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Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan ndc, psc (Retd)
The writer is Associate Editor, The Daily Star.
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Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil… but do some good, at least!
The police handling of the entire anti-quota episode so far reminds me of the pictorial idiom that one finds displayed in many public places in China and Japan, in particular in the form of three primates popularly known as the thinking sages or the wise apes, each covering three of the five main sensory organs. -
Is there nobody to say enough is enough?
It is a pity that a student organisation with a long democratic tradition has come to be seen as a synonym for violence, tender-grabbing, extortion and such like culpable acts. -
Some are more equal than others in Bangladesh
“An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain—the equality of all men.” -
To win election, seek only people's endorsement
When we are told by our leaders that democracy is in firm ground, maybe a dispassionate look at the matter is in order. The best that one can describe the prevailing democracy is by labelling it as a command democracy displaying monocratic tendencies. It would be hard also to disagree with anyone who chooses to define the present system as one run by a single party. -
Is US on the path to isolationism?
It seems that America under Trump is becoming gradually protectionist, reviving the memories and the experiences of the '20s and '30s era of the last century.