Opinion

What it’s like for Palestinian women living through the Gaza genocide

WHILE the world often focuses on the political and military aspects of Gaza, the daily realities encountered by women are frequently overlooked. Women in Gaza bear heavy burdens, demonstrating remarkable

Unbearable anthropocentrism of our world in data

Christopher Ketcham: HOW billionaire elites help fund an Oxford statistics lab that makes the destruction of Earth look just great. Roughly a decade ago, a 30-year-old economic statistician at Oxford

A tale of two student movements

by Obaidul Hamid : THIS article brings two student movements in Bangladesh together. The juxtaposition will tell many things about the nation and its people — it’s past, present, and

Killings and repression must stop

Badiul Alam Majumdar : ON JUNE 5, a High Court bench declared illegal a government circular issued in 2018, which abolished the 30 per cent quota for the dependents of

Struggle for quality health care

IN BANGLADESH, seeking medical attention can often feel like embarking on a journey fraught with uncertainty and frustration. The process of consulting a doctor, whether in a public hospital or

Common Lanka candidate excites popular imagination

THE presence of a Tamil common candidate would mean that the Tamil voter in the north and east would lose the option of voting for one of the three candidates

Venezuelans to vote on continuing the Bolivarian revolution

THE future of Venezuela’s 25-year-old socialist movement will be decided in the upcoming July 28 election. Venezuelans will go to the polls knowing that a vote for incumbent president Nicolás

The shooting of Donald Trump

Binoy Kampmark: AS A nation, the United States, as if we did not already know, is convulsed. Paranoid and divided, giddy with conspiracy and deranged by a fear of totalitarian