Selfies were born when people found no one to take their photo. Again, no one among family and friends wanted to be left out, and so the crowding into the frame began.

This is your Chief, whatever you meant by that. Can you hear me?

You do not necessarily have to be an Awami League aficionado to appreciate that the two mayors of Dhaka City, albeit split along

It will perhaps be beyond the imagination of a couple today that the year-old baby they are cuddling so fondly as their keeps-forever heart and soul...

It happens occasionally, during busy hours particularly, that even before you can get off the rickshaw, mama has begun negotiating with his next customer...

May Day 1: Our most common understanding of May 1 being a holiday is that it represents a movement for the establishment of the rights of workers.

A city can become famous for one or more reasons; for instance, Dhaka is famous for its myriad of masjids, although some may prefer tagging traffic jams or 'relieving' denizens standing against a wall, looking smilingly towards the sky every now and then.

We have deeply eroded our human qualities, since when I cannot quite remember, although from a partisan point of view there will be as many opinions as there are political shades, not so much about the societal abrasion as much about the occasion of social descent.

It is common knowledge that most ministers find their electoral promises untenable. This is why: they guarantee the unattainable. But I am beginning my subtle campaign with a pledge to fulfil some of the more simple undertakings.

He smiles say it all, not on our faces. The desire of the Indians to beat us (in cricket), their eagerness to prove a point after losing the

One of my better lessons of life has been the understanding, and with good reason that, that if someone is upset with you, shows

A SMS notification at two in the dead of the night would obviously, you think, be a text message of utmost importance, probably (pray

It is important to remember that every person's job is important to that person and to that person's near and dear ones. No one sweats to sell peanuts on the pavement for entertainment.

Salaam from the people, yes people, whom you almost ran over, whom you shoved off the footpath, beeped to deafness and pushed from behind as they sat on rickshaws.

The meaning of the word bannijjo is nowhere more profound than at the annual fair that has returned habitually to the Sher-e-Bangla

The valiant role of police in general in our War of Liberation, the distinctive valour with which some of them fought for the cause of our

Since long I have been intrigued by Desmond Morris's Manwatching (1977), admittedly one of the few books that I have gone through,

There is no country in the world that gives away more than 33 crore books on New Year's Day, and that too for free, not even in the