We need more than air purifiers to clean up Dhaka’s air
It’s easy to dismiss Dhaka as an unliveable city. The challenge is to replace that tantrum with the determination to make the city better.
10 May 2025, 02:00 AM
The crisis of a fossilised education system
It will be a crime to miss the post-uprising zeitgeist and not to overhaul our educational sector.
3 May 2025, 05:59 AM
KUET protests and the evolving student-university relations
KUET has exposed systemic weakness in conflict resolution.
26 April 2025, 02:00 AM
The sorry state of our green passports
Bangladeshi passports are ranked among the weakest in the world.
19 April 2025, 04:06 AM
Homecoming with a purpose
The challenge for us is to retain quality in a system with resistance.
12 April 2025, 07:00 AM
The pervasive curse of toxic masculinity
The real issue here is power and control over women’s bodies and space.
5 April 2025, 05:00 AM
Eid in a time of uncertainty and change
To bring back confidence, the rule of law must be established.
29 March 2025, 03:00 AM
Building a future for Bangladeshi football
To make the imported inspiration sustainable, we need to create an ecosystem for our players.
22 March 2025, 05:00 AM
In the name of academic research
Friday's Prothom Alo ran an article based on the research findings of a Bangladeshi PhD student at a Canadian University. The report,
31 December 2016, 18:00 PM
In the name of sanity
Dhaka takes pride in its rickshaws. The word 'rickshaw' originates from the Japanese word jinrikisha (jin = human, riki = power or
26 September 2016, 18:00 PM
A Scholar Extraordinaire
It's 3 in the morning. I went to bed at 9 last night just to wake up early in order to meet the deadline for my piece on the first death anniversary of my mentor Prof Zillur Rahman Siddiqui.
10 November 2015, 18:00 PM
When the going gets tough
Dhaka is a city that is generating hatred. Dhaka is a city that is fast splitting into two polarised camps.
29 June 2015, 18:00 PM