Badruddin Umar: A tribute to a genuine scholar and committed activist
Umar is and will be remembered today as a committed and uncompromising icon of the left.
13 September 2025, 03:00 AM
Challenges in building a reformed political order / Pathways to a new political order
The prospects for change are not without hope in Bangladesh.
24 April 2025, 02:00 AM
Challenges in building a reformed political order / Pathways to the downfall of a regime
The erosion in the credibility of the Sheikh Hasina regime did not begin in July 2024.
23 April 2025, 02:00 AM
Anisur Rahman: Farewell to a fellow traveler
Anisur Rahman and I have traveled together across the troubled landscape of Bangladesh’s history over many years. We first came together in October 1957, when we were recruited as teachers by Professor M.N. Huda, then the Chairman of the Economics Department at Dhaka University (DU).
9 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Remembering Sir Fazle Hasan Abed: A life fulfilled
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was a visionary leader and a social entrepreneur.
20 December 2024, 02:10 AM
Key questions for designing and implementing reforms
What is the process through which reforms will be enacted and who will execute the reforms?
14 November 2024, 02:00 AM
For whom the bell tolls?
The case of Prof Yunus is symptomatic of the erosion in the credibility of our institutions.
19 January 2024, 07:09 AM
Nurul Islam: Celebrating the life of a freedom fighter
Nurul’s unique quality as a professional economist originated in the common sense and pragmatism which influenced his great faith in empirical work.
14 May 2023, 17:00 PM
Badruddin Umar: A tribute to a genuine scholar and committed activist
Umar is and will be remembered today as a committed and uncompromising icon of the left.
13 September 2025, 03:00 AM
Pathways to a new political order
The prospects for change are not without hope in Bangladesh.
24 April 2025, 02:00 AM
Pathways to the downfall of a regime
The erosion in the credibility of the Sheikh Hasina regime did not begin in July 2024.
23 April 2025, 02:00 AM
Anisur Rahman: Farewell to a fellow traveler
Anisur Rahman and I have traveled together across the troubled landscape of Bangladesh’s history over many years. We first came together in October 1957, when we were recruited as teachers by Professor M.N. Huda, then the Chairman of the Economics Department at Dhaka University (DU).
9 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Remembering Sir Fazle Hasan Abed: A life fulfilled
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed was a visionary leader and a social entrepreneur.
20 December 2024, 02:10 AM
Key questions for designing and implementing reforms
What is the process through which reforms will be enacted and who will execute the reforms?
14 November 2024, 02:00 AM
For whom the bell tolls?
The case of Prof Yunus is symptomatic of the erosion in the credibility of our institutions.
19 January 2024, 07:09 AM
Nurul Islam: Celebrating the life of a freedom fighter
Nurul’s unique quality as a professional economist originated in the common sense and pragmatism which influenced his great faith in empirical work.
14 May 2023, 17:00 PM
Zafrullah: Tribute to a freedom fighter and revolutionary
Zafrullah believed that incremental change was not enough and that the social order itself needed to be changed.
21 April 2023, 02:00 AM
Honouring an Institution
Ahmadul Kabir (Monu) had the stature and maturity to appreciate that politics was not a profession but a vocation.
3 February 2023, 02:00 AM
50 years of Bangladesh: The Journey towards Bangabandhu’s Sonar Bangla
The commemoration of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary, and the celebrations centred around Bangladesh’s 50 years as an independent nation state, will conclude at the end of the calendar year 2021.
15 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Bangabandhu’s vision for a just society: promises kept and promises to keep
The commemoration of the Bangabandhu centenary year and the celebrations centred around Bangladesh’s fifty years as an independent nation state will be reaching their conclusion at the end of the calendar year, 2021.
6 December 2021, 12:58 PM
A vision for Dhaka University in the 21st century
Dhaka University was born out of a struggle by the people of eastern Bengal for asserting their regional identity. It reached its apotheosis through its vanguard role in the struggle for Bangladesh’s nationhood. It was my privilege as a teacher in Dhaka University from 1957 to 1971 to be a part of this struggle.
21 January 2021, 18:10 PM
Good night, sweet prince
The passing of Anisuzzaman has taken from our midst one more close friend and comrade from the generation which participated in the struggle for national liberation and held steadfast to its values.
22 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed: A tribute to an innovator and implementer
I had my first encounter with Sir Fazle Hasan Abed in 1971 in Oxford. Abed called to inform me on the efforts by him and his group in London in support of Bangladesh’s liberation struggle.
2 January 2020, 18:00 PM
The challenge of inequality - An agenda for action
It is only when the poor and other excluded sections of the population are sitting in the representative institutions of the state, in local elective bodies as well as in Parliament, that they will be able to ensure that their particular concerns are mainstreamed within the policymaking process.
2 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Reimagining South Asia in 2030
The future of South Asia, as a community does not look too promising in the wake of the postponement of the SAARC summit. As a person who has been engaged over 40 years in civil society initiatives to recreate a South Asian community, I have witnessed a number of such fluctuations in the fortunes of the SAARC process.
17 October 2016, 18:00 PM
A tribute to a champion of the deprived
I can think of few people who have done more for the world's deprived population than Fazle Hasan Abed.
25 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Physician heal thyself
To wake up, in the best tradition of Rip Van Winkle, after all of 9 years, to a self-confessed action by Mahfuz Anam which was, at that time, practiced by most of his colleagues and continues to be practiced today, smacks of wilful amnesia or selective memory, which are common afflictions among our media, chattering classes and political community.
18 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Prelude to an order for genocide
AS President Yahya flew out of Dacca on the night of March 25 he took with him the last hopes of a united Pakistan. For the final two days he had been holed up in the Dacca cantonment with the junta of generals who rule Pakistan, putting the finishing touches to Operation Genocide.
1 March 2015, 18:00 PM