Zarina Nahar Kabir

As soon as people find out who my mother is, I am invariably faced with the statement “Surely, being Siddiqua Kabir's daughter you must be an excellent cook!” My standard response is: “Well, I take after my father rather than my mother.”

Motivational interviewing (MI) is about focused conversations with a person, venturing to help her into making a lifestyle change. It is a tool of empowerment that helps a person through structured conversations, helping her to actively talk herself into making a change, rather than only reflect on it.

If systemic discipline can be introduced, individuals will have no other option but to follow the rules, just as we do the moment we step out of Bangladesh and into countries that is governed by actual rules.

A columnist in The Daily Star recently gave an apt description of many like me who are “living one life in two countries”. 'We' are those

To mark the International Women's Day, social networks over the last few days have been inundated with personal tributes to wives,