So many of our memories of our nation’s birth is tied to the people we have lost.

The coronavirus has had a disproportionate impact on developing countries such as Bangladesh.

The streets of Dhaka have been animated by women marching in protest and rage against rape and the continued violence against women. The demand for women’s freedoms—of movement, of expression, of choice—have found a new radical vocabulary and expression.

Last month, amidst a seemingly sudden uptick in the number of rape cases across the country, the Brac James P. Grant School of Public Health released a study that showed 63 percent of participants—11,102 male respondents aged between 15 and 24, from all 64 districts (81 urban and 289 rural clusters)—believed that beating their wives is justified if they are denied sex.

In the black-and-white cultural milieu that often engulfs us, we are frequently unable to grasp a man’s intellectual worth when neat categories cannot pin them down.

It’s been almost one year since the novel coronavirus was identified in China and reported to WHO. During the past year, the pandemic caused by Covid-19 has spread to the entire world, over six and a half crores have been infected, and over 15 lakhs have died.

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines intimate partner violence (IPV) as any behaviour by an intimate partner or ex-partner that causes physical, psychological or sexual harm (WHO, 2016).

After years of uncertainty the much contested relocation of Rohingya refugees to Bhashan Char has become a reality. On December 3, 1,642 inmates of the existing camps were brought to the Char via Chittagong by seven vessels of the Bangladesh Navy with much fanfare.

On December 6, 1990, military dictator Hussain Muhammad Ershad stepped down in the face of a mass upsurge and handed power over to a caretaker government ending his nine years of autocratic rule which began through grabbing power in a coup on March 24, 1982.

If one is asked, where do you feel most safe and secure? The answer will invariably be “my home”.

What does the Women, Peace and Security Agenda have to do with arms control and disarmament?”.

He was no ordinary instrumentalist. Neither was he a run-of-the-mill tutor of music. He was a gifted musician, a rare talent, groomed in one of the most illustrious gharanas ofsub-continental classical music.

After years of wait, we are finally going to get the Detailed Area Plan (DAP) 2016-35 for Dhaka. Yet, there is nothing to be happy about it.

The Academic Experience Project is a faculty-student collaborative work aimed to glean insights about the experiences of tertiary-level students. Each Friday, The Daily Star will publish an op-ed highlighting the findings of the project. This is the fifth article of the series.

Discourse—the production of knowledge through language—as the famous French philosopher Michel Foucault has defined it, consists of language as well as practice.

Do more, talk less is the advice given by Kevin Rudd, former Australian Prime Minister, to current Australian prime minister Scott Morrison, on his war of words with China.

Increasing strains between Pakistan and its traditional Arab allies, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, is about more than Gulf states opportunistically targeting India’s far more lucrative market.

We seem to know more about the bad things and people in the world than we do the good. Perhaps there are too many bad things and people.

It has been 23 years since the signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Accord.

I have written on the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord of 1997 numerous times, especially in the early 2000s, right up to the 2010s, and have had articles published in Bangladesh and abroad, including through Cambridge University Press. Perhaps having a premonition of what was in the offing, I had dubbed the agreement “the discordant accord”.