Column by Mahfuz Anam / Yunus, Charter, and Our Future
23 October 2025, 18:30 PM
Opinion
Can Trump’s Gaza ceasefire redefine peace in Middle East?
23 October 2025, 14:00 PM
Opinion
The dilemma triangle of our tertiary education
23 October 2025, 07:00 AM
Opinion
MIND THE GAP / A bitter brew: Climate change and the decline of Sylhet’s tea gardens
23 October 2025, 06:00 AM
Opinion
Ports for private profit or national progress?
23 October 2025, 03:00 AM
Opinion
New data regulations warrant urgent rethinking
22 October 2025, 06:29 AM
Opinion
Opinion / 'Apnar Orna Koi?': How identity politics targets women
22 October 2025, 06:00 AM
Opinion
Opinion / Uniforms do not outrank the constitution
22 October 2025, 04:00 AM
Opinion
National Road Safety Day / ‘Road deaths cannot be reduced without BRTA reform’
22 October 2025, 03:00 AM
Opinion
The unfinished revolution for women's political rights
23 October 2025, 04:00 AM
Opinion
'I just need 30 minutes of silence'
We call Dhaka a noisy city, but hardly ever do I feel like the noise stops at our doorsteps.
13 July 2022, 12:30 PM
What has led Bangladesh to its current energy crisis?
The world is going through one of the worst energy crises in recent times, even if we compare it to the situation that arose out of the 1973 Arab oil embargo.
12 July 2022, 15:00 PM
Is It Sri Lanka’s ‘Arab Spring’ Moment?
Two dates – May 9 and July 9 – will remain significant for the Rajapaksa brothers in Sri Lanka.
12 July 2022, 12:00 PM
What makes Bangladesh 7th saddest nation in the world?
According to the Global Emotions Report 2022, Bangladesh is the seventh saddest nation in the world. And we became miserable well before the onset of high inflation and cost of living crisis.
8 July 2022, 16:00 PM
A sobering call for austerity
In a rare public call, our prime minister has asked us all to maintain austerity.
8 July 2022, 14:00 PM
Salma Khan: A mind without fear and a head held high
She gave visibility to the invisible by exposing the exclusion of women from development activities.
8 July 2022, 13:00 PM
The two economic problems we can’t seem to overcome
There are two major economic problems that have been plaguing Bangladesh for a long time: Rising non-performing loans (NPLs), and money getting laundered out of the country.
7 July 2022, 16:00 PM
Don't turn receivers of aid into photo props
Many have fallen prey to the unforgiving lens of the camera, and it is quite often that the lines between relief and respect becomes blurred.
7 July 2022, 15:00 PM
We must do better with our stamps
A stamp represents the image of a country, hence requires some care in designing.
7 July 2022, 14:00 PM
A case for making jobseekers’ info open data
There is a huge need for data in every aspect of human life, from personal life to business, social, scientific, economic, and public policy and decision-making processes.
6 July 2022, 15:00 PM
Our disturbing apathy towards domestic worker abuse
There are certain topics which, when in the news, garner a lot of attention and opinions from varying perspectives.
5 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid reality, Hindutva and the state of academic freedom
“The situation is alarming, ghastly and uncertain. Deaths all around and institutions seem to be collapsing fast. More seriously, there is no able political head who can lead the nation at this stage of serious crisis”.
5 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid-19 recovery: Contexts and priorities in Bangladesh
Around a year and a half have passed since the onset of the Covid crisis.
4 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Building back a greener Bangladesh
The title of this article has been borrowed from an on-line discussion organised by the Policy Research Institute on June 20, 2021. I was a panelist at the event, which some current and former World Bank officials had participated in, together with most of the famous environmental experts of Bangladesh.
3 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Psychosocial support during Covid-19
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), worldwide, nearly 1 billion people are suffering from some form of mental disorder and in every 40 seconds, one person is committing suicide.
3 July 2021, 18:00 PM
On removing character evidence from the law
It is indeed a relief to know that section 155(4) of the Evidence Act that allows character evidence in rape cases will perhaps finally be removed.
3 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Prisoners can hold Zoom meetings?
We all know how corrupt individuals beat the system with influence and of course, money. But the news of a convicted prisoner accused of a huge scam that deceived thousands of
3 July 2021, 18:00 PM
New safari park amidst already shrinking forests
We, along with environmentalists and forest inhabitants, are concerned about the government's plan to build the country's third safari park in the hilly, 5,141-acre Lathitila forest of
3 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Power to the profundity and imagination: Timeless films of Satyajit Ray
From the 1920s to the early 1950s, several directors working within Hollywood—as well as filmmakers in former Soviet Union, France, Italy, Germany, and Japan—considered cinema not as a mere tool of entertainment but as a medium for creative expression.
2 May 2021, 18:00 PM
A different kind of new year
Two months earlier, workers on the third floor of New Market in Dhaka were busy dyeing/preparing sarees, mostly white and red, to be delivered to boutique shops ahead of the New Year.
13 April 2020, 18:00 PM