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Badiuzzaman Bay
The writer is a member of the editorial team at The Daily Star.
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Kindness can heal what blind faith cannot
I remember there was a time when, owing to my youthful naiveté, I would think that living is more than surviving. -
First transgender madrasa: Let it be the spark for a social revolution
On Friday, November 6, the first madrasa for transgender Muslims in Bangladesh was opened in Dhaka through a private initiative. -
Sarwar’s abduction: A chilling message for journalists
Late in the evening on November 1, 2020, journalist Golam Sarwar, who went missing on October 29, was found unconscious near a canal at Sitakunda, Chattogram. -
The political pendulum is rigged to swing back
In an article in August 2018, I argued that emerging political leaders, because of the unique socioeconomic reality in which they grew up, might be more likely to accept change and less likely to default to norms and practices pursued by their boomer predecessors. -
A Long March to Brutalities
It could have been just another episode in the regular show of police and ruling party men merrily clamping down on the “disturbers of public peace” who love to play with people’s emotions with their pesky ideas and noisy chants of human rights abuses.
