It was my pleasure to know about your deep relationship with Bangla, our glorious mother tongue. It's definitely a matter of pride and the part and parcel of our everyday life.

More and more people are getting injured, burnt and dying due to cylinder blasts over the last couple of years.

From the recurring incidents it seems like human life is very cheap in our country—either you get crushed under wheels or get burnt by fire no end to tragedy, yet no justice and little compensation.

Sexual violence against women is often justified by putting blame on women. If a woman gets sexually assaulted, the whole of society tends to point fingers at the woman.

A sleeping woman narrowly escapes a snake bite in her Bangkok home.

Every year, young authors appear with new concepts inside colourful covers at the Ekushey Boi Mela.

The article on the works of Shahriar Kabir was delightful. I myself got my first SK book as a birthday gift and read it repeatedly. The story set in a foreign land captivated me.

Such horrific tragic incidents take place in our country on a regular basis but the question is how much are we learning from such incidents?

When UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid announced the decision to prevent Shamima Begum from returning to the UK, many were thrilled—including Bangladeshis.

On Wednesday last week, a busy street in Chawkbazar in Bangladesh's oldest neighbourhood burst into flames, killing at least 67 people and injuring many.

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain." - Henry David Thoreau

An Australian comedian who impersonates North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says authorities were deporting him from Vietnam, some 24 hours before the real Kim was due to arrive for a summit with US President Donald Trump.

A T-shirt bearing the face of one of the world's most infamous dictators would normally be a tough sell, one would think.

There are numerous diagnostic centers that have been established in the country which use the latest lab equipment and employ lab technicians.

The story "Pulling the weight of the world" in Star Weekend tells us what we all know—once a rickshaw puller, always a rickshaw puller.

I have been using an app for the last couple of months to have a conversation in English with people living abroad.

Recently, border killings have been on the rise by the BSF while from our side, BGB has done little to condemn such acts. India and Bangladesh share one of the most porous borders, with

The books we read as children have a much stronger influence on us than the ones we read as adults. When I was little, my only goal was to finish one book and get started on the next.

Growing up schooled in an English medium curriculum can bring with it a certain disconnect with the Bengali language. Or at least it did for me.

About five years ago, I had a long talk with Sultan about several political events relating to the 1952 language movement, which I had taped. Mohammed Sultan was one of the pioneers of the movement and the founder of 'Puthipotro' which was the first progressive press in the country.This conversation was first published in 'Bichitra'.