Many hours later as he faced the only open window in his room, Shafiq was to remember that distant afternoon when he took his first born to see the undulating sand dunes of the vast desert.

To call it ‘climate fiction’ would barely scratch the surface of what it really is. Richard Powers’ The Overstory—winner of this year’s

Rudolph Shitler and Joseph Phony yesterday shocked the world by joining hands in what has been dubbed by the media an “unholy

“Unlearning is a long process”. It’s doubtful to me that if we were to assemble an ensemble of artists, curators, gallerists, collectors

As far as grand finales go, Avengers: Endgame—the curtain call on this batch of the Marvel cinematic saga—gets a lot of things right.

If I say fantasy, what do you imagine? Castles, knights, dragons, and different fantasy ‘races’ (by which one means dwarves, elves and

Everything is going as is at the traffic signal beside Dhanmondi road number 32, when all of a sudden, the jhalmuriwalah hoists up his

Mizanur Rahman, long-time resident of Dhaka’s Jurain neighbourhood, hit the headlines last month with his bold and innovative

As India’s marathon elections enter their penultimate phase, the nation may be getting weary of the apparently never-ending

The female footballers were able to triumph over people’s, including many of their parents’, disapproval. The girls are shattering the

“Intimate acts of violence” was a good piece of writing on the writer’s horrific childhood experience of sexual harassment. Such

This magazine includes meaningful and at times, groundbreaking, articles by regular writers as well as refreshingly new ones. One such

Last month, Star Weekend, The Daily Star conducted an online survey to explore incidents of sexual harassment in the workplace.

We, as a people, are fond of referring to our glorious and revolutionary history; and yet, a crucial part of that revolutionary history, that of our labour movement(s), remains neglected, at least in mainstream discourses. This special May Day issue is an attempt, albeit a modest one, to highlight some of these omissions.

The post Rana Plaza period is often seen as a turning point for labour organising in the garment sector, given critical amendments to the labour law, implementation of the Accord and Alliance, as well as the increased scrutiny of international pressure from buyers and others.

Before the opening of the Second World Congress of the Communist International (July 19-August 7, 1920) [which met on the first day in Petrograd but subsequently in Moscow], Lenin prepared a draft thesis on the national and colonial question. M. N. Roy, a young Bengali attending his first international Communist gathering, eagerly responded to Lenin’s request for criticisms.

Alongside playing an active role in the independence movement, the Communist Party had begun working on organising labourers, farmers and other workers in then East Bengal since 1937-38. Here we are talking about the Party’s activities among the labourersin East Bengal.

Bangladesh is a workers’ land. More than seven million people are working here as manufacturing workers, nearly nine million in hotels and tea shops, more than four million in transport, two million in construction and more than 20 million women and men are actively engaged in agriculture.

When the famine reached a tipping point, broken bits of grains (khud) were allocated for the workers from the railway ration shop. It was a farce: railway workers, now in a new country, found themselves relegated to chickens.

The ready-made garment industry has been the dominant plank of Bangladesh’s development strategy for the last several decades.