The streets of Dhaka, and really, the entire country, exist in a kind of violence-ignorance dichotomy. We are ready at a moment's notice, it seems, to engage in any kind of mass public beating, regardless of what the victim's sins may have been. At the same time,

Foad Nasser Babu is a living legend where Bangladeshi music is concerned. One of the original members of the band Feedback, Foad

The article titled 'The Saga of a Self-destructive Society' (published on March 11, 2016) is a wake-up call and conscience-arousing

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This photograph was taken in the Amazon when the butterflies flocked onto the head of this Yellow-spotted River Turtle to drink its

Last week was a hectic one. With the Bangladesh Bank fiasco, a school boy, whose name starts with an 'X', going berserk on social

Mental health is something that we seldom talk about. We don't see it, we can't touch it, we don't see any blood; how is it that mental

“What is the main purpose of your life?” was the most frequently asked question throughout my two and a half month journey during

“I grew up in a place where we had more trees than houses, more birds than people and more ponds than tanks! Each pond would

The 68-year-old specialist physician, Dr MB Zaman is a pioneer in the field of Histopathology and Cytopathology – used for the

I have a five year old daughter who loves to play outside and I always let her go. Luckily we have a park right next to the front gate,

Born in Sunamganj, Sylhet division on 1st September, 1918, General Muahammad Ataul Gani Osmani was the commander in chief of

Kaustubh Adhikari's name might not be familiar to many of us. But if you Google his name, you will find this 30- year-old Indian

You can literally die for saying mundane things these days. But since man insists on his freedom of speech, they must find a way to negotiate the tricky controversial waters of expression.

The number of crocodile population remaining in the rivers and canals of the Sundarbans, according to a survey jointly conducted by Bangladesh

On the 2nd of March, Bangladesh beat Pakistan in the semi-finals of the recently concluded Asia Cup. It prompted an outpouring of

It was just another afternoon for Nusrat and Alvi. After a busy day at school and then spending hours with their tutor, they wanted to

The spotlight article titled "Small Victories" (published March 4, 2015) brought up an important issue which normally does not get

The name Maqsoodul Haque, a writer and singer, is synonymous to the revolution of the 50s, the 70s and mostly the 90s. His poetry

“God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you