Reflections / Goatfather: A caprine comedy
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Remember that story of an overpriced goat and its mysterious buyer?
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For those who left but never departed: Nazrul’s ‘Ami chirotore dure chole jabo’
24 May 2026, 20:30 PM
Through Nazrul’s words and Firoza Begum’s voice, farewell becomes something more unsettling: a promise never to disappear
24 May 2026, 20:30 PM
‘Cha khaben?’: The question that slows the world down
21 May 2026, 19:42 PM
On World Tea Day today, a reflection on how the simple offer continues to turn tea into a ritual of pause, warmth and human connection
21 May 2026, 19:42 PM
Reaction / Murders we write
19 May 2026, 22:33 PM
What happens when murder is no longer an exception to be solved, but a social erosion to be recorded?
19 May 2026, 22:33 PM
Reflection / The children Mother’s Day leaves behind
10 May 2026, 19:30 PM
For some children, love arrives as control, affection as currency and home as a place of survival
10 May 2026, 19:30 PM
Do you know your coffee?
8 May 2026, 18:00 PM
A quiet coffee revolution is underway in Bangladesh
8 May 2026, 18:00 PM
Symphony No. 9: The sound Beethoven could no longer hear, but the world still can't forget
7 May 2026, 19:14 PM
Deaf, isolated and tormented, Beethoven created a work more than two centuries ago that still speaks with startling urgency
7 May 2026, 19:14 PM
Reflection / What is compartmentalisation in a world full of noise?
4 May 2026, 20:29 PM
It is not indifference, but the quiet discipline of deciding what the mind can carry and what must wait
4 May 2026, 20:29 PM
‘Just a question of time’: Trump revives Cuba confrontation after Iran attack
US and Cuba have been entangled in antagonism since the mid-20th century
6 March 2026, 18:30 PM
The democracy of iftar’s aroma
In cities, towns and villages alike, the scents of frying, citrus and spice stitch together the shared anticipation of iftar
5 March 2026, 18:55 PM
Middle East conflict now brings hot waters to distant shores
Sends shockwaves to Indian Ocean shipping lanes
5 March 2026, 13:13 PM
An ancient superpower defying today’s hegemon
Ancient statecraft, revolutionary ideology and strategic geography converge as Iran challenges contemporary global dominance on its own terms
4 March 2026, 18:30 PM
When Nosferatu came out of the shadows
The movie premiered on this day over 100 years ago and introduced audiences to soundless horror
4 March 2026, 15:58 PM
Has the country become a horror story?
The killing of a seven-year-old in Sitakunda is not an isolated incident
3 March 2026, 20:23 PM
The Empire and the performance of moral high ground
How the US wages war, removes leaders, and redraws nations -- all while insisting on its ethical supremacy
2 March 2026, 21:29 PM
First rain over a fasting Dhaka
First shower this year offers a weary city a moment of mercy
2 March 2026, 20:05 PM
How Persia became Iran
Echoes of an empire in a time of fire
1 March 2026, 21:01 PM
Why are Pakistan and Afghanistan at war now?
Airstrikes, retaliation and the TTP factor expose the collapse of a once-calculated relationship between Islamabad and the Taliban
27 February 2026, 19:15 PM
John Steinbeck and the art of bearing witness
At the heart of Steinbeck's literary oeuvre lies a profound empathy for the disenfranchised
27 February 2026, 18:00 PM
In Dhaka, spring and pages bloom together
Amid mango blossoms and mild breezes, Ekushey Boi Mela reaffirms the permanence of paper in an age of fleeting screens
26 February 2026, 18:30 PM
Khrushchev’s Secret Speech: The 4 hours that shattered Stalin’s empire
The consequences were not merely political but metaphysical
25 February 2026, 19:08 PM
Cultural afterglow of Breakfast at Tiffany's
Lily Collins to portray Hepburn in a film about the making of 'Breakfast at Tiffany’s', reopening a cultural conversation about Holly Golightly
24 February 2026, 20:47 PM
A timeline of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Global consequences of a continental war
24 February 2026, 19:10 PM
Who was El Mencho? How one man’s death led to US and Canada issuing travel warnings
Understanding the power and reach of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
23 February 2026, 19:03 PM
The man behind 'Inquilab Zindabad'
How Hasrat Mohani gave the subcontinent its most enduring protest slogan, and also wrote one of the most tender ghazals
22 February 2026, 19:04 PM
Jana Aranya: A cinematic take on the quiet commerce of conscience and compromise
50 years on, the last among Satyajit Ray's Calcutta Trilogy remains relevant
20 February 2026, 17:28 PM
Goodbye to the middleman of truth
Mani Shankar Mukherjee passes away
20 February 2026, 16:58 PM
'Ciao ragazzi': Farewell to Mariano Rubinacci
He elevated tailoring from manufacture to meaning
19 February 2026, 17:27 PM