Shamsad Mortuza

We laugh, but deep down, there is a hidden admiration and approval for such deception. Is there any connection between our folkloric fascination with trickery and our public endorsement of such behaviour by our leaders?

Disenchanted students are now demanding the creation of a “Dhaka Central University” comprising the seven colleges.

These martyred students achieved more in the years that they lived than many of us would do in decades.

For the cynics, the absence of any Bangladeshi university among the top 800 institutions recently ranked by Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THEWUR) 2025 is unacceptable.

"The 2024 uprising as an opportunity to return to the original desires of the deprived and persecuted masses of 1971."

Shakib has been at the heart of our national pride. He also has been someone who has hurt our feelings.

Violence against doctors is an issue that is neither unique to our country nor recent.

An institutionalised mass wedding will replace one form of social regulation with another.

The Washington Post recently speculated that Dr Yunus’s soft power may have indirectly influenced the UAE's decision to grant clemency.

How do you process the nationwide humiliation of teachers?

The students are once again at the forefront by reaching out to the victims of the flood that has inundated the country’s eastern region.

While talking to our students, it was obvious that many of them are experiencing severe stress.

Identity and ideology politics also played an essential role in brewing the Bangla Bashanta.

Reconciliation cannot occur without truth-telling, accountability, and a commitment to dismantling the structures of violence that perpetuate inequality and injustice.

The movement was no longer about quotas; it was about justice.

Seeing our PhD holders choose menial jobs over research and innovation highlights a flaw in our educational policy.

Polarisation, rife with mutual fear and rage, is on the rise. Something dark and sinister is occurring.

Why does it matter for us when a foreign individual is free after such a long time?

Begum’s Blunder is a clever adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan. The play transports the Victorian setting to the imaginary Behrampur, the heyday of the Nawabs in India. With Naila Azad Nupur’s direction, and Sadaf Saaz working her behind-the-scenes magic as the producer, the production by Kaleidoscope projects lights on the prism of Wilde’s 1892 play to find their contemporary refractions and reflections in colonial India.

As I stand before the heap of fresh meat, my thoughts turn to the slain politician who was hacked to death