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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Can we trust PSC with the recruitment of best young minds?
Recent revelations of corruption within the PSC threaten to destroy the trust that generations have placed in this institution.
9 July 2024
Remembering an educationist, artist, and socialite from the yester generation
Asma Abbasi was a personality who epitomised values and a lifestyle that were modern and progressive enough to dwarf many of us from later generations.
9 July 2024
Collective action can save us from a dystopian future
Twelve scholars, social entrepreneurs and advocates write about the IPSP’s new push to put social progress in the global centre stage.
9 July 2024
How a flawed data ecosystem can distort economic reality
The mismatch of export data raises a fundamental question about the precision of economic reporting and its ramifications for Bangladesh's economy.
9 July 2024
Where’s the noose for 'murder caused by negligence'?
Many of us walked past those restaurant corridors on Bailey Road without fire safety measures.
8 July 2024
From lecture halls to the streets: Universities submerged in dual protests
The monsoon rains lash against the paved streets of Dhaka University, but the downpour does little to dampen the fiery spirits on campus.
8 July 2024
Beware of subscription services promising the moon
Companies shouldn’t make their existing services worse to push a subscription model that promises to fix these issues.
8 July 2024
Bangladesh’s way forward to biodiversity conservation
Bangladesh needs to contextualise the global Biodiversity Plan to take it forward over the next decade or so.
8 July 2024
Decisions about teachers made without consulting them
The scheme is not 'universal' as it does not encompass government officials.
8 July 2024
Universal pension scheme aimed at helping people
The goal of the universal pension scheme is to bring all the citizens of Bangladesh under its coverage.
8 July 2024
Are students sympathetic to the teachers' protest?
Teachers rarely show solidarity with students' protests, regardless of their cause or goal.
8 July 2024
The new pension scheme creates further discrimination
We never wanted things to get this far where we had to stop taking classes.
8 July 2024
What options are left for us to fight unbridled corruption?
Unfortunately, all the mechanisms meant to address corruption seem to have been weakened, if not completely destroyed, one after another in recent decades.
7 July 2024
The Prottoy pension scheme will exacerbate brain drain
By potentially making the teaching profession less attractive, the Prottoy scheme risks exacerbating brain drain.
7 July 2024
How to reduce the prevalence and out-of-pocket costs of dengue infections
Data indicates that Dhaka city is at most risk from dengue infections and requires urgent preventive intervention measures.
7 July 2024
Labour's challenge after landslide election win
According to latest reports, the Labour Party has won a landslide victory with 412 seats.
7 July 2024
Freedom fighters’ quota goes against the 1971 spirit
Any argument about the freedom fighters' quota has turned so contentious that the discussion tends to revolve around the advocate more than whatever merit the argument itself might have.
7 July 2024
Mission to China: Is the PM ready to take a bold position on RCEP?
We should be negotiating terms of a partnership where both China and Bangladesh gain something
7 July 2024
No class war from Britain’s most working-class government
The United Kingdom will have a new Labour government whose class composition will be radically different from previous ones.
6 July 2024
The paradox of whitening black money while fighting corruption
Has the government redefined corruption by excluding the concept of black money?
6 July 2024