Ideally, sports and politics should never mix, but inevitably, sports and politics always mix.

While history has never been a one-man show, viewing it through the eyes of influential leaders can lend us a bigger picture.

Bangladesh ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan is entering a new chapter in his life as he is contesting in the national polls from Magura-1. For Shakib, cricket will have to take a backseat for a while. Still new to his political career, he was not keen on some of the hard questions on both politics and cricket. However, during an interview with Abdullah Al Mehdi of The Daily Star, Shakib did say things that somewhat contradicted his original stance about not featuring in the next ODI World Cup and the national team captaincy issue, which gained steam as of late with many suggesting a change in leadership, especially since Najmul Hossain Shanto did bring promising results in his short stint as an an interim skipper.

Arresting people on false charges is gross human rights violation

Let the truth be known: no one has any idea what’s going to happen to Bangladeshi politics.

Let good sense—and constitutional obligations—prevail

It cannot be ignored that the nation came to this day because a path to hold a fair election is absent, and that the current system of governance has undermined the citizens’ right to exercise their inalienable right to vote.

It seems all the opposition forces are becoming active ahead of the national election.

One cannot help but note that Quader had a brazen attitude and lacked any embarrassment about the vitriol his party had been spewing against the US for quite some time now.

It is hard to discard the notion that politics played no part in this decision from the government.

It is a well-known fact that politicians seek to retain power once they attain it.

Bangladesh’s next national election is only a few months away, and the market is already very hot.

Should we be surprised that so many people view the growing concentration of wealth with suspicion, or that they believe the system is rigged?

The debate about control of education has become more intense across the globe, manifesting in varying ways in different historical and socio-political contexts.

Is it a battle of numbers that give political actors the right to dehumanise them? We wish to believe that crises create the push for alternatives and that, in this case, collective actions will be towards this direction.

In Another India, Pratinav Anil unambiguously faults Nehruvian secularism—the very mantle championed by historians such as Mushirul Hasan for whom “the congress best represented the Muslim interests from the fifties on.”

The map is part of an exhibition arranged to mark the revival of the Cambridge Majlis, a society (dating from 1891) designed for students from all over the Subcontinent to meet socially to enjoy their commonalities and discuss and debate in a civil way their political differences.

It is the utter failure of our political leadership that it has created a sense of disillusionment and disengagement among young people.

BNP’s real loss in announcing the sit-ins without proper coordination was giving the upper hand to the ruling party

The novels are small revolutions, each seeking to energise and awaken the language. Together, they offer startling portraits of the current.