CROSS TALK
Iron grip of persecution, hunger and discrimination
Experts tell us that it should take another 150 to 170 years to close the gender pay gap around the world. Bad news for the mothers,
How can India win if Bangladesh does not?
Which between the two countries has gained more from Bangladesh prime minister's visit to India this month? The question appears no less intriguing than the long-standing debate over which came first between chicken and egg.
Who's going to save politics from money?
Bees make honey, but it's easier said than done. They have to fly 55,000 miles and visit roughly 2 million flowers to produce a pound of honey.
Cowards strung together in a daisy chain
Shame is thus the flipside of honour, and one can't exist without the other. Shameless people can't be honourable, and honourable people can't be shameless.
Terrorism was never in the DNA
The skein of yarn spun out of the Palestinian struggle, and then got twisted in the relentless Western maneuvering in the Middle East to defend Israel.
Great ideals are ghost lights at night
An increase in elevation lowers air pressure, which makes breathing difficult for a climber. The underwater world becomes increasingly blue and eventually black as a diver goes deeper.
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.
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?
Humanity's abandoned house
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked a seminal question in the parliament on October 6, a question that sublimated the anxiety bubbling inside every sensible heart in this country.
Development without democracy isn't a happy solution
Persistent indigestion may point to the cancer of esophagus, throat or stomach. This prognosis is a sufficient hint for the wise to understand why development without democracy isn't good for a nation.
The critical connection between love and marriage
Fire leaves behind ashes, rain leaves behind stains, and wind leaves behind fallen leaves, but what does love leave in its wake? Some
Wrong side driving is wrong, even for ministers
The founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak, has said that both men are wise when one says something and the other listens.
The Asian stage for the American show
It's not rocket science that the theatre of confrontation is shifting to Asia. The crux of this confrontation is cross-directional. China is pivoting west with its ambition to expand its reach across the continent and towards Europe. The United States, on the other hand, is pivoting east. It's convinced that its future should be entwined with the Asian prosperity instead of being sucked further into the quagmires of the Middle East.
If Ershad lives for another hundred years. . .
Hussein Muhammad Ershad recently told his party men that he would live another hundred years if they were to put him back
The future generations are losing their entitlement
The world is demographically lopsided more than ever before: old people are concentrated in the rich countries, and the rest of the world is crowded with the young. Whoever said that the young shall inherit the earth must think again. As nations get more affluent, their populations also get more aged. In an increasingly prosperous world, the future generations are losing entitlement.
Is Bangladesh politics heading for a deadlock?
One thing certain about politics in Bangladesh is that it has an evolving order in the midst of an emerging chaos. If closely observed, it's right now abiding by Newton's first law of motion. The object at rest stays at rest, while the object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction. One of the assumptions of the law of inertia is that it doesn't change unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
Science for mankind or mankind for science
Science was born out of the human necessity to investigate nature, but now it's also growing on the necessity to investigate human nature.
Where should journalists draw the elusive line?
Our Home Minister last Monday rightfully asked journalists not to publish any news that tarnishes Bangladesh's image or achievements
