Five hours of work, three hours of gratitude
14 November 2025, 02:00 AM
Opinion
Opinion / Without song, the soul is a desert
To argue that music causes moral decay is not only baseless—it’s dangerous.
22 September 2025, 02:00 AM
Threatening to gang-rape is not just vile, it’s a crime
Threats of repeated sexual violence subtly aim to intimidate and exclude women from public participation spaces
5 September 2025, 03:00 AM
Domestic violence in Bangladesh: When numbers speak of the silence
When we are informed that 133 women have been killed by their husbands in seven months, it is no longer just a number.
23 August 2025, 02:00 AM
Faraaz’s message of embracing humanity
If his life had not been so cruelly cut short, Faraaz Ayaz Hossain would have been a young man just waiting to enter his 30s. Would he, like his brother Zaraif, be working in his grandfather’s business alongside his mother Simeen Rahman, the current CEO of Transcom Group, who has had to live these nine years with the worst burden any parent could carry?
30 June 2025, 18:31 PM
Opinion / The interim government’s silence over misogyny is tragic
There is chaos and dissent in every corner and no one seems to have a grip on anything.
30 May 2025, 03:00 AM
Reaction / Nusraat Faria’s arrest sends an ominous message to the people
This arrest is particularly jarring, even in this current environment where arbitrary murder cases are being filed against suspected AL sympathisers or beneficiaries.
20 May 2025, 06:29 AM
Opinion / Why are young men becoming so violent?
There is a staggering lack of empathy, respect, and compassion in our society, which has seeped into many of our young people.
30 April 2025, 02:00 AM
A Place of Dread
The dejection in 15-year-old Ranjina Khatun Rojoni's face says it all. Physical pain, humiliation, disillusionment and despair are all written in that child's countenance – expressions that tell us how we have failed our children.
12 February 2016, 18:00 PM
The Taste of Freedom
There is a cliché that announces that the 'truth will set you free' but it is probably the most apt description of what happens when you
4 February 2016, 18:00 PM
25 YEARS OF THE DAILY STAR
The birth of The Daily Star and the beginning of democracy in Bangladesh happened almost at the same time. Thus it was an ideal
4 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Caught in the rut of rituals
There are other more solemn occasions where ritualistic behaviour takes on ridiculous proportions. Take the placing of wreaths at memorials on particular days.
8 January 2016, 18:00 PM
An execution's dangerous ripple effect
The execution of Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia, along with 46 other men accused of being involved in terror attacks and Al
4 January 2016, 18:00 PM
The war on our minds
This is the day our oppressors took revenge on us for winning our inevitable freedom. This is the day they came with covered faces, bayonets and shot guns,
13 December 2015, 18:00 PM
The terrifying disappearing act
The thought that citizens of a democratic, independent country can be picked up by law enforcement agents anytime, anywhere, without any kind of warrant and be whisked away into oblivion, is grossly contradictory.
6 December 2015, 18:00 PM
A method in the madness
It's funny how we humans adapt to all kinds of craziness. Only about a year or so we were looking over our shoulder
3 December 2015, 18:00 PM
And what of the dignity of the child?
The Child Bill 2013 is supposed to be in harmony with the CRC and recognises that an individual below 18 is a child. Why then do we still have child marriages? Why then do we have little children working in homes, in biri factories, in garbage dumps and tanneries?
19 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Who will save us from ourselves?
Everything we used to take for granted seems to be threatened. Our right to write our own thoughts, to question repression in the name of religion, to express our outrage over mindless killings, to feel like citizens of a free, independent country.
13 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Boys will not be Boys
On October 13, 15-year-old Kabita Das, a class-X student of Bijoy Sarani High School, was stabbed to death when she came out of school on a lunch break.
30 October 2015, 18:00 PM
A free spirited innovator
One of the most crucial traits of greatness is the ability to retain one's humility despite it. That would probably be an apt description of S M Ali...
16 October 2015, 18:00 PM
SEEING THE INVISIBLE
Mahfuza Akhter Happy, age 11, has suddenly become visible for the wrong reasons. She became newsworthy for being the unfortunate victim of a well-known cricket player and his wife.
9 October 2015, 18:00 PM
No, woman, no cry
Few women have dared to do what Rebecca Lolosoli, a Kenyan, has done. Rejecting the patriarchal Samburu tribe she came from, she has created the ideal village for women where chauvinism, gender violence, and discrimination just do not exist. In fact, men are not allowed to enter the village unless they get permission from the women.
18 September 2015, 18:00 PM
When children kill children
The key lies in what a child is exposed to and for how long. It is important for grown-ups to acknowledge that they are responsible for what their children watch or see.
6 September 2015, 18:00 PM
HEIGHT OF INHUMANITY
A Facebook post chilled me to the bone. It was a news story of 13-year-old Rajon who was beaten mercilessly by a group of men until he succumbed to his injuries.
13 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Opinion: When beasts are unleashed in humans
What kind of perversion of the mind turns a person into an inhuman beast? What kind of society have we created that we allow such horrible things to happen to children, to women, to the physically or mentally disabled, to anyone who is in a position of powerlessness?
13 July 2015, 11:17 AM
Embrace thy enemy?
The whole-sale induction of BNP-Jamaat leaders into the ruling party is the latest startling development in our bizarre political scene. It
11 July 2015, 18:00 PM
The Story of the Dirty Black Road
Contrary to all that can be defined as the reality around me, I do believe in miracles. Call me naïve, delusional or just plain silly, but when you see a really grotesque problem actually being solved in none other than our beloved but impossible-to-live-in Dhaka city, it is akin to divine intervention.
3 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Stand by Them
One of the most uplifting scenes when you are on the streets of any city, village or town, anywhere in the world, is the sight of hordes of girls in crisp school uniforms, a spring in their step, their faces glowing with carefree youth, as they prance forward in the beautiful journey called life.
19 June 2015, 18:00 PM