March 17, 2017
Presidential humour and the irony of education
The President of the Republic went public with his academic records, while addressing the 50th convocation of Dhaka University on March 4.
March 10, 2017
Lies make us blind in full sight
If an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, what does a lie for a lie do to us?
March 3, 2017
When the bubble is convinced it's real
An average person measures three and a half times the length of his or her own forearm in height.
February 24, 2017
Will the World Bank eat humble pie?
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.
February 17, 2017
Has the mountain brought forth a mouse?
The appointment of the new Chief Election Commissioner was an elaborate undertaking that had a curious resemblance to the
February 10, 2017
History is asking for an address change
In my student days I worked as a bartender in a nightclub in downtown Washington, D.C.,where my colleague was a bespectacled nerdy-looking Vietnam veteran.
February 3, 2017
A moving martyrdom on a trail track
An assistant technician of Bangladesh Railway did last Friday what nobody does these days. Not since those fateful days of 1971 and some of the political movements in this country when our martyrs laid down their lives for their countrymen. Dying for others has long
January 29, 2017
A heartfelt goodbye to beloved Behrouze bhai
Mirza Ali Behrouze Ispahani, chairman of the Ispahani Group, one of the largest business conglomerates in the country, died as quietly as he lived.
January 27, 2017
Tonu murder trial and the fate of hurricanes
The Observer Effect in science has it that the act of observing will influence the phenomenon being observed. If we're looking for an answer ten months after the brutal killing of a young girl named Sohagi Jahan Tonu, this effect comes closest to explaining what has happened since then.
January 20, 2017
Light things float and heavy things sink
After Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu came to power in 1965, he called himself "The Genius of the Carpathians". He had even