I had recently been asked to give a talk about “being an American Muslim in the United States.” Although wary of the uses and abuses of the term, I obliged.

All in a week's work. March has barely started. We already have five men (at least) raping, assaulting and killing the women they thought were below them.

Bangladesh is an overpopulated country, which is burdened with a huge number of unemployed men and women.

The beautiful and blue Rangamati Kaptai Lake, with blooming flowers on its banks and the green mountains on each side, imbues in one a sense of peace.

As far as improbable ideas go, the thought of humans being a spacefaring race with the possibility of colonisation of other planets...

Banksy is in the news again - this time because of the Walled Off Hotel that he designed and financed in the city of West Bank, in Bethlehem.

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International Women's Day is just around the corner. Every year this day brings with it a fresh calculation of the triumphs and losses of the women's movement.

I spent a lot of 2016 grieving. The worlds I belong to were roiled by news-making disaster all through last year. A hate-mongering would-be autocrat ascended to the highest political office in the United States, where I currently live.

Of the Nation Born: The Bangladesh Papers edited by Hameeda Hossain and Amena Mohsin is part of the Zubaan Series on Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia.

I feel like a mermaid. My body tells me I am a man and my soul tells me I am a woman — Heena, 51.

After three months as a migrant domestic worker in Saudi Arabia, Ejjatun Begum from Barisal realised one thing clearly – she had gotten herself into a trap.

WORKSHOP ON “COMBATING DEPRESSION IN WOMEN: LET'S TALK”

It was definitely after office hours when a phone call came and made me panic. The number on my screen was unknown but it was pretty easy to guess where the call came from. The law enforcement bodies have a digit sequence that most journalists in the city are trained to recognise.

A system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it.

On a warm spring afternoon, as I was desperately looking for a vacant rickshaw near the MA Aziz Stadium in Chittagong city, I heard a woman shouting from behind, "Baba! Wait, let me just finish my roti!

Set to reach middle income status by 2021, Bangladesh is at the crossroads of an economy in transition.

The attention span of the regular reader of news these days is about 15 seconds. Beyond the catchy headlines, most people can barely sit through page after page of demoralising stories of death, devastation and, gasp, “stories of public interest”.

In the last few years, our education sector has been facing an inexorable crisis- disclosure of question papers, which is really unfortunate and disgraceful.

March is a month of celebration for every one who believes in the ideals of equality and freedom.