Opinion

A confidence-boosting budget

Amid global economic headwinds Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thurs­day unveiled a Tk7,61,785 crore proposed national budget for the 2023–24 fiscal year in the national parliament. It needs to be mentioned that this is the largest-ever budget for Bangladesh and the theme of the budg...

Opinion

The polymath who covers an intrinsic part of our cultural identity

The nation on Sun­day celebrated the 162nd birth anniversary of the poet, philosopher and social thinker Rabindranath Tagore who single-handedly reshaped Bengali literature and music with contextual modernism. Bangla literature would have remained latent to the rest of the world without the magi...

Opinion

Can we forget, forgive barbarities of Pakistan?

Imagine Pakistan asking for forgiveness for the violence it committed to oppress its eastern counterparts. Perhaps it will never happen and the silent tension and hatred between Bangladesh and Pakistan will never be diminished. Never ever any Pakistani leader asked for apology or expressed their con...

Opinion

Journalism in the age of cut, copy and paste

Shongbad, a young journalist working with an esteemed newspaper, was assig­ned by his editor to cover a news event regarding some upcoming development projects of the government. From his perspective the event turned out to be a damp squib and he found himself spending most of the time by noting...