Mohammad Badrul Ahsan
CROSS TALK
Editor, First News and opinion writer for The Daily Star [email protected]
CROSS TALK
Editor, First News and opinion writer for The Daily Star [email protected]
Experts tell us that it should take another 150 to 170 years to close the gender pay gap around the world. Bad news for the mothers,
Which between the two countries has gained more from Bangladesh prime minister's visit to India this month? The question appears no less intriguing than the long-standing debate over which came first between chicken and egg.
Bees make honey, but it's easier said than done. They have to fly 55,000 miles and visit roughly 2 million flowers to produce a pound of honey.
Shame is thus the flipside of honour, and one can't exist without the other. Shameless people can't be honourable, and honourable people can't be shameless.
The skein of yarn spun out of the Palestinian struggle, and then got twisted in the relentless Western maneuvering in the Middle East to defend Israel.
An increase in elevation lowers air pressure, which makes breathing difficult for a climber. The underwater world becomes increasingly blue and eventually black as a diver goes deeper.
The President of the Republic went public with his academic records, while addressing the 50th convocation of Dhaka University on March 4.
If an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, what does a lie for a lie do to us?
Experts tell us that it should take another 150 to 170 years to close the gender pay gap around the world. Bad news for the mothers,
Which between the two countries has gained more from Bangladesh prime minister's visit to India this month? The question appears no less intriguing than the long-standing debate over which came first between chicken and egg.
Bees make honey, but it's easier said than done. They have to fly 55,000 miles and visit roughly 2 million flowers to produce a pound of honey.
Shame is thus the flipside of honour, and one can't exist without the other. Shameless people can't be honourable, and honourable people can't be shameless.
The skein of yarn spun out of the Palestinian struggle, and then got twisted in the relentless Western maneuvering in the Middle East to defend Israel.
An increase in elevation lowers air pressure, which makes breathing difficult for a climber. The underwater world becomes increasingly blue and eventually black as a diver goes deeper.
The President of the Republic went public with his academic records, while addressing the 50th convocation of Dhaka University on March 4.
If an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, what does a lie for a lie do to us?
An average person measures three and a half times the length of his or her own forearm in height.
It was once a familiar refrain amongst the restaurant-goers in Dhaka that even if one didn'teat or drink anything in a restaurant, one could still end up paying twelve annas for breaking a drinking glass. That saying embodied concerns over the costliness of eating out and its incidental hazards, but eventually acquired a deeper meaning of life. It implies a Kafkaesque helplessness when one has to pay for something without partaking in any of its pleasures.