Column by Mahfuz Anam / Are we not forgetting the genocide of the Palestinians?
11 September 2026
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THE THIRD VIEW
25 years after 9/11, how did the ‘war on terror’ change the US?
11 September 2026
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I survived enforced disappearance. Parliament has now weakened the safeguards
11 September 2026
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World Suicide Prevention Day / Why changing how we talk about suicide matters for prevention
10 September 2026
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Tea workers deserve fair wages, and BNP is pledge-bound to deliver them
10 September 2026
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Loan defaults and a world championship we did not need
10 September 2026
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OPEN SKY
Ferdous Steel probe answered how the workers died, but not why
10 September 2026
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The RMG paradox: Growth, global dependence, and sustainability
9 September 2026
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What good will abolishing Rab do if its machinery is not dismantled?
9 September 2026
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A man-made disaster and the major economic losses it caused
While the micro and messo levels of losses are immediate and short term, macro level losses would be medium to long term.
25 July 2024
The government should take responsibility for its mistakes
The government wasted time while the violence continued.
25 July 2024
The irresponsible remarks of our responsible persons
History and ordinary people in general will remember very well what happened over the last week or so.
25 July 2024
An independent Bangladesh is enough for me
As a grandchild of a freedom fighter, I would have felt ashamed to use the quota after so many lost their lives over this issue.
24 July 2024
Bring those who ordered the excessive use of force to account
It is critical that there should be proper accounting for who authorised this kind of use of force, which has been excessive and disproportionate
24 July 2024
Are we educated merely to continue the cycle?
The vigour of youth emerges because they have not been disillusioned into accepting the deficiencies of the present.
24 July 2024
Whom do information blackouts during protests ultimately benefit?
Internet shutdown is one of the major aspects of control that the Awami League government has exercised to curb the protests.
24 July 2024
Road safety and a nation’s betrayal of its youth
Since 2019, a staggering 5,619 students have lost their lives on our roads
24 July 2024
What are the implications of revised export figures?
Since FY2022, actual export earnings emerging from the banking sector data were significantly lower than the figures reported by the EPB.
24 July 2024
Preparing for a Future of Extreme Heat Waves
As climate change accelerates, heat waves are expected to become increasingly frequent and intense
24 July 2024
When a quick buck reigns supreme
The cloud of dystopia thickens as public perception connects the dotted line between pervasive corruption, greed, inefficiency and ineptitude.
24 July 2024
A historic decision, but can Kamala Harris beat Trump?
Dropping out of the US election race, Biden endorsed his Vice-President Kamala Harris, who has risen more to the spotlight in the last year
24 July 2024
What lies ahead for the nation
The students’ awakening was unsurprising for those with some political sensibility left.
24 July 2024
Money laundering and its effect on Bangladesh’s inflation
Inflation, which erodes the purchasing power for consumers as well as businesses, happens in two ways.
24 July 2024
Govt failed to handle the situation properly
The government handled the issue from an egoistic stance, and made several wrong decisions while tackling the situation
24 July 2024
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
Protests, deaths and a collective breakdown
It is a special kind of horror to see the semi-abstract theories you studied for your semi-abstract major come to life, and begin to apply to events 20 minutes away from you.
23 July 2024
Move away from blame game and confrontational power politics
The Appellate Division verdict of July 21 has opened the scope for resolution of the main issue around the demands coming from the quota reform movement.
22 July 2024
Did we have to pay such a heavy price for this verdict?
The verdict is in. The Appellate Division through its observations has recommended that quotas be restricted to seven percent: five percent for freedom fighters’ descendants, one percent for ethnic minorities, and one percent for people with disabilities.
21 July 2024
What happened in DU on Wednesday
There was smoke everywhere, and I heard gunshots.
19 July 2024