Naziba Basher

Naziba Basher

The author is a Sub Editor, News Desk at The Daily Star

World bee day: The hum beneath our harvests

In a country where rice paddies stretch endlessly and mustard fields glow golden, the soft hum of bees often fills the air. These tiny creatures -- nature’s most vital workers -- are the quiet pulse beneath our harvests.

1d ago

Is it okay to hurt animals just because they are not human?

Psychologists call this speciesism -- the deeply ingrained, culturally taught prejudice that human life is the only one that matters

6d ago

The monsters we make

On 10 May, a man brutally assaulted two women with a belt in full public view at the Munshiganj river terminal

1w ago

The language of oppression against women

In countless homes across this region and beyond, patriarchy does not always arrive with fists raised.

2w ago

Why rape happens

Sexual desire or show of power?

3w ago

The dark economy of child beggars

Across South Asia, children are trafficked, crippled, and discarded—all so someone can pocket loose change from your car window.

3w ago

A legal notice that proves the need for what it seeks to ban

Sex education is not vulgarity. It is survival

3w ago

Are we truly against discrimination?

“Students Against Discrimination” (SAD) sounded like a dream when we first heard about it.

1m ago
May 20, 2025
May 20, 2025

World bee day: The hum beneath our harvests

In a country where rice paddies stretch endlessly and mustard fields glow golden, the soft hum of bees often fills the air. These tiny creatures -- nature’s most vital workers -- are the quiet pulse beneath our harvests.

May 14, 2025
May 14, 2025

Is it okay to hurt animals just because they are not human?

Psychologists call this speciesism -- the deeply ingrained, culturally taught prejudice that human life is the only one that matters

May 13, 2025
May 13, 2025

The monsters we make

On 10 May, a man brutally assaulted two women with a belt in full public view at the Munshiganj river terminal

May 5, 2025
May 5, 2025

The language of oppression against women

In countless homes across this region and beyond, patriarchy does not always arrive with fists raised.

April 28, 2025
April 28, 2025

Why rape happens

Sexual desire or show of power?

April 27, 2025
April 27, 2025

The dark economy of child beggars

Across South Asia, children are trafficked, crippled, and discarded—all so someone can pocket loose change from your car window.

April 25, 2025
April 25, 2025

A legal notice that proves the need for what it seeks to ban

Sex education is not vulgarity. It is survival

April 10, 2025
April 10, 2025

Are we truly against discrimination?

“Students Against Discrimination” (SAD) sounded like a dream when we first heard about it.

April 5, 2025
April 5, 2025

From struggle to success the Nujiang story

On March 12, the 10-member journalist delegation from Bangladesh, of which I was a part, held a seminar with academicians and professors at the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences in China’s Kunming city.

March 30, 2025
March 30, 2025

The silent struggles of adolescence

Jamie believed his actions were justified because social media had distorted his sense of right and wrong, making him think harming a woman who mistreated him was acceptable