The author is a Sub Editor, News Desk at The Daily Star
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.
Psychologists call this speciesism -- the deeply ingrained, culturally taught prejudice that human life is the only one that matters
On 10 May, a man brutally assaulted two women with a belt in full public view at the Munshiganj river terminal
In countless homes across this region and beyond, patriarchy does not always arrive with fists raised.
Across South Asia, children are trafficked, crippled, and discarded—all so someone can pocket loose change from your car window.
Sex education is not vulgarity. It is survival
“Students Against Discrimination” (SAD) sounded like a dream when we first heard about it.
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.
Psychologists call this speciesism -- the deeply ingrained, culturally taught prejudice that human life is the only one that matters
On 10 May, a man brutally assaulted two women with a belt in full public view at the Munshiganj river terminal
In countless homes across this region and beyond, patriarchy does not always arrive with fists raised.
Sexual desire or show of power?
Across South Asia, children are trafficked, crippled, and discarded—all so someone can pocket loose change from your car window.
Sex education is not vulgarity. It is survival
“Students Against Discrimination” (SAD) sounded like a dream when we first heard about it.
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.
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