He wanted to be a part of something that would be bigger than himself and that is why Shafat became one of the key driving forces to initiate the launch of our non-profit organisation, 'Heroes for All', in Bangladesh.

On February 12, 2017, I first came to learn from a Facebook message from the Bangladesh Embassy in Brasilia that Mohamed Mijarul Quayes, Bangladesh Ambassador to Brazil, and former Foreign Secretary, was in an ICU there with serious respiratory and renal complications.

This February, the community of economists, the world over, learned of the death of an icon, Kenneth Joseph Arrow; tributes came pouring in from all corners. The youngest to date to have won the Economics Nobel in 1972, he surely was much more.

Serajul Haque Kazi, more popularly Sipi to all his friends and countless well-wishers, passed away in the early morning of February 13

Over the years, Bengal has produced a great number of poets. Their verses have touched thousands of people across the world...

The late scholar was universally regarded for his ability to say "no" to various material temptations. His dignity and self respect never permitted him to be submissive to power.

Ispahani Colony is one the last remaining places of greenery, serenity, and natural abode in the middle of an increasingly congested, recklessly urbanised, poorly managed, and environmentally hazardous Dhaka city.

As soon as people find out who my mother is, I am invariably faced with the statement “Surely, being Siddiqua Kabir's daughter you must be an excellent cook!” My standard response is: “Well, I take after my father rather than my mother.”

Mirza Ali Behrouze Ispahani, chairman of the Ispahani Group, one of the largest business conglomerates in the country, died as quietly as he lived.

Her life was dedicated to protecting and promoting her father's legacy during the ongoing massacre and brutal genocide of by the Pakistani regime in 1971.

I shall begin with a story, to which I will return again. In 2013, on the occasion of the 37th death anniversary of Maulana Bhashani, I met the vivacious and spirited 84-year old Burhan Uddin in Tangail (passed away in 2014).

In her writing, she makes it clear that men, who have denied women equal opportunities, should take a greater role in establishing gender justice.

Dr. Shamsul Alam Khan Milon was killed by goons of the military junta near the TSC of Dhaka University at the height of the anti-autocracy movement on November 27, 1990. To mark his 26th death anniversary, his daughter pens an obituary to the man whose sacrifice transformed the anti-autocracy movement into a mass uprising that led to the fall of the autocratic regime.