Column by Mahfuz Anam / Yunus, Charter, and Our Future
23 October 2025, 18:30 PM
Can Trump’s Gaza ceasefire redefine peace in Middle East?
23 October 2025, 14:00 PM
The dilemma triangle of our tertiary education
23 October 2025, 07:00 AM
MIND THE GAP / A bitter brew: Climate change and the decline of Sylhet’s tea gardens
23 October 2025, 06:00 AM
Ports for private profit or national progress?
23 October 2025, 03:00 AM
New data regulations warrant urgent rethinking
22 October 2025, 06:29 AM
Opinion / 'Apnar Orna Koi?': How identity politics targets women
22 October 2025, 06:00 AM
Opinion / Uniforms do not outrank the constitution
22 October 2025, 04:00 AM
National Road Safety Day / ‘Road deaths cannot be reduced without BRTA reform’
22 October 2025, 03:00 AM
The unfinished revolution for women's political rights
23 October 2025, 04:00 AM
Trump’s Gaza initiative: A path to peace?
The foreign ministers of Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the UAE issued a joint statement supporting several key principles of Trump’s proposal.
4 October 2025, 09:00 AM
Global community too diplomatic to find pragmatic solutions
The absence of China, India, Thailand, Malaysia, and Russia was glaring.
4 October 2025, 07:00 AM
The Global South must demand more than symbolic recognition for Palestine
The UK, even as it moved to recognise Palestine, continues to arm Israel.
4 October 2025, 06:00 AM
Bangladesh can’t afford to remain a one-legged economy
For Bangladesh, export diversification has become an existential demand.
4 October 2025, 05:00 AM
Women in coastal regions need better social security
For Bangladesh, especially in places like coastal Satkhira, ASP must be tailored to the unique needs of women.
3 October 2025, 07:00 AM
Hair, humiliation, and madness: The policing of bodies
Various forms of hair-policing tend to target the vulnerable in our society.
3 October 2025, 04:00 AM
Will an Upper House solve Bangladesh’s governance woes?
Bicameralism and proportional representation are not the panacea to solve all our problems of abuse of power.
3 October 2025, 02:00 AM
Do you have the courage to speak beyond your keyboard?
While Shahidul Alam sets sail for Gaza, critics mock him. What does that say about us?
2 October 2025, 19:49 PM
Palestinian subordination: Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan
US President Donald Trump advanced a peace proposal that essentially preserves Israeli pre-eminence regarding the fate of Palestinians
2 October 2025, 10:10 AM
The eternal curfew: When paying rent doesn’t buy freedom
A rented flat is a home, not a dormitory with a curfew.
2 October 2025, 07:00 AM
An Orwellian look at modern Asian upheavals
The warnings of Orwell’s 1984 feel sharper in South and Southeast Asia.
2 October 2025, 05:00 AM
Law must recognise rape threats as audible intent
Threats of rape and sexual assault should be criminalised as felonies.
2 October 2025, 04:00 AM
From case backlog to justice: A practical blueprint for Bangladesh’s courts
The path forward is now clear enough: appoint more judges, and appoint them better.
2 October 2025, 02:00 AM
How the quality of leadership makes or breaks a workplace
A supportive leader can unlock strengths that a person may not even recognise in themselves.
1 October 2025, 10:30 AM
The illusion of advantage: US reciprocal tariffs and Bangladesh’s exports
A relative gain can turn into a loss when the American market begins to shrink.
1 October 2025, 06:00 AM
Mob violence: When the law of the crowd takes over
Mob violence is a vicious cycle in which fear fuels violence and violence deepens fear.
1 October 2025, 05:00 AM
Dhaka is not for old people, but it is their city too
We have built a society where many elderly people are entirely dependent on others to go out.
1 October 2025, 04:00 AM
How to overcome the impasse on July Charter
A pervasive sense of mistrust, fuelled more by political calculation than by reality, has paralysed the charter’s progress.
1 October 2025, 03:00 AM
Wording the word and worlding the world: Poetics and politics of translation
The translator is not a neutral bridge but a creative curator.
30 September 2025, 07:38 AM
Climate change is not gender-blind, our response must not be either
Unicef notes that prolonged school closures increase the likelihood that girls will drop out permanently or be married off as families search for ways to cope.
30 September 2025, 05:00 AM