Every time a Western consumer walks into the store and checks the manufacturing source, they don’t question the quality, but the ethical integrity of the product.

Business associations have been subjected to an endless game of masquerade where garlands, pictures and faces changed with the direction of the political wind.

Although we have the Graffiti Writing and Poster Sticking Control Act, 2012 to prevent visual pollution, nothing much has been done to implement it. Why, though?

Politics 101 today runs the risk of being solely authored by autocrats from all over the world.

Eating less and battling calories have been pains of the highest order. But little do we know that our minds have everything to do with our appetite.

Instead of better governance and practices yielding better returns, most US companies emphasise 'value' over 'values.'

The RMG sector needs to be united in being professional, go forward with value addition and, most of all, opt for strong industrial relations with labour.

Let the truth be known: no one has any idea what’s going to happen to Bangladeshi politics.

There’s a reason why, in the land that we live on, 217 journalists have reportedly been harassed, tortured and repressed in the last nine months and why one even died.

Among four South Asian nations, Sri Lanka performed the best in containing high inflation.

After all, with the atmosphere heating up, we will indeed need an army of well-built students to be ready as “kormis” of parties, in order to become our sacrificial goats at their altar.

How do the monks on ice live magically and produce wonders through detachment from worldly angst?

Truth recently decided to die an inglorious death as it got tired of watching rulers leading their nations with lies.

How do the lives of the underserved women change and who can potentially come forward and become a part of their story?

The apparent return to basics, the turn to healthier living, the leap to soliloquys have turned out to be beneficial. At least in theory, we all agree that the world needed a correction.

We are living in a time of self-doubt, of suspicion, of negation, and of regret.

When the sky isn’t looking clear anymore, to say you are watching the clouds go by with the hope of a better day is being cautiously optimistic.

I took a break from writing columns ever since I took over as the President of the Bangladesh Manufacturers and Exporters Association.

Over 8,000 km away, everything looks different. The skies, the sunrise, the people and of course, trade. In Paris, the three-day Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector,

I always need a clean sheet to write on. I always prefer the backside of a calendar month to detail projects.