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Historical
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For the Love of Tea
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Court Corner / SC forms committee against sexual harassment
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Business
Change is the only constant
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
Media: Between a rock and a hard place
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
How new autocrats curb press freedom
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
(Uncertain) Future of Journalism in Bangladesh
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
“The space for in-depth critical journalism is shrinking"
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Star Weekend
In the battle between rights and aid
April 24 – the day when thousands of lives and dreams were lost forever – is once again knocking at our doors.
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Are we sugarcoating murder?
It is difficult to decide whether the murder case filed against 41 people for the Rana Plaza disaster can be measured as progress or not.
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
How much is a worker's life worth?
Asma Akhter, a 25-year-old Rana Plaza survivor, still struggles to drag her heavy prosthetic legs.
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Organising Labour under the Neoliberal Gaze
What are the prospects and limits of conventional modes of organising labour in the garment industry, given the current labour rights regime in
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Thinking beyond Accord and Alliance
Workplace safety and security in Bangladeshi garment factories attracted widespread international scrutiny after the Tazreen fashion...
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
What After Rana Plaza?
Four years ago, over a thousand workers lost their lives and 2500 were injured in the collapse of the Rana Plaza building.
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Sramik Awaaz: The unheard four million
Chaumtoli Huq explores the reality of the workers' rights movement in the garments industry of Bangladesh in her 2017 documentary Sramik Awaaz or Worker Voices.
13 April 2017, 18:00 PM
What could have been a landmark case
This could have been a landmark case. This could have - once and for all - proved that sexual harassment on the street is something that needs to be dealt with the force of law.
13 April 2017, 18:00 PM
The ultimate guide to [stressing over] a job after graduation
It is no happy coincidence that my return to full time employment and my second foray into writing began at the same time.
6 April 2017, 18:00 PM
STRINGS, KNOBS AND ROCK AND ROLL
To this day he is considered a living legend in the music community—yet he doesn’t sing or play any instrument. Abdur Rafique – known as the first true roadie, the first guitar technician, a musician’s doctor, the real life MacGyver – is the oldest music technician of Bangladesh.
6 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Capturing The Indomitable Spirit of Bengal
In late November of last year, I was approached by an earnest young man from the Dhaka University Theatre and Performance Studies
6 April 2017, 18:00 PM
I, Migrant
One London night, a few weeks after Brexit, something happened as I was walking to a bus stop that had never happened in the 9...
6 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Access Denied!
Adil Mahbub lost his leg in a road accident when he was in grade seven. After the accident, Adil's studies came to a halt for a long seven years as no school agreed to enrol Adil, who is now wheelchair-bound.
6 April 2017, 18:00 PM
CRUTCH'ER COLONEL: LIFE AND DEATH OF AN 'UNSOLVED' HERO
Bangladesh's theatre scenario has been the source of my personal frustration ever since I started working as an arts journalist.
30 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Lupus on the Seventh Day
On the 7th day, Dr Barinstein came into the room viciously rubbing her hands with sanitizer mostly splashing off her fingers.
30 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Monetising America's Racism and Messiah Complex
Donald Trump made the headlines once again, as he has every day since before election, by now banning all electronic devices from...
30 March 2017, 18:00 PM
For the women, by the women
The discourse on women's issues, as advocated by women's rights organisations around the world, often ends up portraying women as victims of their circumstances.
30 March 2017, 18:00 PM
In Defense of the Bollywood Song Sequence
One of my most vivid memories of watching Hindi films in the 1980s – at home, on a video-cassette player...
30 March 2017, 18:00 PM
In search of Home
For 24-year-old Anika Ibnat, finding a safe space to call home, like many single women in Dhaka city, has been a struggle.
30 March 2017, 18:00 PM
CALL IT CRONYISM
The government is devising ways to offload state-owned companies' shares according to a new Daily Star report (March 17, 2017).
30 March 2017, 18:00 PM