Last week I was having a haircut at the saloon of our local club. As the haircutter (using a synonym of barber) worked deftly with his comb and scissor he started gossiping. Since I’m ...

A New Chapter The historic homecoming of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman marks a new chapter in the history of Bangladesh. January 10, 1972 was not only a day in the Gregorian calendar ...

Bangladesh’s biggest achievement during the past 50 years is economic growth. But euphoria for this growth has been dulled by rising inequality and increasing insecurity in individual ...

A domestic focus for both the U.S. and Chinese governments lowers the odds of a big international conflict in 2022, but it leaves less potential leadership and coordination to respond to eme ...

Right now, global rivalry is all that occupies global media. Such is the scenario that any news that is not linked to Sino-US rivalry and potential conflict can get binned. So the news that& ...

Matt Bennett, an American-born writer, singer and photographer based in Vietnam, while wandering across Asia reporting on travel and culture, had stumbled upon the streets of Dhaka and fasci ...

Bangladesh fought and won the war in 1971 and it took 9 months. It was a remarkable war because just about everyone participated in it one way or the other. It was possible because it was an ...