May 18, 2020
A wake-up call for universal social protection
The coronavirus pandemic has bluntly exposed how a large number of people across the world are susceptible to health and economic shocks.
March 26, 2020
Healthcare in the time of Covid-19
Throughout the world, governments of various countries are taking extraordinary measures to deal with the crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 2, 2020
Powering progress through clean energy
Imagine a 187-feet tall tower with a 55-tonne steel dome on top. At first, it seems like a structure from a future base on the planet Mars. But the Wardenclyffe Tower is not an abstraction from the...
February 26, 2020
Implementing SDG 6: Watering the seeds of development
Nothing is more useful than water. Ironically, hardly anything can be obtained in exchange for water.
February 9, 2020
SDG 5: Going for Girl Power
An episode in UNICEF Bangla-desh’s popular cartoon Meena, the protagonist’s cousin Rita, a 15-year-old girl receives a proposal to marry the village shopkeeper’s son.
February 3, 2020
Ending Ignorance in Bangladesh
In Satyajit Ray’s 1980 dystopian film “Hirok Rajar Deshe” (Kingdom of Diamonds), the king used several measures, such as high taxes, forced labour and brain-washing, to maintain a stranglehold on...
January 26, 2020
Revisiting the Revolutionary Medicine
It was his last semester before graduation. Yet Ernesto Guevara decided to postpone the completion of his medical degree, and instead embarked on an audacious adventure.
January 20, 2020
Implementing SDG 2: Abolishing the ‘appetite’ for hunger
A woman is seen squatting on the ground in front of a large pile of garbage. She is holding a baby whose face appears over her shoulder.
January 16, 2020
Uninstalling Injustice
Let us do an exercise. Clench your fist, and then gently loosen your fingers a little.
April 28, 2019
High interest rate: Is it in the public interest?
Interest rate is a much-talked-about issue as far as savings and investment are concerned.