Rubana Huq

Early morning tweets are something I wake up to and they form the structure of my day. Most news items shape the next 16 hours.

Too many leaks are happening these days. White House staffers have been leaking information.

I am so glad that children of powerful people are not being able to get away with rape.”

Very often, we walk away from our losses and just expect to recover. Well, we don't. Memories last forever, especially if they are torturous in nature and form. The best way is to work around the pain and address it the way we ought to.

A South Asian woman is often subjected to innumerable rituals. In Bangladesh, for the majority of the population, if a baby girl is born, the Azaan (call for prayer) is quietly whispered into her ears.

The tale of the three million female workers in the readymade garment industry is an unbeatable narrative of toil and survival.

There was a time when the film industry in the subcontinent used Indo-Pak plots to create pre-film-release-tension-teasers to attract more audience.

It's time to start a #SheForShe movement. Unless women just stop expecting men to help them realign their statuses, then victory for women will always remain elusive. The only way is to help each other out, increase mentorship programmes and impact each other's lives.

We are proud. They want laptops to work on. This is what Sathy and Rokeya have written to me. Both are now studying at the Asian University for Women situated in Chittagong and are having the time of their lives.

By habit, I shake the morning newspapers violently every morning. This way, I shake redundance off the pages.

Luckily we don't live in the United States of America. Luckily we don't have to take to the streets to protest the executive orders of the president.

Three hundred and sixty nine billion people, who constitute the poorest 50 percent own USD 426 billion.

This year, many of us read about 'listening hairbrushes' taking control of our split ends, toothbrushes filming the inside of our mouths, beds reacting to a person's sleeping position, cars learning from the brains of drivers, like the Concept-i car by Toyota, which, with an advanced artificial intelligence system, can act as a faithful dog or a pining boyfriend.

1 and 9 have always been the most significant numbers in my life. Most of what has happened to me (save one) has always taken place on dates that add to either 1 or 9.

I get apprehensive every time I discover a questionnaire on my table. Each questionnaire seems to be arriving with a specific agenda.

I saw a butterfly following me around. Usually, butterflies mean either death or marriage in the family. Every time, I see one, I shudder in fear and uncertainty.

The BGMEA building has been termed a "cancer". Today, it is almost symbolic to bring the BGMEA building down.

Strangely, we are not where we used to be anymore. Students who used to steer movements against tyranny have themselves become tyrants.

A car hit one of the workers working in our house this morning. He was cleaning the wall and the car smashed his bones.

What has actually gone wrong in the South Asian landscape? If one singles Pakistan out in this South Asian equation, one then naturally wonders, why the leaders of a single country that is projected to take off as the next investment friendly area, be unwise to jeopardise regional integration that could turn South Asia to record the highest GDP growth by 2030?