BANGLADESH RMG SECTOR / A story of expansion, crisis and missed opportunities
26 September 2024, 04:00 AM
KNOT SO TRUE
Transitions, coins, and lenses
29 August 2024, 02:00 AM
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My powerless poster walk
26 January 2024, 01:00 AM
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Opinion / Dissolve the people, elect a new one?
11 January 2024, 02:00 AM
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Resolutions for 2024
28 December 2023, 04:00 AM
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What do they want from Bangladesh?
13 December 2023, 01:00 AM
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RMG Protests / A tale of the Green versus the Red
16 November 2023, 02:00 AM
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Politics of Fire
8 November 2023, 04:00 AM
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Free pages, free lenses
25 October 2023, 01:00 AM
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Life after #GotaGoHome
11 October 2023, 03:00 AM
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Leaks and Lessons
Too many leaks are happening these days. White House staffers have been leaking information.
23 May 2017, 18:00 PM
“Providing” for the “Protected”
I am so glad that children of powerful people are not being able to get away with rape.”
9 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Circle of Trust
Very often, we walk away from our losses and just expect to recover. Well, we don't. Memories last forever, especially if they are torturous in nature and form. The best way is to work around the pain and address it the way we ought to.
25 April 2017, 18:00 PM
It's time to work together
The tale of the three million female workers in the readymade garment industry is an unbeatable narrative of toil and survival.
28 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Someone else's babies
There was a time when the film industry in the subcontinent used Indo-Pak plots to create pre-film-release-tension-teasers to attract more audience.
21 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Confessions of a feminist
It's time to start a #SheForShe movement. Unless women just stop expecting men to help them realign their statuses, then victory for women will always remain elusive. The only way is to help each other out, increase mentorship programmes and impact each other's lives.
7 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Era of dialogue
We are proud. They want laptops to work on. This is what Sathy and Rokeya have written to me. Both are now studying at the Asian University for Women situated in Chittagong and are having the time of their lives.
21 February 2017, 18:00 PM
The Virtual Vogue
By habit, I shake the morning newspapers violently every morning. This way, I shake redundance off the pages.
7 February 2017, 18:00 PM
The alternative road to dissent
Luckily we don't live in the United States of America. Luckily we don't have to take to the streets to protest the executive orders of the president.
31 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Bureaucracy cannot yield to business
Three hundred and sixty nine billion people, who constitute the poorest 50 percent own USD 426 billion.
17 January 2017, 18:00 PM
The upside down era
This year, many of us read about 'listening hairbrushes' taking control of our split ends, toothbrushes filming the inside of our mouths, beds reacting to a person's sleeping position, cars learning from the brains of drivers, like the Concept-i car by Toyota, which, with an advanced artificial intelligence system, can act as a faithful dog or a pining boyfriend.
10 January 2017, 18:00 PM
The year that was for us
1 and 9 have always been the most significant numbers in my life. Most of what has happened to me (save one) has always taken place on dates that add to either 1 or 9.
27 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Half-truths and agendas
I get apprehensive every time I discover a questionnaire on my table. Each questionnaire seems to be arriving with a specific agenda.
15 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Wake up, Mrs. Bangladesh
I saw a butterfly following me around. Usually, butterflies mean either death or marriage in the family. Every time, I see one, I shudder in fear and uncertainty.
29 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water
The BGMEA building has been termed a "cancer". Today, it is almost symbolic to bring the BGMEA building down.
15 November 2016, 18:00 PM
The extra pair of eyes
Strangely, we are not where we used to be anymore. Students who used to steer movements against tyranny have themselves become tyrants.
1 November 2016, 18:00 PM
The Next Hope
A car hit one of the workers working in our house this morning. He was cleaning the wall and the car smashed his bones.
18 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Blood versus Boom
What has actually gone wrong in the South Asian landscape? If one singles Pakistan out in this South Asian equation, one then naturally wonders, why the leaders of a single country that is projected to take off as the next investment friendly area, be unwise to jeopardise regional integration that could turn South Asia to record the highest GDP growth by 2030?
11 October 2016, 18:00 PM
The unstoppable
Bangladesh has not become the second largest exporter of apparel because of media spotlight. Bad press affects us, but does not kill us, as we know how to rise from the ashes. Negative publicity may dampen, but does not annihilate us as we are far stronger than expected.
27 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Rivers of blood
In our lives, we try and look for social proofs and replicate other events, other practices, other lives, et al. We also try and promote ourselves, our lives, our products with valuable virility. Most of us use social media to be viral. But being viral with responsibility is a difficult task and being responsible while reporting to the public is even more challenging.
20 September 2016, 18:00 PM