Column

No love lost

February is like a traffic light – signalling us to slow down and stop. It starts with the green of picnics, then the orange of Pohela
16 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Can Bangladesh become an economic powerhouse?

According to Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Bangladesh has the potential to become the world's 23rd largest economy by 2050.
15 February 2017, 18:00 PM

A special kind of stupid

Is it just me or is everyone around me going a bit cuckoo?! And I'm not talking about the lawmaker who thought it was grand to walk
13 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Making the energy transition in Bangladesh and around the world

On the last day of the 22nd Conference of Parties (COP22) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
13 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Tourism gone wild

Despite all these constraints—inadequate and poor quality public transports, extended travel time, high-priced but low quality accommodation, lack of recreational facilities—the number of domestic tourists has gone up significantly over the years.
12 February 2017, 18:00 PM

PATALRAIL FOR DHAKA: The nation has no alternative

My university in Upstate New York once sent all its faculty members to Raquette Lake for meditation and brainstorming research ideas.
11 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Oh Summer Whine!

I get a call to do a comedy show at an event. I am asked, "Do we have to pay you?" I answer, "No, in fact I will pay you.
9 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Is abusive behaviour a choice?

I was once called a whore. Chances are, so have you, if you're a woman. And like me, you've probably been called other names too (and I'm sorry that you have), but this is the one I choose to focus on because this one befuddles me.
8 February 2017, 18:00 PM

The best possible solution

Since the re-escalation of tensions between the government of Myanmar and the Rohingya people in October 2016 and the reinvigorated persecution of the minority group that followed, thousands of Rohingyas have again fled to Bangladesh - the United Nations humanitarian office's most recent estimate is 69,000.
8 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Beating the traffic jam

You can sit back and witness a silent movie unfolding, starring a street vendor and a buyer. Some people ask the price to pass time, and the disgusted seller knows it.
7 February 2017, 18:00 PM

What the rest of the world can do

Although President Trump has only been in office for less than a month, it is already becoming clear how he intends to carry out implementing his campaign pledges and who he is appointing in his cabinet.
7 February 2017, 18:00 PM

The Virtual Vogue

By habit, I shake the morning newspapers violently every morning. This way, I shake redundance off the pages.
7 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Monetary policy for a 'grandson' economy

After the announcement of the new monetary policy for January-June 2017, the stock market faced a rapid decline, suggesting a negative response of the capital market to the central bank's stance and attitude.
6 February 2017, 18:00 PM

The changing world order

Isn't this refugee migration the creation of the West? Hasn't the West-imposed wars on the Middle East and North Africa that have totally destroyed the socio-religious fabric of Muslim civilisation in these parts of the world? The result - millions are now at the doors of the West as refugees.
5 February 2017, 18:00 PM

“Then they came for me”

In his bestselling book, The Black Swan (2007), Nassim Nicholas Taleb developed an interesting theory.
4 February 2017, 18:00 PM

The United States of Hysteria

Sorry I'm not writing today on Rampal or the proposed Fat VAT (ok, Fat Tax). I have a feeling that the next 200 Humorously Yours
3 February 2017, 18:00 PM

When you have to start with a 'no'

No apol-ogy when one is due would reflect my insensitivity. The excuse for my unusually long voluntary hiatus is that the media the
2 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Of black excellence and Serena

The private tennis clubs in the US remained off limits to minorities well into the second half of the twentieth century. Her distinction thus comes with the ability to imagine herself achieving a new kind of history for all of us.
1 February 2017, 18:00 PM

The cost of honesty

The humiliating spectacle of the uprooting of the nameplate of an Assistant Commissioner of Customs at his Chittagong office, allegedly by enraged clearing and forwarding agents, along with the transfer of the said official in indecent haste, has unfortunately not evoked the desired reaction.
1 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Which is the real face of America?

The anti-immigrant protagonists forget that the country is a nation of immigrants, although there has been periodic enactment of anti-migrant policies. Immigrants were at times unwelcome, out of fear and anger.
1 February 2017, 18:00 PM