“The reasons birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” — J.M.Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright

There's a popular saying among different species that hold very opposite meanings: 'When it rains, it pours and when it pours it floods.'

While the global media is traumatised by an impending nuclear war and a lunatic running the most powerful country in the planet, the journalists of Bangladesh have declared a week-long holiday in what can only be called a shocking turn of events.

May Day 2017

For the first time in history, Bangladesh is experiencing a mass movement to save a forest – the largest mangrove in the world.

My father taught us to wear our Bengaliness with pride. It was impressed upon us that we, by being born Bengali, had inherited a rich intellectual and artistic tradition.

Sylvia Plath indeed died memorably as foreshadowed in a poem written in the final months of her life.

We begin at a time after the battle of Karbala, where the traitor Simar is carrying Hazrat Hossain's disembodied head to Damascus in the hopes of getting a sizeable bounty.

Pristine, paper white walls. Monorail lightings fixed on the ceiling. And reverent silence.

As far as the eye can see acres upon acres of lush green corn plantations sway in the breeze. A cluster of houses and kitchens are shaded by banana and eucalyptus trees.

“I might not come back. I'm afraid. You had to flee from one place to another out of fear of being slaughtered by the extremists. If something like that happens again, I don't have the strength or ability to do things like you.”

What is in the eggs you eat? On April 9, the Supreme Court looked for the answer to this question and did not like what they found.

When the whole city is caught up in the debate of whether local or sitting service is more conducive to commuters...

“What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.” — Barbara De Angelis, American author

Hatirjheel project has been a very popular recreational place for Dhakaites. There are very few places in Dhaka city where people can

When I read the article titled “Is this Our City?” I was really shocked because even I never thought about how a person with disability...

Rana Plaza. The murder scene of 1,129 Bangladeshi workers, and burial ground of numerous “missing”. A national shame, an international spectacle.

The Rana Plaza collapse wasn't just the worst mass fatality disaster in the history of the garment industry; it was the worst mass fatality disaster in the history of all manufacturing.

I have known the site of Rana Plaza in Savar for almost four decades now. I have to cross Savar to and from the Jahangirnagar campus

There is an age-old proverb, “Out of sight out of mind”. This, I fear, is what is happening to the 1,134 workers who died in Rana Plaza, and the thousands who have been injured and are barely surviving.