Aasha Mehreen Amin

Aasha Mehreen Amin

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Aasha Mehreen Amin is joint editor at The Daily Star.

Domestic violence in Bangladesh: When numbers speak of the silence

When we are informed that 133 women have been killed by their husbands in seven months, it is no longer just a number.

1w ago

Faraaz’s message of embracing humanity

If his life had not been so cruelly cut short, Faraaz Ayaz Hossain would have been a young man just waiting to enter his 30s. Would he, like his brother Zaraif, be working in his grandfather’s business alongside his mother Simeen Rahman, the current CEO of Transcom Group, who has had to live these nine years with the worst burden any parent could carry?

2m ago

The interim government’s silence over misogyny is tragic

There is chaos and dissent in every corner and no one seems to have a grip on anything.

3m ago

Nusraat Faria’s arrest sends an ominous message to the people

This arrest is particularly jarring, even in this current environment where arbitrary murder cases are being filed against suspected AL sympathisers or beneficiaries.

3m ago

Why are young men becoming so violent?

There is a staggering lack of empathy, respect, and compassion in our society, which has seeped into many of our young people.

4m ago

Digital technology can bring clarity to the July-August atrocities

ITJP's documentary provides evidentiary insights into the July uprising atrocities.

7m ago

Why 2025 is a crucial year for Bangladesh

Let us recap some of the most critical lessons of 2024 as we look forward to 2025.

8m ago

Seeing Bangladesh through Andrew Eagle’s eyes

You didn’t expect someone like Andrew, who would have turned only 50 this December 16, to exit the world so abruptly.

8m ago
October 25, 2024
October 25, 2024

Are we trying to get ‘everything, everywhere, all at once’?

The euphoria of August 5, and the momentous days leading up to it, especially since July 15, are now being overshadowed by a cloud of uncertainty.

October 5, 2024
October 5, 2024

Why did the Khagrachhari school reinstate a known sexual predator?

This incident exposes the added vulnerability of young women and girls when they belong to Indigenous communities.

September 20, 2024
September 20, 2024

Cox’s Bazar attacks reflect a sickness far from being cured

By giving their opinions a religious tag, groups or individuals have managed to get away with vicious assaults on women

September 15, 2024
September 15, 2024

Can we hold onto our precious freedom?

After the stunning fall of an autocratic regime camouflaged in democratic garb, we now have a precious opportunity to reclaim our rights as a people.

September 5, 2024
September 5, 2024

One month after the new beginning

From that pivotal moment on August 5, the subsequent events in the next 30 days have been just as dramatic

August 7, 2024
August 7, 2024

The cadences of a people’s victory

This victory has come at the cost of hundreds of lives of overwhelmingly young people, mostly students.

July 24, 2024
July 24, 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.

July 15, 2024
July 15, 2024

Why must brute force always be the response to student protests?

What could have been resolved through a discussion as expected from any government, ended up being yet another violent suppression of the voices of students

July 5, 2024
July 5, 2024

The incredible ‘goatness’ of being

The town is abuzz about how the astronomical price of a goat led to the opening of a gigantic can of worms

June 14, 2024
June 14, 2024

Is it possible to escape from the seduction of smartphones?

The bug of relentless connectivity to some world or the other has infected us, and there seems to be no cure.