Liberty

POETRY / The children of the red storm

You've ignited a tempest, / a crimson anger, / A defiance burning brighter than the summer's sun

POETRY / Ghostly tenants

My father speaks in a dismantled language that goes up in  smoke. 

POETRY / The song of freedom

the bullet hole/ in my brother's chest/ unfolds like a pandora's box

'Attempt to crush independent media' in Bangladesh

Without free access to information, backed up by journalists who are willing to dig down and get to the truth, all the other liberties celebrated in democracies are endangered. That's why the world should be worried by the concerted attacks on one of the leading newspaper editors in South Asia, Mahfuz Anam of Bangladesh's Daily Star.

Women must create their own fate: PM

Emphasising that women must create their own fate and personal destiny, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said women can do all outside works maintaining decency as the religion Islam gives them that liberty.