Shamsad Mortuza

An institutionalised mass wedding will replace one form of social regulation with another.

The Washington Post recently speculated that Dr Yunus’s soft power may have indirectly influenced the UAE's decision to grant clemency.

How do you process the nationwide humiliation of teachers?

The students are once again at the forefront by reaching out to the victims of the flood that has inundated the country’s eastern region.

While talking to our students, it was obvious that many of them are experiencing severe stress.

Identity and ideology politics also played an essential role in brewing the Bangla Bashanta.

Reconciliation cannot occur without truth-telling, accountability, and a commitment to dismantling the structures of violence that perpetuate inequality and injustice.

The movement was no longer about quotas; it was about justice.

Seeing our PhD holders choose menial jobs over research and innovation highlights a flaw in our educational policy.

Polarisation, rife with mutual fear and rage, is on the rise. Something dark and sinister is occurring.

Why does it matter for us when a foreign individual is free after such a long time?

Begum’s Blunder is a clever adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan. The play transports the Victorian setting to the imaginary Behrampur, the heyday of the Nawabs in India. With Naila Azad Nupur’s direction, and Sadaf Saaz working her behind-the-scenes magic as the producer, the production by Kaleidoscope projects lights on the prism of Wilde’s 1892 play to find their contemporary refractions and reflections in colonial India.

As I stand before the heap of fresh meat, my thoughts turn to the slain politician who was hacked to death

The UGC's decision to allow private universities to offer PhD programmes is a timely move.

A prestigious ranking system naming Dhaka University as the top university in Bangladesh makes us revisit that love-hate stance.

Moral policing by the West, when its own hypocrisy comes out through its actions controvening international law, one cannot help feeling bemused.

Dhaka is the world's rickshaw capital

The interplay between myths and scientific explanations of auroras illustrates human being’s capacity to find meaning in the natural world.

The utilitarian value of a university must reflect the institution's inherent value.

What people like Milton Samaddar and Tipu Kibria show us about society.