Amitava Kar

How can the attitude of people be changed? Well, Japan did it thorough a productivity movement back in 1955 with three guiding principles: job security and expansion of employment, cooperation of labour and management through joint consultation, and fair distribution of the fruits of productivity.

In an email interview, Dr Geof Wood shares with Amitava Kar of The Daily Star why poverty and inequality persist despite all the fuss. Emeritus Professor of International Development at the University of Bath, Dr Wood is an internationally renowned development anthropologist and author of several books and numerous journal articles, with a regional focus on South Asia. On March 9, he presented a seminar titled “The Security of Agency: Towards a Sociology of Poverty” at Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS). Here is a condensed version of the interview.

Bob Dylan's timeless 1964 song Only a Pawn in Their Game about the assassination of Medgar Evers, the black civil

The Grand Old Party does not know how to stop Trump and it is their fault. Throughout history it's a party that has won elections mostly on anti-government rhetoric.

If we peel back the layers of the most recent crimes such as the killing of children and the disturbing prevalence of violence against women...

German painters are, therefore, more likely to paint death as a man while their Russian counterparts, as a woman.

ALL bets are off - by winning New Hampshire's 2016 Democratic presidential primary, Bernie Sanders has done what was once

One of the most vulnerabl institutions in the world today is the free press and one of the most expendable people are the journalists.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel seemed all set to regain control of Germany's polarising debate over refugees. In her New Year's Eve address...

Diaspora helps foster ideas. An increasing number returns home with skills, contacts and an understanding of how things could be done better. Expatriate Bangladeshis want to do more. Is the country doing enough to welcome them?

Let's face it, training is not the first thing people think of doing when they have some free time, no matter how easy it is to access...

The trouble with technological evolution is that it is driven by what we are led to think we want as opposed to what is adaptive.

Empathy, like all virtues, must have some application to the future. If we do not deeply feel the deaths we are apparently powerless to prevent, how would we be alert to the deaths we might put an end to?

While paying lip-service to a two-state solution—agreed upon in principle by the government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority in

There was a time when public discussion was awash in meta-questions like: What is our purpose? What is right and what is wrong?

In an email interview with The Daily Star, Subir Chowdhury discusses with Amitava Kar what quality really means, his latest philosophy and upcoming books. Born in Chittagong, Chowdhury is one of the world's leading experts in Quality Management and author of 13 books, including international bestsellers The Power of Six Sigma and The Ice Cream Maker. He was recently appointed an Adviser to the World Bank President Leadership Council.

India's religious pluralism is looking less secure every day. It's a turning point for India, a country that has taken pride in being a secular democracy where citizens...

Plenty of things need to happen in the world and in this country, like putting a stop to invading countries for oil, reducing inequality and establishing the rule of law. Can poetry make that happen?

Reflecting on the achievements of Bangladesh, Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF's country representative discusses how much work is ahead of us in the areas of education and health.

Since the 14th century, the world has come to the Vatican, the walled, city-state within Rome, and never the other way around. That's