‘Like a morning after a nuclear attack’
24 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Fear of sexual harassment triggering child marriage: survey
20 February 2022, 18:00 PM
For the Love of Tea
7 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Court Corner / SC forms committee against sexual harassment
4 November 2021, 18:00 PM
UK-listed cybersecurity firm Avast in merger talks with NortonLifeLock
15 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Change is the only constant
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Media: Between a rock and a hard place
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
How new autocrats curb press freedom
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
(Uncertain) Future of Journalism in Bangladesh
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
“The space for in-depth critical journalism is shrinking"
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Five Came Back: when Hollywood went to war
When browsing through the catalogue of shows on Netflix one night, I came across an entry with a thumbnail that took me back to the book covers of classic thriller novels such as Alastair McLean’s Guns of Navarone.
8 August 2019, 18:00 PM
The moon between the trees
On the advent of the World Indigenous Day, Star Weekend has translated a song by the late Kumar Samit Roy. Most of his songs were composed based on present-day Rangamati.
8 August 2019, 18:00 PM
THE HOUSE OF MAD
The child came just as dawn was about to crack. The earth had almost completed one rotation and was getting ready to light up again and along she came as the darkest hour of the night came to an end.
8 August 2019, 18:00 PM
The other side of PEACE
The machines of war grind through the hills and through the minds of their inhabitants. The tracks of tanks and boots of troops mark the soil that holds the roots of ancient, indigenous communities.
8 August 2019, 18:00 PM
How to co-opt a forest and its people
The Modhupur sal forest exists on the map of northern Bangladesh as a small blob of green in what is otherwise a sea of grey. Being designated the colour green on a map is special—it means that patch of land is an unruly,
8 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Utpal Nokrek tells his story from the wheelchair
It was January 3, 2004. I was only 18. I joined a rally to protest the construction of the so-called eco-park within the Modhupur National Park—built on what we considered our ancestral land.
8 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Lost in documentation
A long-awaited and yet-to-be released ‘Ethno-Linguistic Survey of Bangladesh’ identifies 14 indigenous languages on the verge of extinction. Completed in 2015, this is the first large-scale linguistic survey undertaken in the country since the colonial-era ‘Linguistic Survey of India’ by George Abraham Grierson in 1928.
8 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Can protecting the seas, help protect the wild?
In a country bursting at its seams with a continuously growing population, it can be hard to get things right especially when it comes to wildlife conservation.
1 August 2019, 18:00 PM
The changing pattern of dengue
Dengue, the notorious mosquito-borne menace in the country, is back and so is the familiar paranoia that accompanies its advent every monsoon. Splashed across the front pages of newspapers and the headlines of news channels are the alarming numbers of new cases of dengue every day.
1 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Polygamy in the CAMPS
Earlier, I wrote on sexual and gender-based violence in the camps as well as the psychosocial support provided in the camps to Rohingya women in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.
1 August 2019, 18:00 PM
20 hours of bliss in Prizren
I arrived in Prizren on a hot day in late May, after an overly complicated bus journey from Shkodër in Albania. What should have been a three-hour bus ride took a total of eight hours, including two hours of transit in Tirana.
25 July 2019, 18:00 PM
World’s marrow
The old demon king was named Jael and he had a hunger for meat.
25 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Journey by train… sitting on a bucket
For years now, the Bangladesh railway has been suffering constant losses. In the 2016-2017 fiscal year, the net loss of this vital public transport system was more than Tk 180 million.
25 July 2019, 18:00 PM
The Break-In
They came home and found the backdoor open. Stan, who was the last one out, had forgotten to lock it. But there was no I told you so from Carla as she traipsed around to assess the damage, which wasn’t much—one smashed chair and a bed that looked slept in, both Junior’s.
11 July 2019, 18:00 PM
The secret life of booksellers
Petrichor is the word for when rain hits dry soil, releasing a fragrance almost impossible to describe—the earth smells wetter somehow; richer, browner, greener. It was petrichor I smelled as I roamed, shuffled, and tiptoed my way through rain-drenched parts
11 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Why Rome will always be one of my favourite European cities
I know I have not been to every city in Europe, nor have I been to every country in Europe (yet), but I feel confident in claiming that
4 July 2019, 18:00 PM
When art tackles the inadequacy of language
It was sometime in winter last year that co-curator Sharmilie Rahman invited a group of artists—Abdus Salam, Abir Shome, Emran
4 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Speaking for our times
When I started reading Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, it was not for the fact that it was the new work of a much-admired writer of the
4 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Fossil fuels spark wars and create migrants. Are renewables better?
There is a concept called the Resource Curse. Countries with high quantities of natural resources such as oil and certain minerals have
4 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Where is Pathao headed?
Please accept this letter as formal notification of my resignation from my position in Pathao. As per my appointment letter I am
4 July 2019, 18:00 PM