Opinion

Victory march towards Dhaka

The memory of the morning on 16 December, 1971 will remain etched in my mind forever as nothing like this could give me so much joy and peace ever. I looked at the faces around me- simple faces of village folks; wrinkled faces with tears in their eyes, chanting joi Bangla for the first time. Women f...

Opinion

Reforms may consider these

It is incomprehensible that some members of the police force in the United States of America would be devoid of an iota of compassion for human lives when it comes to arresting people of colour. The recent murder of an unarmed African American man named George Floyd by a white police officer na...

National,Front Page

Health experts emphasise behavioural science

The world is going through a crisis which seems very unusual as all the countries are being affected and struggling to face this unseen enemy at this point. We are talking about corona virus pandemic which has already affected at least a million people and killed almost 50 thousand people; a catastr...

Opinion

100 years of gratitude

Bengal has been blessed with the arrival of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a missionary of Biblical dimension, sent by Providence for the deliverance of an oppressed nation – Bengalis. The nation had to wait for 23 years for a leader who could walk up to the formidable oppressors and strike fear in th...

Opinion

Nature strikes back!

It’s payback time, ungra­teful homo sapiens.  Yes, a battered nature now demands payment for all the damages we have done to it in last 4 million years. To save itself from total destruction in the hands of the greedy humans, nature is now poised to strike back with all its might. Do ...

Opinion

Will Trump make a comeback?

A million dollar question indeed and it is now being asked in the corridors of power all over the world. As predicted by the world at large, a manifest party-line vote saw Donald Trump steer out of trouble in the impeachment fiasco. The Democrats did not have a stock of lethal arsenals to win the ba...

Opinion

Serendipity once again?

A new year waits on the other side of tonight. The year 2020 is going through the last minute dress rehearsal to appear with the usual glitz and glam when the clocks will strike 12 midnight. After the unpredictable 2019, it is hoped that the year 2020 will be a year of calm and peace. Or will it be ...

Opinion

Witnessing Victory on Dhaka Narshingdi road

I have had the privilege of witnessing some small battles and then the final push for Victory from various locations on the Dhaka Narshingdi road during the nine-month long liberation war. Some families had taken shelter in some remote villages under Araihazar thana and from our hideouts we had watc...

Opinion

PM’s aphorism smacks of reality

When Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that the tendency to earn unlimited wealth is but a kind of sickness of the mind, she could not have been closer to the truth. Only a person who stands on a strong moral ground can come up with such a brusque comment. No doubt psychologists would agree with her...

Opinion

Ghosts of anti liberation forces active

Failing to tackle the forward march of the government, the defeated forces of 1971 have now taken the strat­egy of disru­pting the essential commodity market across the country.  They believe that if the masses, who live on a tight budget, are made to suffer on a daily basis through esc...

All Section,Education & Culture

Story of an intimate arts space

When you are in Chattogram, and you have nothing better to do after the day-long seminar, you wonder how you could pass the idle time till dinner. You have seen the Patenga Sea Beach a number of times; you have been to the markets to buy some foreign goods. It is at such times of impending boredom y...

Opinion

Our profound respect to four national leaders

Dateline 3 November 1975. The chill of the winter morn increased many fold when the people heard the news of the brutal murder of four front ranking national leaders namely, Tajuddin Ahmed, Syed Nazrul Islam, Capt. M.Mansur Ali and AHM Qamaruzzaman inside Dhaka Central Jail by the same group of army...

Special Supplement

Russel’s innocent eyes seek justice

We have heard of the English phrase ‘Nip in the bud,’ a metaphoric expression, that means  something destroyed before it could fully bloom, like a flower. It also means someone whose life has been cut short by some twist of fate before it could mature to full potential. The sto...

Opinion

‘Samrat’ is no more king now

The crown of ‘Samrat’ of casino  and gambling has been taken away by the law enforcers. After playing cat and mouse game for days, they flushed Ismail Hossain Samrat, Jubo League Dhaka South unit's president, out of a rat hole and handcuffed him like a commoner and sent him to j...

Opinion

Durga in other civilisations

The characteristics and persona of goddess Durga of the Hindu community as we see in Bengal can be found in similar other goddesses like Ishatar and Inanna of ancient Mesopotamia, Akkadian, Babylon or Sumer.  This female deity was of highest order and revered by the people of the time. It was c...

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Born to lead from the front

Sheikh Hasina is now considered by the world community as one of the strongest female political leaders of the world. In fact she ranks among the top five women leaders of the past and present. The world community has watched her grow as a politician in last 20 years and her ability to undertake var...

Opinion

PM’s message is clear and final

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s message implies that no one is beyond the laws of the land.   She has taken a bold and time befitting step to go against the godfathers of corruption and their operatives in the country. A number of them have already been arrested and many more are repo...

Opinion

Tsunami shakes the underworld

The ongo­ing drive agai­nst the ext­remely corrupt elements in the underworld who have been runn­ing illegal casi­nos, gamb­ling dens, liquor stocking, yaba trading and arms dealing, has hit them like a big tsunami to say the least.Law enforcers, imbibed with the ‘zero ...

Opinion

We need more souls like Dr. Ibrahim

I met Prof. Dr. Md. Ibrahim when he was toying with the idea of establishing a diabetes research centre in Dhaka in a small scale. Those days I was working for The Pulse, a medical weekly, owned and edited by late Anwarul Islam Bobby. Dr Ibrahim was a busy man so it took some persuasion on the part ...

Opinion

BNP riddled with paradoxes

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is observing 41 years of its coming into being. Long years if juxtaposed with the age of this republic named Bangladesh. The party came to power on three occasions and left behind an indelible legacy of misrule, mismanagement, immaturity, irresponsibility, conspira...