
Aasha Mehreen Amin
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Aasha Mehreen Amin is joint editor at The Daily Star.
NO STRINGS ATTACHED
Aasha Mehreen Amin is joint editor at The Daily Star.
When we are informed that 133 women have been killed by their husbands in seven months, it is no longer just a number.
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?
There is chaos and dissent in every corner and no one seems to have a grip on anything.
This arrest is particularly jarring, even in this current environment where arbitrary murder cases are being filed against suspected AL sympathisers or beneficiaries.
There is a staggering lack of empathy, respect, and compassion in our society, which has seeped into many of our young people.
ITJP's documentary provides evidentiary insights into the July uprising atrocities.
Let us recap some of the most critical lessons of 2024 as we look forward to 2025.
You didn’t expect someone like Andrew, who would have turned only 50 this December 16, to exit the world so abruptly.
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.
This incident exposes the added vulnerability of young women and girls when they belong to Indigenous communities.
By giving their opinions a religious tag, groups or individuals have managed to get away with vicious assaults on women
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.
From that pivotal moment on August 5, the subsequent events in the next 30 days have been just as dramatic
This victory has come at the cost of hundreds of lives of overwhelmingly young people, mostly students.
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.
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
The town is abuzz about how the astronomical price of a goat led to the opening of a gigantic can of worms
The bug of relentless connectivity to some world or the other has infected us, and there seems to be no cure.