Who is to blame for unsafe roads?
There are few places as unsafe for a Bangladeshi as the roads and highways of the country, with at least…
Category: Opinion
A journey into students’ mental health
The Daily Star – Syed Saad Andaleeb, Gazi Asif Ahmed Youth is often painted in vivid colours – different shades…
Decentralisation of Dhaka need not be a dream
The Daily Star – Rahamat Ullah Since the birth of this country, our urbanisation policies have always been Dhaka-centric, and…
Into the rhyme and reason of poetry
The Daily Star – Tashfia Ahmed I think I’ve always been a poet. Even when I thought as a teenager…
Take action to stop RMG cargo theft
The suspicious handling of a suspected mastermind behind a series of highway robberies involving export-bound RMG products has once again…
Without support from bureaucracy, EC can’t hold fair elections
The Daily Star – Meer Ahsan Habib The phenomenon of high-ranking bureaucrats joining political parties after retirement is a matter…
What Ukraine needs to learn from Afghanistan
The Daily Star – Jeffrey D. Sachs The greatest enemy of economic development is war. If the world slips further…
Highway accident or murder?
The horrific crash that killed 19 people on the Dhaka-Bhanga expressway on Sunday highlights nearly all the problems with our…
Road crash deaths know no end
The horrific accident that happened on the Dhaka-Bhanga expressway on Sunday once again brought to fore the issues in our…
Rab must answer for latest killing
We are alarmed by the news of the death of a 65-year-old man during a raid by the Rapid Action…
Writing the Good Fight: Women, War, and Jahanara Imam’s Ekattorer Dinguli
The Daily Star – Debali Mookerjea-Leonard In 1938, as Hitler marched across Europe, Virginia Woolf, in Three Guineas, urged women…
Political dialogues: The long road to nowhere
The Daily Star – Mohammad Al-Masum Molla It is an established fact that elections bring about a gust of uncertainty…
Hope in the time of energy crisis
We are delighted to see the opening of the India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline – the first cross-border energy pipeline between the…
Should US bank failures concern Bangladesh’s financial sector?
The Daily Star – Birupaksha Paul In a village, there used to be a rich man who used to drink…
No end to the procession of dead rivers
It’s quite frustrating to see report after report on the pollution and encroachment of the Khowai river, flowing through the…
Living like the poor, paying like the rich
The Daily Star – Badiuzzaman Bay Ramadan is supposed to be a month of abstinence. Instead, it may turn out…
Global Firepower Ranking 2023: Implications for Bangladesh
The Daily Star – Towkir Hossain For a country to showcase its national strength, military capability and coercive endurance, power…
Why delay probing money launderers?
Our financial investigators seem to have a habit of sitting back and waiting for information to fall into their laps,…
Of ‘BONOBIBI’ and music as a form of storytelling
The Daily Star – Maisha Syeda, Hrishik Roy When Coke Studio Bangla released Meghdol’s Bonobibi, their second song of season…
Bangabandhu: A miracle of history
The Daily Star – Mahbub Uddin Ahmed Bir Bikram Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the dreamer and creator of independent Bangladesh,…
How much more must the Teesta bleed?
We are deeply disturbed by news reports that West Bengal is planning to dig two more canals under the Teesta…