August 25, 2022
Is the Press Council looking out for journalists' interests?
Will the amended Press Council Act further restrain free press?
August 19, 2022
DS View: Embarrassing the PM to the core
While speaking at an event in Chattogram, last evening (August 18, 2022), our Foreign Minister Abdul Momen, said “I went to India and said Sheikh Hasina’s continuation must be ensured.”
August 19, 2022
Column by Mahfuz Anam: No govt has ever fallen for being self-critical
If we want to stop being lectured by international bodies, then we as a people, and much more so our government, must listen to our own critical voices.
August 12, 2022
‘Walkman Syndrome’ afflicts the AL and our government
Nothing but their own voices reaches them
July 29, 2022
CEC hits the nail on the head, but the wrong nail
“Democracy will die if people don’t vote.” This is a very powerful statement from CEC Kazi Habibul Awal.
July 21, 2022
Column by Mahfuz Anam: Looking at Bangladesh through the minorities’ eyes
Religious tolerance is the most important value which a modern society must instil within itself, and Bangladesh is no exception.
July 1, 2022
Tribute by Mahfuz Anam: A fighter for independent journalism
The fact that Latifur Rahman, Shamim Bhai to us all, is no longer among us still feels unreal.
June 25, 2022
Commentary by Mahfuz Anam: Sheikh Hasina’s ‘finest hour’
Borrowing from the title of the second volume of Winston Churchill’s six-part history of the Second World War, I would like to term the completion of the Padma Bridge as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s “finest hour”.
June 17, 2022
Column by Mahfuz Anam: New assault on the freedom of the press and expression
There is a new assault on the freedom of the press. This time, sadly, it comes from another section of the mass media itself – the television.
June 3, 2022
Column by Mahfuz Anam: Reading into the recent speeches of the US ambassador
There was a time when the US government left no stone unturned to oust the government of President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela.