‘Like a morning after a nuclear attack’
24 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Weekend Read
Fear of sexual harassment triggering child marriage: survey
20 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh
For the Love of Tea
7 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Star Literature
Court Corner / SC forms committee against sexual harassment
4 November 2021, 18:00 PM
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
UK-listed cybersecurity firm Avast in merger talks with NortonLifeLock
15 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Organisation News
How new autocrats curb press freedom
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
(Uncertain) Future of Journalism in Bangladesh
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
“The space for in-depth critical journalism is shrinking"
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
“Predisposed journalism can never grow and sustain”
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
Putting the “news” in our news feeds
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
A relic at mercy of the present
I have thought of the road to Dewanbari ever since I took on the herculean (to me) task of writing about it. I imagined the place when
27 June 2019, 18:00 PM
CONTINENTAL DRIFTER: SOLO TRAVELLER
Today, sitting on my balcony in Dhaka, with my face to the south looking down at the green neighbourhood park, I look back on my
27 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Finding relief in skating
In Dhaka’s Korail slum, futures are made and unmade. It is bloated with vulnerabilities. Lack of basic living conditions, sudden fires,
27 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Informal Sector Early Experiences of Work
“Mariam, get up!” comes a scream from the other side of the room. Mariam’s eyes open and she is forced back to reality. The sweet
27 June 2019, 18:00 PM
The disabled need more than an allowance
Last week, a post did the rounds on social media, featuring a visually impaired couple who were looking for a job to support their
20 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Justice plagued by delays
In our country, crime rates are high and some get lots of media attention. But the way the overall system works starting from the crime
20 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Death is different for a daughter
This is what I fear. That a day will come when having just two daughters in the house won’t be enough. That the daughters who stayed by
20 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Contaminated food
Nowadays, I am afraid to buy most kinds of food items in Bangladesh. Contamination of fruits and vegetables is widely prevalent and
20 June 2019, 18:00 PM
District Budget: A forgotten promise?
When Ahad Ali, a landless farmer in Bharaura village of Moulvibazar’s Srimangal upazila, received Tk 500 from Srimangal municipality
20 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Martians, coconuts and changing careers with the 2019-20 Bangladesh Budget
You would think that a fortune teller would see it coming. But even they were surprised by the unpredictability of the ups and downs
20 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Travels with the ghost of childhood
Nauroze could recall each strange detail about that summer that led to monsoon with the greatest clarity. She was a child invested in
20 June 2019, 18:00 PM
HBO’s Chernobyl: Flashback, premonition, or forewarning?
Directed by Johan Renck and written by Craig Mazin, HBO’s five-part miniseries aired earlier this month takes us back to the worst
20 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Black Mirror’s “Miley Cyrus episode” : A better ending to Hannah Montana?
Any form of television or literature targeted towards female young adults have a few tried and tested tropes—protagonist gets a
20 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Trump’s Evidence About Iran is “Dodgy” at Best
The crackpot president of the United States of America has so snarled up the gangplank to truth these past 29 months that no matter
20 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Do the masses really vote for fascism?
The elections are over, and India has spoken. Or so I hear. Modi will go on to rule for five more years, the country will systematically
20 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Wringing out the penny-pinchers
One thing is apparent from the budget promises of this year—the “tide of development” that the country seems to be surfing on will
20 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Quantifying gender in the national budget
By now it has been established that women have less access to opportunities for social, economic and political advancement. National
20 June 2019, 18:00 PM
The high price for a foreign degree
Samia* returned to Bangladesh two years ago, after a harrowing experience in the UK where she went for higher education.
13 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Islamophobia is the New Black
Burmese State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi’s recent partnering with Hungarian PM Viktor Orban appears at first blush to be the
13 June 2019, 18:00 PM
The man behind the bell
Last week, a peon, who was also a night guard, of Poradanga Government Primary School of Kulotia Union of Monirampur upazila,
13 June 2019, 18:00 PM