A story of expansion, crisis and missed opportunities

BANGLADESH RMG SECTOR / A story of expansion, crisis and missed opportunities

Every time a Western consumer walks into the store and checks the manufacturing source, they don’t question the quality, but the ethical integrity of the product.
26 September 2024, 04:00 AM
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Transitions, coins, and lenses

Business associations have been subjected to an endless game of masquerade where garlands, pictures and faces changed with the direction of the political wind.
29 August 2024, 02:00 AM
My powerless poster walk

My powerless poster walk

Although we have the Graffiti Writing and Poster Sticking Control Act, 2012 to prevent visual pollution, nothing much has been done to implement it. Why, though?
26 January 2024, 01:00 AM
Bangladesh's 12th parliamentary election

Opinion / Dissolve the people, elect a new one?

Politics 101 today runs the risk of being solely authored by autocrats from all over the world.
11 January 2024, 02:00 AM
New year resolutions

Resolutions for 2024

Eating less and battling calories have been pains of the highest order. But little do we know that our minds have everything to do with our appetite.
28 December 2023, 04:00 AM
US trade sanctions against Bangladesh

What do they want from Bangladesh?

Instead of better governance and practices yielding better returns, most US companies emphasise 'value' over 'values.'
13 December 2023, 01:00 AM
Annisul Huq.jpg

Remembering Annisul Huq: The man behind the public persona

Six years ago, a perfectly healthy man in his 60s just left me and my children in a state of shock and emptiness.
30 November 2023, 02:00 AM
girls education in Bangladesh

Reimagining education for gender equity in Bangladesh

This shift in mindset must start with how and where we educate.
16 September 2025, 10:46 AM
A story of expansion, crisis and missed opportunities

A story of expansion, crisis and missed opportunities

Every time a Western consumer walks into the store and checks the manufacturing source, they don’t question the quality, but the ethical integrity of the product.
26 September 2024, 04:00 AM
op_2_3.jpg

Transitions, coins, and lenses

Business associations have been subjected to an endless game of masquerade where garlands, pictures and faces changed with the direction of the political wind.
29 August 2024, 02:00 AM
My powerless poster walk

My powerless poster walk

Although we have the Graffiti Writing and Poster Sticking Control Act, 2012 to prevent visual pollution, nothing much has been done to implement it. Why, though?
26 January 2024, 01:00 AM
Bangladesh's 12th parliamentary election

Dissolve the people, elect a new one?

Politics 101 today runs the risk of being solely authored by autocrats from all over the world.
11 January 2024, 02:00 AM
New year resolutions

Resolutions for 2024

Eating less and battling calories have been pains of the highest order. But little do we know that our minds have everything to do with our appetite.
28 December 2023, 04:00 AM
US trade sanctions against Bangladesh

What do they want from Bangladesh?

Instead of better governance and practices yielding better returns, most US companies emphasise 'value' over 'values.'
13 December 2023, 01:00 AM
Annisul Huq.jpg

Remembering Annisul Huq: The man behind the public persona

Six years ago, a perfectly healthy man in his 60s just left me and my children in a state of shock and emptiness.
30 November 2023, 02:00 AM
RMG protests Bangladesh.jpg

A tale of the Green versus the Red

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.
16 November 2023, 02:00 AM
Arson attacks

Politics of Fire

Let the truth be known: no one has any idea what’s going to happen to Bangladeshi politics.
8 November 2023, 04:00 AM
Free pages, free lenses

Free pages, free lenses

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.
25 October 2023, 01:00 AM
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Plains of protest

Students have always been the first to engage in discourses on divisive borders with imagined, imposing lines, language, religion or tradition.
18 October 2023, 01:00 AM
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Life after #GotaGoHome

Among four South Asian nations, Sri Lanka performed the best in containing high inflation.
11 October 2023, 03:00 AM
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“Book down,” indeed!

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.
3 October 2023, 01:00 AM
What's Real, really?

What’s Real, really?

In spite of the Real remaining intensely vulnerable to propaganda and the power of the state, a Lie will never replace the Truth.
26 September 2023, 04:51 AM
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I am. We are.

The protective line around my existence, my Lakshmana rekha, is not just myth.
19 September 2023, 01:15 AM
Lifespan of the Leviathan

Lifespan of the Leviathan

Who would want to move for democracy and risk losing it all?
12 September 2023, 03:05 AM
Art of breathing.

The art of breathing

How do the monks on ice live magically and produce wonders through detachment from worldly angst?
9 August 2023, 13:00 PM
Truth is dead

Obituary of Truth

Truth recently decided to die an inglorious death as it got tired of watching rulers leading their nations with lies.
12 February 2023, 13:00 PM
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Aabha Limited: The ray of inclusion and empowerment

How do the lives of the underserved women change and who can potentially come forward and become a part of their story?
19 November 2022, 11:00 AM

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