The Porimoni affair has shown how money, sex, clubbing and power all combine to produce the current Bangladesh sleaze. Many seem shocked but most are not. They are doing the proverbial "how ...

Barrister Ziaur Rahman Khan passed away in Dhaka on 25th April. His demise came as a deep shock to me as it did to many of his friends. A memorial was organized by his family on 5th June in ...

A boy back from his rural home soon after Eid, hacks himself to death with a coconut-seller's cleaver, while screaming to be forgiven for some unknown sins. It’s so absurd and surr ...

Let’s face the fact. Israel is here to stay. Protest meetings at Baitul Muqarram and angry FB posts won’t make it disappear. It’s stronger than all its Arab neighbours and ...

There is a new word in the American political lexicon. Bidenomics, coined after President Joe Biden, neatly summarizes the slew of economic policy changes he has introduced which, if impleme ...

Bangladesh is used to being abused. It goes back all the way to 1971 when US leader Henry Kissinger declared, Bangladesh was going to be a "bottomless basket case." The focus on the B was ob ...

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