Opinion / Dear mothers, stop coddling your sons
5 December 2025, 03:00 AM
Opinion
Opinion / Without song, the soul is a desert
22 September 2025, 02:00 AM
Opinion
Threatening to gang-rape is not just vile, it’s a crime
5 September 2025, 03:00 AM
Opinion
Domestic violence in Bangladesh: When numbers speak of the silence
23 August 2025, 02:00 AM
Opinion
Opinion / The interim government’s silence over misogyny is tragic
30 May 2025, 03:00 AM
Opinion
Reaction / Nusraat Faria’s arrest sends an ominous message to the people
20 May 2025, 06:29 AM
News
Opinion / Why are young men becoming so violent?
30 April 2025, 02:00 AM
Opinion
Why 2025 is a crucial year for Bangladesh
1 January 2025, 05:00 AM
Opinion
Seeing Bangladesh through Andrew Eagle’s eyes
15 December 2024, 10:00 AM
Opinion
Hate is bringing us closer to our own extinction
13 December 2024, 02:00 AM
Opinion
Dear mothers, stop coddling your sons
If we want decent men, we must start by raising decent boys.
5 December 2025, 03:00 AM
Without song, the soul is a desert
To argue that music causes moral decay is not only baseless—it’s dangerous.
22 September 2025, 02:00 AM
Threatening to gang-rape is not just vile, it’s a crime
Threats of repeated sexual violence subtly aim to intimidate and exclude women from public participation spaces
5 September 2025, 03:00 AM
Domestic violence in Bangladesh: When numbers speak of the silence
When we are informed that 133 women have been killed by their husbands in seven months, it is no longer just a number.
23 August 2025, 02:00 AM
The interim government’s silence over misogyny is tragic
There is chaos and dissent in every corner and no one seems to have a grip on anything.
30 May 2025, 03:00 AM
Why are young men becoming so violent?
There is a staggering lack of empathy, respect, and compassion in our society, which has seeped into many of our young people.
30 April 2025, 02:00 AM
Why 2025 is a crucial year for Bangladesh
Let us recap some of the most critical lessons of 2024 as we look forward to 2025.
1 January 2025, 05:00 AM
Hate is bringing us closer to our own extinction
We are now going through times of extreme anxiety caused by economic uncertainty, rapid social change, and complex global issues.
13 December 2024, 02:00 AM
Why did Abdullah have to die?
How many of those injured during the July-August uprising, like Abdullah, are still fighting for their lives?
22 November 2024, 02:00 AM
Are we trying to get ‘everything, everywhere, all at once’?
The euphoria of August 5, and the momentous days leading up to it, especially since July 15, are now being overshadowed by a cloud of uncertainty.
25 October 2024, 04:00 AM
Cox’s Bazar attacks reflect a sickness far from being cured
By giving their opinions a religious tag, groups or individuals have managed to get away with vicious assaults on women
20 September 2024, 02:00 AM
One month after the new beginning
From that pivotal moment on August 5, the subsequent events in the next 30 days have been just as dramatic
5 September 2024, 02:00 AM
Saluting the spirit of our young people
There is no shame in admitting that in the last few days many of us have cried helplessly, over the senseless deaths of students—teenagers or in their early twenties—the same age or close to the ages of our children.
23 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Is it possible to escape from the seduction of smartphones?
The bug of relentless connectivity to some world or the other has infected us, and there seems to be no cure.
14 June 2024, 04:00 AM
World leaders are disconnected from the youth
Student protestors are calling out the double standards of Western powers
24 May 2024, 03:00 AM
Kindness gives life its biggest dividends
The history of civilisation has shown that humans survive when they are part of a community.
29 March 2024, 02:00 AM
The poor’s debt burden gets heavier
The vicious cycle of taking loans to pay bills and then taking another loan to pay off the first loan may continue throughout their lives, with little or no real improvement in their living standards.
22 March 2024, 01:00 AM
A glimpse into the crazy, irrational mind of a woman
Women are crazy because they set the bar ridiculously high for themselves, with no thought of self-preservation.
8 March 2024, 02:30 AM
How entitled are you?
Entitlement is a bad habit that few of us can escape.
2 February 2024, 02:00 AM
When the mind gets foggier than the weather
There is an explanation, however infuriating, to each of the delightful conundrums in public work.
19 January 2024, 02:00 AM