The little monarch of Madhabkunda
17 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Unheard Voices
The lost soul of Jatra
17 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Unheard Voices
The Tangail saree’s global fame and the weavers we forget
10 January 2026, 00:00 AM
One health, one future: The critical role of Bangladesh’s veterinarians
10 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Why coastal communities don’t get enough milk and vegetables
2 January 2026, 18:00 PM
Unheard Voices
We don’t need zoos, only safe places for wild animals
2 January 2026, 18:00 PM
Unheard Voices
How many more deaths before mob violence is stopped?
26 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Unheard Voices
Char Haats: The unequal economics of the chars
26 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Unheard Voices
Digging deeper into Barind’s water crisis
19 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Unheard Voices
A grieving street dog and reflections on environmental humanities
19 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Unheard Voices
The lost soul of Jatra
What was once an art of resistance has become a struggle for survival.
17 January 2026, 00:00 AM
The little monarch of Madhabkunda
Although globally listed as Least Concern, national mapping can be misleading.
17 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Why coastal communities don’t get enough milk and vegetables
The Ashtomashi Badh, or eight-month embankment, historically shaped the southwest coast of Bangladesh into an ek fosholer desh—a single-crop landscape—where peasants cultivated rice once a year using fresh water.
2 January 2026, 18:00 PM
We don’t need zoos, only safe places for wild animals
At the beginning of December, a lioness named Daisy slipped out of her cage at Mirpur National Zoo for a few hours, sparking panic and a rushed evacuation.
2 January 2026, 18:00 PM
How many more deaths before mob violence is stopped?
But beneath the surface of religious fervour lay a more calculated motive.
26 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Char Haats: The unequal economics of the chars
For char residents, this unequal exchange is not new.
26 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Digging deeper into Barind’s water crisis
Farmers speak from lived experience, and their stories reveal the uneven spread of crisis across the region.
19 December 2025, 18:00 PM
A grieving street dog and reflections on environmental humanities
This human-made tragedy, however, was partially remedied by "humans" themselves.
19 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Songs of the soul: Baul Binoy Sutradhar’s inner world
Born in 1954 in Paikpara Union under Chunarughat Upazila of Habiganj district, Binoy was the son of a local farmer, Sudhir Chandra Sutradhar, and Snehalata Sutradhar. Before he was even seven, he lost his father, a loss that cast the family into deep hardship.
12 December 2025, 18:00 PM
What the new labour ordinance means for workers
The Daily Star (TDS): How do you assess the Labour Ordinance 2025?
12 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Untold stories of young Bangladeshi migrants in France
Around 15 years ago, a new phenomenon emerged: the arrival in France of very young people
5 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Stories from the hanging village
The hungry river is coming towards us. Where will we go now?
5 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Faith, art, and livelihood in patachitra
Patachitra is considered one of the oldest Bengali forms of audio-visual storytelling.
28 November 2025, 18:00 PM
We don’t need more data - we need to understand it
The question is no longer about data scarcity, but about data governance: who holds it, who uses it, and to what end.
28 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Dhaka’s forgotten girls: Living without safety, identity or rights
One of the less visible but most damaging barriers is the absence of legal identity.
21 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Why is secondary education becoming unaffordable?
The soaring costs are turning secondary education into a secondary priority, overshadowed by the daily struggle for survival.
21 November 2025, 18:00 PM
The hands that clean, the Harijans we refuse to see
Our stomachs often remain empty—not because we do not work hard, but because life is unfair
14 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Who owns Dhaka’s streets?
The informal economy is not a leftover of "under-development" but continues to operate across advanced societies.
14 November 2025, 18:00 PM
RMG’s automation and green growth have a gender problem— Don’t ignore it
One often overlooked dimension of this transition is the interplay between automation, decent work, and the care economy.
7 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Why Bangladesh still believes teachers should be poor
Teachers' demands today are so modest that they almost reflect their learned helplessness.
7 November 2025, 18:00 PM