Mahfuz Anam

One of the accusations made against The Daily Star and its editor in parliament last Sunday was that we had encouraged the army's involvement in politics. We want to state categorically that we never stood in support of anything but democracy.

Yesterday, seven honourable members of parliament demanded my trial for "treason" for publishing reports that they claimed to have led to Sheikh Hasina's internment. We fundamentally reject this link as it is not based on facts.

After months of planning, weeks of dummy runs, the paper was finally rolling out of the press on the night of 13th January, 1991.

One of Bangladesh's many tragedies was the near reversal, within three and a half years of our birth as a country, of the gains of our Liberation War and the coming to power, later, of people who not only opposed the birth of Bangladesh but actively participated in the genocide and crimes against humanity that was the hallmark of the Pakistani forces and their Bengali collaborators.

Three recent elections, federal in Canada, state level in Bihar and national in Myanmar, have once again showed us the might of the “Peoples' Will” and what it can achieve. Each of these elections had some special significance with the one in Bihar and the last one in Myanmar having unparalleled historic significance. These elections reminded us that we had some internationally praised and historically significant elections of our own and made us wonder when we would have similar elections in Bangladesh again?

The PM blames Khaleda, the BNP chief blames Hasina, the killers continue to kill, the victims' families live in fear, people remain confused and angry, friends of Bangladesh watch in disbelief and the smile of our enemies grow wider.

No murder is acceptable, and if the victim is an innocent foreigner who had come to Bangladesh to serve a good cause, it becomes even more reprehensible. When we think about how randomly Cesare Tavella was killed and how his death relates to nothing that he had done, said, or written, when we see that he had not instigated others to do

The killers are doing their work. Are we doing ours? Need we answer?

This time, too, there is nothing on Teesta, yet we have agreed on all forms of transit in the name of connectivity.

On June 1, Indian Nobel Peace Laureate and child rights activist, Kailash Satyarthi sat down for an exclusive interview with Mahfuz Anam, Editor of The Daily Star.

We are all familiar with the mathematical formulation that 0+0+0= 0. Well, not so, says Prof Yunus.

The AL MP from Fenchuganj, Sylhet, Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury, in a speech on May 9, in his constituency, termed Professor Zafar Iqbal as “One hundred thousand percent idiot”.

Three conclusions can be drawn from the just concluded city polls in Dhaka and Chittagong:

We have known of many deaths over many years. In fact, we are running the risk of becoming desensitised about it all as if unnatural

Every struggle for freedom and every instance of independence of a country usually comes at a huge cost. We are among those

Today we celebrate this paper's 24 years of service to the people of Bangladesh through “Journalism without Fear or Favour” based on

HAVE any of our politicians been listening to Arvind Kejriwal's speeches, especially the one after he took oath as the chief minister of the Indian capital? I suppose not. To be fair, neither did the Indian politicians before his magnificent victory in the latest Delhi Assembly polls. If they had, they may not have met the debacle that they did.

Ekushey February provides a soul-stirring occasion to reflect on the long road we have travelled since some of our brave young men died in defence of the mother tongue in 1952. On the one hand, we go back in time to recreate within our collective consciousness the