Analysis

No one knows when life's journey comes to an end unless one makes a voluntary but undesirable choice for making it happen. Why do people, particularly those in the prime of youth, think enough is enough and there is no point carrying on? It...

At a time when humanity is undergoing the severest test in the post-World War era, natural calamities too are increasingly claiming scalps across wide swathes of the planet. From Bangladesh to Britain and the Philippines to France, the deat...

It is amazing how people differ from one another in spite of there being so many of them on this planet. Wonder, how a little thumb can have so many variations to make each person distinct from another. There are other differences such as i...

At a time when the Ministry of Agriculture has made a mess of its tree plantation programme, an office attendant of a primary school has shown how love for and dedication to trees can make miracle happen in greening an entire district town....

When child labour in Bangladesh is discussed, the images that usually come to mind are children working in brick kilns, factories, workshops, tea stalls, or roadside shops. Yet beyond these visible sectors lies another vast world where thou...

Bank is a place for the safekeeping of one's money. In the olden days it was the mattress. One reason for this change in behaviour is inflation that chips into the value of money. The rich are now called Crorepatis. In the olden days they w...

Culture in Bangladesh once felt like something you could step into without trying. It was in neighbourhoods, in friendships, in the way people gathered and shared music, literature, and conversations. Now it feels different. Not gone, but c...

A United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report projects that Bangladesh's population will rise from 173.5 million in 2024 to between 230 and 250 million by 2050. The International Labor Organization (ILO) notes that the working-age popu...