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Kazi Nazrul’s 46th death anniversary today
Cultural Correspondent: Today is the 46th anniversary of the death of the national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. The death anniversary of Nazrul, widely known as the rebel poet, is observedReadMore
Reliance on repression will worsen Lanka crisis
The Lanka government seems prepared to disregard objections of the international human rights organisations that are lobbying for stricter sanctions against the country’s political leadership engaging in human rights violations,ReadMore
South Africa: politics of death
Richard Pithouse: LAST week the tenth anniversary of the massacre of striking miners at Marikana was marked in South Africa. The televised state murder became one of the ruptures inReadMore
Tumultuous US-China relations over the centuries
Touhid Shipar Rafiquzzaman: THE United States, with a GDP of $24.5 trillion and per capita income of $76,000 and China, with a GDP of $19.9 trillion and per capita incomeReadMore
The system is causing food crisis, not the war
Small farmers are the world’s primary food providers. Adele says it’s imperative for policymakers to listen to them, not the big corporate WORSENING harvests, infertile soil and increasing food poverty are affectingReadMore
A hall of mirrors
by Patrick Lawrence: I HAVE long wondered whether our mainstream journalists, correspondents and commentators get dressed each morning in the same locker room, so similarly do they account for things.ReadMore
Afghanistan’s new focus on coal
Taliban-ruled Afghanistan’s new golden age of coal reveals a country that is going back to old-fashioned ways, writes Rashmee Roshan Lall IN THE year since the Americans left Kabul, givingReadMore
We will probably be the last civilisation to collapse
The archaeological remains of past civilisations, including those of the prehistoric Cahokia temple mound complex in Illinois, are sobering reminders of our fate, writes Chris Hedges I AM standing atop aReadMore
