Badiuzzaman Bay
OF MAGIC & MADNESS
Badiuzzaman Bay is Assistant Editor, The Daily Star. He can be reached at [email protected]
OF MAGIC & MADNESS
Badiuzzaman Bay is Assistant Editor, The Daily Star. He can be reached at [email protected]
If the government really wants to control or bring down prices during Ramadan and afterwards, it must be willing to go after its 'own people.'
A government’s job is not to preach about people’s food choices, but to keep food prices stable and reasonably down. When it starts to preach, more often than not it is trying to deflect scrutiny of what it cannot achieve through actions.
In the end, love is a personal matter and it should remain so, regardless of how it comes out on February 14 and in the days that follow.
Mohammad Ali Arafat, the newly appointed state minister for information and broadcasting, in an exclusive interview with The Daily Star.
Politicians provided a steady supply of obnoxious, potentially title-winning examples
BNP's retreat to the back foot amid mass arrests and convictions was as remarkable as it was rapid.
You’ve already met the dummy candidates, aka independents. Now, meet dummy voters.
Awami League has always found justification in the Nietzschean theory of cultivating or “inventing” enemies
If the government really wants to control or bring down prices during Ramadan and afterwards, it must be willing to go after its 'own people.'
A government’s job is not to preach about people’s food choices, but to keep food prices stable and reasonably down. When it starts to preach, more often than not it is trying to deflect scrutiny of what it cannot achieve through actions.
In the end, love is a personal matter and it should remain so, regardless of how it comes out on February 14 and in the days that follow.
Mohammad Ali Arafat, the newly appointed state minister for information and broadcasting, in an exclusive interview with The Daily Star.
Politicians provided a steady supply of obnoxious, potentially title-winning examples
BNP's retreat to the back foot amid mass arrests and convictions was as remarkable as it was rapid.
You’ve already met the dummy candidates, aka independents. Now, meet dummy voters.
Awami League has always found justification in the Nietzschean theory of cultivating or “inventing” enemies
Without political reconciliations, we're headed for another violent, one-sided election
These attacks are at once a political issue, a law enforcement issue, and a human rights issue.