The more BNP talks about reforms, the less convincing it sounds
24 March 2025, 02:00 AM
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Devils, heroes, or something in between?
14 February 2025, 02:00 AM
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Opinion / No more concessions for India on border killing or fencing
14 January 2025, 02:10 AM
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Opinion / BNP faces the weight of history and expectations
26 September 2024, 02:00 AM
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Opinion / The new age demands a re-reading of Bangabandhu
15 August 2024, 02:30 AM
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The nine lives of a corrupt public servant
13 July 2024, 04:00 AM
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Cow running amok in a shopping mall: It’s not a ‘moo’ point
14 June 2024, 10:30 AM
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The only budget I care about is one that reduces my bills
7 June 2024, 05:00 AM
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Citizen data server? More like a data supermarket
27 May 2024, 06:00 AM
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Why does a six-day holiday feel too good to be true?
10 April 2024, 05:00 AM
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A Lunch Date Gone Wrong
The apparent hospitality offered to BNP leaders Gayeshwar Chandra Roy and Amanullah Aman has caused reactions both funny and speculative.
3 August 2023, 13:00 PM
A nation off-guard: Why is dengue still a non-issue?
Can we respond to a public health crisis with the same urgency as the crisis over our electoral future?
23 July 2023, 14:00 PM
Books and bureaucrats are a dangerous mix
Few people are perhaps aware that there is a specific government institution responsible for overseeing non-government libraries.
28 June 2023, 05:00 AM
Sacred Corruption: The Unqualified and The Unscrupulous
Corruption in hajj management has come to the limelight after the publication of two reports
6 June 2023, 17:00 PM
Living in the land of dying rivers
What's happening to our rivers is not driven just by necessity, but also greed, a general disregard for the sanctity of life, and a reckless can-do-ism.
4 June 2023, 18:00 PM
Is there a Bangalee way to celebrate Pahela Baishakh?
The “Bangalee way” in the sense of a single, linear way is a myth at best, and nationalist propaganda at worst.
13 April 2023, 18:00 PM
In times of crisis, journalists must double down on facts
Facts, once the prerogative of the media, used to be sacred. Now, they are just fodder in an increasingly hostile war of narratives.
11 April 2023, 17:00 PM
The UN got it wrong. We’re not just sad, we’re happily so
We toy with the idea of change, but seek accommodation with the status quo.
2 April 2023, 13:00 PM
Living like the poor, paying like the rich
Inflation followed by greedflation followed by shrinkflation – is there no way out of this trap?
18 March 2023, 14:00 PM
Awami League wants us to love DSA. It’s too late now
While the manner in which the DSA is being defended is nothing new, the timing bears significance
30 January 2023, 18:00 PM
Survival of the Noisiest
Living with Dhaka’s noise pollution is a gruelling endurance test.
7 January 2023, 15:00 PM
Messi, Messier, Messiest
Drink it all in.
19 December 2022, 16:00 PM
Why politicians should study human rights
For human rights advocates, 2022 has been a catastrophic year.
9 December 2022, 18:30 PM
In the silos of bureaucrats, public interests are a trifle
To the uninitiated, the public interaction between our prime minister and state officials may seem curious at times.
14 November 2022, 15:00 PM
Is the EC fighting an unwinnable war?
There are a few possible explanations behind why the EC chose to suspend the Gaibandha-5 by-poll
15 October 2022, 17:33 PM
Who wants a piece of forest?
Plans to build a prison on forestland show that the country is in environmental free-fall
2 October 2022, 16:00 PM
Teachers aren’t under siege, but justice, civility and reason are
Here’s an image that will likely be seared into our memory forever: a teacher being forced to wear a garland of shoes around his neck.
2 July 2022, 18:00 PM
EC’s big nothing: From a crowning moment to a humbling experience
Now that the Cumilla City Corporation (CCC) election is over and everything there was to see and hear has been seen and heard, we need to address the elephant in the room.
21 June 2022, 18:00 PM
And the Nobel Prize for Violence Goes to…
No, silly, there is no such prize for violence. That’s just a conversation starter. After all, what better way to invoke the mighty Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) than with a nod to violence?
7 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Mega projects, mega dreams: But where is that omelette the government promised us?
The pitfall of measuring development based on macrodata is that it shows the big picture, but fails to account for development achieved, if at all, on a micro/personal level.
29 May 2022, 18:00 PM