
Ahmede Hussain
CLEAR AS MUD
Editor of The New Anthem (Tranqubar; Delhi; 2009). ahmedehussain@gmail.com
CLEAR AS MUD
Editor of The New Anthem (Tranqubar; Delhi; 2009). ahmedehussain@gmail.com
A few days ago, a Garo woman was abducted from a busy street in Kuril in the capital while she was waiting for transport and was gang raped in a moving microbus.
To make the future even bleaker, the Communist movement in Bangladesh lacks a visionary leadership. The weakening strength of the left is also directly proportional to the rise of rightwing politics.
LAST Tuesday's elections in Dhaka (North and South) and Chittagong city corporation elections have seen some significant mechanisms that the candidates have used to woo the voters.
BORN in the womb of a military dictatorship and in the hands of a notoriously unpredictable leader, Jatya Party (JP) has indeed come a
UNOFFICIAL though it is, the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party's (BNP) decision to participate in the Dhaka and Chittagong City Corporations elections is a trifle surprising.
As I sit at the computer in a bright room washed with sunlight to write this piece, I feel a dark cloak over my heart, as though in some
BANGLADESH cricket team's victory against the much-fancied English side in the ICC Cricket World Cup has given the nation an opportunity to unite behind the national team. It is indeed a rare occasion, the kind that is capable of uniting the country behind a single event.
About 12 years ago, I, a naïve 24-year-old, joined the Star as Staff Writer, and now, it is time to bid it a tearful goodbye.