Mamun Rashid: For economically vulnerable families, an illness can turn into a full-blown crisis. Beyond the direct effects on their short-run incomes, there are wider welfare implications with children’s education
Dr. Atiur Rahman: Prison notes, written in an isolated and gloomy environment, can be touching reflections of deeper human emotions. High-profile political prisoners like Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who usually had
Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland has called Bangladesh’s past one decade’s of development “incredible achievements” saying Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina deserved its “full credit”. “Sheikh Hasina deserves full credit for
My elder brother, James, who was born in 1943 with a genetic chromosomal abnormality, Down Syndrome, and who had a severe learning disability, died in 1999 in the U.K. as
Dr. Atiur Rahman: As we have reported in the earlier pieces of this column, Sheikh Mujib had to face many ordeals in prison. As he was kept in solitary confinement,
Abdul Mannan: No national election in the recent past, let aside US, anywhere else in the democratic world gained so much of attention, all for the wrong reasons and that
Abdul Mannan: No national election in the recent past, let aside US, anywhere else in the democratic world gained so much of attention, all for the wrong reasons and that
Dr. Atiur Rahman: Autobiographies can indeed be touching if written by authors destined to convey the truth. They can be even more attractive if they describe the other people in