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Two visions of Sulh-i Kul: Akbar and Dara Shukoh | The Daily Star

From Elephants to Motor Cars | The Daily Star

The memories hidden inside my grandmother's tureen

Why does Israel target Palestinian children?

Muzharul Islam and his spaces of belonging | The Daily Star

Who Protects Women in Bangladesh's Gig Economy? | The Daily Star

Char Haats: The unequal economics of the chars | The Daily Star

Bazaira Vasha: Dhakaiya Sobbasi and their language | The Daily Star

How the deadly water hyacinth invaded Bengal | The Daily Star

In remembrance of Binod Bihari Chowdhury | The Daily Star

After 1,000 days of war, why peace in Gaza remains out of reach

Salinity in Coastal Bangladesh: A Public Health CrisisSalinity in Coastal Bangladesh: A Public Health Crisis | The Daily Star

Our Disaster, Their Management | The Daily Star

Decolonising the cities to address flood, rain and water | The Daily Star

Deshpriya Jatindra Mohan & Nellie Sengupta | The Daily Star

Dhaka Waterlogging: The Colonial Ruin of Historic Canals | The Daily Star

The rise, decline and revival of Buddhism in Bengal | The Daily Star

Bangladesh China Myanmar Economic Corridor | How Bangladesh should respond to China’s proposed corridor | The Daily Star

Bastille Day and the quiet rise of Bangladesh–France strategic relations | The Daily Star

Administrative Civil Service in Bangladesh: Its legacy and role | The Daily Star

Abdul Karim's discoveries - Origins of modernity in Bengali literature | The Daily Star

Laughter and Thrills: A History of Circus in East Bengal | The Daily Star

Guarding the silences | The Daily Star

For Dhaka's office-goers, rain comes with overtime | The Daily Star

Who benefits from renewed US-Iran hostilities? | The Daily Star

Pachapdi Gazi, the 'Jim Corbett of Bengal', and the truth about Sundarbans 'man-eaters' | The Daily Star

Learning Poverty in Bangladesh: The Education Crisis | The Daily Star

The hands that clean, the Harijans we refuse to see | The Daily Star

Why Childhood Infectious Diseases Persist in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Mohammedan Sporting Club History | How Mohammedan Sporting Club Shaped Muslim Identity in Colonial Bengal | The Daily Star

Mohammedan Sporting Club History | How Mohammedan Sporting Club Shaped Muslim Identity in Colonial Bengal | The Daily Star

Char contracts: Surviving river erosion without the state | The Daily Star

Akeel Bilgrami Secularism Interview | Rethinking secularism in South Asia today | The Daily Star

River History Connecting Bangladesh India China | The untold history of the rivers that connect Bangladesh and Asia | The Daily Star

Bangladesh Personal Data Protection Act | Why Bangladesh's Data Protection Law Fails Citizens | The Daily Star

Why a US-Iran Peace Deal Threatens Israeli Security | The Daily Star

The Legendary Tale of The Bhawal Sannyasi | The Daily Star

A new history of Battala books | The Daily Star

How Heatwaves Affect Workers in Bangladesh | Extreme Heat in Bangladesh: A Labour Rights Crisis | The Daily Star

Historian Richard M Eaton Interview | 'Islamisation in Bengal has no parallel in South Asia' | The Daily Star

What Bangladesh lost with the Baibari Ghar | The Daily Star

The slow death of Lawachara Forest | The Daily Star

Bangladesh US Relations | America at 250 and Bangladesh’s strategic moment | The Daily Star

Bangladesh Myanmar Relations | Why Bangladesh can’t ignore Myanmar’s diplomatic comeback | The Daily Star

How old Bengali advertisements sold the dream of fair skin | The Daily Star

Meghnad Saha, the Dhaka-born scientist who dreamed a technological future | The Daily Star

Revisiting Dhaka’s Treasures | The Daily Star

Bangladesh Football History | The Forgotten History of Football in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Is Bangladesh ready for the future of work? | The Daily Star

AI Impact on Jobs Bangladesh | Is Bangladesh ready for the future of work? | The Daily Star

Kuakata Rakhine Community | The slow disappearance of Kuakata’s Rakhines | The Daily Star

Dhaka’s forgotten WWII story: What soldiers feared more than Japanese bullets | The Daily Star

“Why should I leave?” The Partition in the cinema of Ritwik Ghatak | The Daily Star

Why Solar Power Should Not Be Bangladesh’s Next Expensive Mistake | The Daily Star

Mustafa Monwar and the 1988 Zambia Tour: A Story of Genius | The Daily Star

Consoled by the Brahmaputra: Reflections on the Holey Artisan attack | The Daily Star

Beyond the myths of Aurangzeb: Munis D. Faruqui's fresh perspective | The Daily Star

China Belt and Road Bangladesh | Can the China-Myanmar-Bangladesh Economic Corridor Happen? | The Daily Star

How Fixing the Dhaka Transport System Can Cool the City | The Daily Star

Bangladesh Earthquake Preparedness | Earthquake Preparedness in Bangladesh: Why Drills Matter | The Daily Star

Bangladesh Earthquake Preparedness | Earthquake Preparedness in Bangladesh: Why Drills Matter | The Daily Star

Consoled by the Brahmaputra: Reflections on the Holey Artisan attack | The Daily Star

Bloodless genocide: The allegorical gaze of Ahmed Sofa | The Daily Star

Why Left-Footed Players Are So Valuable in Football | The Daily Star

Why Caesarean Sections Are Rising Rapidly in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

The lost Khoda art of Santals: Tattoos, identity and the legacy of the Santal Hul | The Daily Star

Shreemati Rassundari: The First Bengali Woman to Write an Autobiography | The Daily Star

Dhaka Waterbodies: The Cost of Unplanned Urbanisation | The Daily Star

Yes? Non? Anglo-French power plays in the run-up to Plassey | The Daily Star

When the Santhals rebelled | The Daily Star

The Battle of Plassey: A tale of triumph and betrayal | The Daily Star

Ferdausi Rahman: The Making of a Music Legend | The Daily Star

The Wedding Melodies of Rangpur | The Daily Star

Why Bangladesh’s ‘Look East’ policy matters more than ever | The Daily Star

India Bangladesh Push-Ins Border Crisis | India’s push-ins are not a border problem | The Daily Star

Glimpses of Netaji in East Bengal | The Daily Star

The lost histories of the Bengali Harlem | The Daily Star

Why Technological Progress Isn't Making Us Free | The Daily Star

The real danger in the US-Iran ceasefire | The Daily Star

Why does the bride always leave? Rethinking South Asian marriage | The Daily Star

Bangladesh Prime Minister Beijing Visit | PM Tarique Rahman's China Visit: Economic Needs Drive Bangladesh's Agenda | Bangladesh China Relations Economic Cooperation | The Daily Star

Bangladesh Social Security Budget: Family Card Analysis | The Daily Star

Gandhi’s search for harmony in Noakhali | The Daily Star

The saree I could not give away

Can Pakistan fix its problems at home? | The Daily Star

Political Party Funding: Reforming Democracy in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Where folk memory lives: Inside Kurigram’s Bhawaiya Museum | The Daily Star

What the World Cup means for women in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Echoes of Karbala: A personal journey through Muharram in Old Dhaka

History of Islam in Bengal: A Syncretic Civilisation | The Daily Star

The pen engravers and repairmen of Bangladesh | The Daily Star

The road to Plassey

Will Netanyahu derail Trump's Iran peace deal?

How social media is reshaping the Bangladesh-India border conflict | The Daily Star

How social media is reshaping the Bangladesh-India border conflict | The Daily Star

Dhaka Baiji Culture | The lost world of Dhaka's courtesans and baijis | Dhaka Tawaif Culture | The Daily Star

Graphic modernity: Bengali artists and the politics of book design | The Daily Star

Outcome-Based Education in the Age of Generative AI | The Daily Star

Tree Hospital in Barguna: Preserving memories, nurturing the environment | The Daily Star

The Enduring Enigma of Columbo Sahib! | The Daily Star

Pramila: A Tradition Characterized | The Daily Star

Pramila: A Tradition Characterized | The Daily Star

Bangladesh Türkiye Strategic Partnership | Bangladesh–Türkiye relations: Towards a disciplined strategic partnership | The Daily Star

Bangladesh Türkiye Strategic Partnership | Bangladesh–Türkiye relations: Towards a disciplined strategic partnership | The Daily Star

The Iran ceasefire deal and the limits of American power | The Daily Star

Kamruddin Ahmad: A visionary political thinker we must remember | The Daily Star

Why the Strait of Hormuz reopening won't immediately lower costs

A 300-year-old shrine and the legend of Oggean Thakur | The Daily Star

The cost of conservation in the Sundarbans | The Daily Star

When Britain’s Bengalis stood up to racism | The Daily Star

Leela Nag: A lone tigress who waged war against the status quo | The Daily Star

My father retired. Why can't my mother? | The Daily Star

Urban Animals in Dhaka | Dhaka's forgotten residents: Rethinking our relationship with animals | The Daily Star

Are Bangladesh’s multilingual youth being heard?

Why Fencing the Myanmar Frontier Alone Won't Work | The Daily Star

Wartime treatment: The heroes who saved lives, silently | The Daily Star

Why US-China Containment is Exhausted: A Retrospective | The Daily Star

Why US-China Containment is Exhausted: A Retrospective | The Daily Star

Bangladesh Cottage Industry: Survival Beyond Nostalgia | The Daily Star

An untold history of Bengali migrants in Malaya and Singapore | The Daily Star

Social Media Ban for Children: Will It Work in Bangladesh? | The Daily Star

India Bangladesh Border Crisis | The Real Crisis Behind India-Bangladesh Border Push-ins | The Daily Star

Why is secondary education becoming unaffordable? | The Daily Star

Impact of Sea-Level Rise on the Bengal Delta | The future of Bengal Delta | The Daily Star

500 Years After Babur's Victory | How the Mughal legacy continues to shape South Asia | Mughal Empire Legacy 500 Years | The Daily Star

Trump's US-Iran Ceasefire: The Unsolved Nuclear Dispute | The Dailly Star

The Hidden Cost of Heat: Life in Dhaka's Shyampur Slum | The Daily Star

Why Bangladesh still believes teachers should be poor

Gender and Genocide in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Why is Sandwip missing from the Bay of Bengal’s history? | The Daily Star

Dhaka’s courtesans and baijis: A forgotten chapter of Dhaka’s cultural history | The Daily Star

US-Iran Deal: Why the Diplomatic Breakthrough Stalled | The Daily Star

Why Bangladesh keeps suffering from an epidemic of bad projects | The Daily Star

US Congress Moves to Merge Military with Israel: What to Know | The Daily Star

Ghosts, gods, and swadeshi pride | The Daily Star

The Forgotten Revolutionary | The Daily Star

The Forgotten Revolutionary | The Daily Star

Tamam Na Sud | The Daily Star

Why AI cannot be left unsupervised | The Daily Star

HIDDEN ARCHITECTURE OF GSOMIA AND ACSA | Bangladesh’s strategic dilemma in the Bay of Bengal | The Daily Star

A visionary who elevated Dhaka University to global renown | The Daily Star

The long transformation of rural Bangladesh| The Daily Star

The killing of Sonadia’s mangroves: An eyewitness account| The killing of Sonadia’s mangroves: An eyewitness account | The Daily Star

Can migration help win a World Cup? | The Daily Star

Do Mamata and the Trinamool Congress have a political future? | The Daily Star

Reforming the Islamic Banking Model for Genuine Equity | The Daily Star

The future of a Sundarbans tigress | The Daily Star

Abul Hashim and Revisiting the United Bengal Plan (1946-47) | The Daily Star

Have You Eaten? Finding Echoes of China in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Have You Eaten? Finding Echoes of China in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Have You Eaten? Finding Echoes of China in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

No girl should grow up without this knowledge | The Daily Star

The Tale of Ramna Racecourse | The Daily Star

A crime history of Bengal: When rivers became a haven for dacoits | The Daily Star

Why the Ganges Barrage Project Threatens Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Reels Addiction: How Short-Form Videos Change Your Brain | The Daily Star

Causes of Child Sexual Abuse | Why do some men sexually abuse children? | The Daily Star

Mohajir manuscripts: Field notes from Dhaka Aliya Madrasa | The Daily Star

Australian involvement in the Bangladesh Liberation War | The Daily Star

FIFA World Cup 2026 Vs 1994 Comparison | World Cup 2026: How the Tournament Has Evolved Since 1994 | The Daily Star

Donald Trump, the Buffalo, and the Breakdown of Political Naming | The Daily Star

Why more people are choosing to stay single | The Daily Star

The making of India’s Bengali Muslim problem | The Daily Star

Mohajir manuscripts: Field notes from Dhaka Aliya Madrasa | The Daily Star

Public health is failing, act now

Jackfruit: Bangladesh’s forgotten superfruit | The Daily Star

Bengal’s Fishermen: Through War, Famine and Partition | The Daily Star

The Truth About Islamic Banking Profits | The Daily Star

Historic Six-Point Movement: The photographs they suppressed | The Daily Star

Bangladesh Energy Budget 2026-27 | Bangladesh Energy Budget: Prioritising Sovereignty | The Daily Star

The Legacy of Thomas Bata in Bengal | The Daily Star

How Bangladesh gained global legitimacy

Why you must read Marjane Satrapi to understand Iran | The Daily Star

Tofail Ahmed: A Life of Struggle and Political Legacy | The Daily Star

The tree from which Haribhanga mango originated | The Daily Star

Sandwip and the collapse of Portuguese ambition | The Daily Star

Bridging the Partition through Education | The Daily Star

Can Bangladesh achieve energy sovereignty? | The Daily Star

Bangladesh Energy Independence | Can Bangladesh achieve energy sovereignty? | Bangladesh Energy Security | The Daily Star

The mountain must not fall: Indigenous responses to landslides in Rangamati | The Daily Star

Life and death on Bangladesh’s char islands | The Daily Star

Who will answer for Bangladesh’s ecological wounds? | The Daily Star

Will we learn from the Khan Jahan Ali crocodile tragedy? | The Daily Star

Mustafa Zaman Abbasi: The man who heard music in the wind | The Daily Star

How to rescue Bangladesh from the ambulance mafia | The Daily Star

Studying Abroad Reality: International Student Struggles | The Daily Star

K.A.M. Saaduddin: Architect and activist of anti-imperialist sociology and social movements in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Nurjahan Begum: A life for women’s voices | The Daily Star

Baba Allauddin Khan and the making of a musical lineage | The Daily Star

Bangladeshi Migrants in Saudi Arabia's Pilgrimage Economy | The Daily Star

Can social media be your therapist? | The Daily Star

Bangladeshi Migrants in Saudi Arabia's Pilgrimage Economy | The Daily Star

Bangladesh India Border Push-Ins | Bangladesh-India Border: Is There a Solution to the Push-in Crisis? | The Daily Star

Are Bangladesh’s Biharis truly equal citizens? | The Daily Star

Why does a thinking woman frighten us so deeply? | The Daily Star

Rare images of Dhaka's Gurdwara | The Daily Star

A Palace on the River: Ahsan Manzil | The Daily Star

Bangladesh Cybersecurity Strategy: Navigating Cyberwar | The Daily Star

Abdul Quadir and the lost art of editing | The Daily Star

Rakhal Das Banerji: The Bengali explorer who changed history | The Daily Star

Why Roid stays with you long after the film ends: A Film Analysis | The Daily Star

How earthquakes, disease and war shaped Bengal’s slave trade | The Daily Star

The Padma Barrage: A Dangerous Race for South Asia's Rivers | The Daily Star

Why Ziaur Rahman's Legacy Still Matters in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Tangail Saree Bangladesh | Tangail Saree: The Living Legacy of Bangladesh | The Daily Star

After Baba, Eid was never the same | The Daily Star

Bangladesh Cultural Heritage Protection Challenges | Safeguarding Bangladesh's Cultural Heritage Post-2024 | The Daily Star

Sundarbans Water Crisis Bangladesh | Sundarbans Water Culture: Rituals, Scarcity & Beliefs | The Daily Star

Kolkata Eid Celebration Story | Exploring Kolkata Eid Celebrations Through Mughlai Food | The Daily Star

The quiet lessons of Shital Pati | The Daily Star

Mercy, love, and pluralism: A sufi vision of Islam | The Daily Star

100 days of the BNP government | Bangladesh is still trapped in a cycle of injustice | The Daily Star

Bangladesh Geopolitics: The Cost of a Divided World | The Daily Star

Beyond the Loom: How Jamdani Preserves Peace and Heritage | The Daily Star

Hair oil, bumblebees, and the lost world of Bengali advertising art | The Daily Star

The tale of some rare portraits from Nazrul’s final days | The Daily Star

Tuning the melody of Baul songs into peace education | The Daily Star

Why Bangladesh must pivot to renewable energy now | The Daily Star

Shreemati Rassundari and the making of the first autobiography by a Bengali woman | The Daily Star

The art of staying calm in an angry world | The Daily Star

Syed Mujtaba Ali between Bengal and Afghanistan | The Daily Star

The OpenAI–Musk dispute: Who controls the future of AI? | The Daily Star

US-Bangladesh Trade Agreement: A New Era for Garment Exports | The Daily Star

Nabayug: Nazrul’s radical pen and Fazlul Huq’s leadership | The Daily Star

Symbolic and Imaginary in Nazrul Islam

East Bengal’s victory and the memory of lost homes | The Daily Star

Why both Trump and Putin felt compelled to visit Beijing | The Daily Star

Reading Nazrul in an age of inequality | The Daily Star

The stolen haq of Qurbani hides | The Daily Star

1947 Partition of India: Memory in Bangla Literature | The Daily Star

Beyond kaanta-taar: Rethinking life at the Bangladesh–India border | The Daily Star

The untold suffering of Bangladeshi workers during Hajj | The Daily Star

Sea widows: When fishermen never return from the sea | The Daily Star

The Great Bangladeshi Cattle Reality Show | The Daily Star

Can Bangladesh save its haor food bowl?

India-Bangladesh Border: A Thousand Tiny Cuts | The Daily Star

A solitary Eid in the dream country | The Daily Star

The Great Bangladeshi Cattle Reality Show | The Daily Star

Churchill and India Manipulation or Betrayal? | The Daily Star

Indelible Imprints: The Genius from Khulna | The Daily Star

Zoom Bangladesh School: A Beacon of Hope for Rangpur's Street Children | The Daily Star

Why Rape Cases Fail in Bangladesh: A Systemic Crisis | The Daily Star

Tagore’s Dan Pratidan and the colonial remaking of Bengal’s moral world | The Daily Star

An Indefatigable Crusader: Dr Syud Hossain | The Daily Star

How Bengal discovered Japan: A 150-year chronicle | The Daily Star

The saga of an Armenian family of Old Dhaka

British Colonial Architecture in Bengal | The Daily Star

Tagore's Dan Pratidan and the politics of reciprocation in colonial Bengal | The Daily Star

“Will to survive against poverty and nature is at the core of my film” | The Daily Star

Before you sip your tea, remember Chandpur 1921 | The Daily Star

What Bangladesh should understand about the Arakan Army’s Way of Rakhita doctrine | The Daily Star

Mulluke Cholo: The 105-Year Struggle of Tea Workers | The Daily Star

Padma Barrage Bangladesh Controversy | Why the Padma Barrage Could Deepen Bangladesh's Water Crisis | Ganges Barrage Environmental Impact Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Clay toys lose ground as plastic dominates childhood | The Daily Star

The puppets we become: Reading Manik Bandopadhyay in 2026 | The Daily Star

The 1971 war, caste, citizenship and a war memorial in Tharparkar | The Daily Star

Legacy of the Kumar of Bhawal | The Daily Star

Memories of Indigo Rebellion and the question of national identity | The Daily Star

The Hunt for Iran's Uranium: A Geopolitical Holy Grail | The Daily Star

Kaarina Kaisar’s death and the politics of cruelty | The Daily Star

The forgotten art of Bengali advertising | The Daily Star

Does the US-Bangladesh trade deal mirror colonial economics? | The Daily Star

What is the ‘Thucydides trap’ Xi warned Trump about? | The Daily Star

Anti-colonial movements as passive revolution: Abdur Razzaq’s insights on 1947 | The Daily Star

Munshi Meherullah of Jessore and religious identity in 19th century Bengal | The Daily Star

Who Will Stop Killings at the Bangladesh–India Border? | The Daily Star

Why Haor Management Fails: Expert Ainun Nishat Explains | The Daily Star

How secular is the orna? | The Daily Star

Sword fighting in my head: On writing, morality and struggle to remain human | The Daily Star

Re-reading Nizamuddin Auliya in history and memory | The Daily Star

Challenges Faced By Women Drivers In Bangladesh | The Long Road for Women Drivers in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Anisuzzaman, the unexpected heir | The Daily Star

Revisiting the Bengal Famine of 1943 | The Daily Star

Mrinal Sen and the Politics of Bengali Cinema | The Daily Star

The newly urban woman in Mrinal Sen's cinema | The Daily Star

Only Connect: The Radical Empathy of Mrinal Sen | The Daily Star

Impact Of Donald Trump Xi Jinping Summit 2026 | Can the Xi-Trump summit prevent a new Cold War? | China-US Relations: Why Cooperation is Essential | The Daily Star

Who Speaks for the Tiger Widows of the Sundarbans? | The Daily Star

Rethinking the origins of Bongabdo through Bengal’s ecological civilisation | The Daily Star

What Trump-Xi summit means for Bangladesh

Haor Region Crisis: Why Farmers Need More Than Short-Term Aid | The Daily Star

The Petrodollar’s Strait of Hormuz Moment | The Daily Star

Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia | The Daily Star

The Unforgettable Suhrawardys of Bengal | The Daily Star

The Sinking Haors: Why Swamp Forests are Vital for Bhati-Bangla | The Daily Star

Behind the bright bangles of Dhaka | The Daily Star

Bangladesh China Policy | Rethinking Bangladesh's China Policy: A 'Bangladesh First' Approach | Bangladesh China Relations | The Daily Star

Haor All-Weather Road Controversy | Why Haor Infrastructure is Destroying Bangladesh's Wetlands | The Daily Star

Photographing Muslim women: How Sufia Kamal broke the camera taboo | The Daily Star

The forgotten front: Rumour, resistance, and the uprising of 1857 in Eastern Bengal | The Daily Star

What Bangladesh should understand about Iran today| The Daily Star

The Saudi–Emirati cold war and what it means for Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Why India and Pakistan Still Cannot Talk: A Security Analysis | The Daily Star

A brief introduction to BENGAL'S GASTRONOMIC HISTORY | The Daily Star

Badshah-ka Takth and the gem of Bengal, Kusumba Mosque | The Daily Star

Why India and Pakistan Still Cannot Talk: A Security Analysis | The Daily Star

The Burma we imagined in Bengali literature | The Daily Star

When the smart battlefield turns blind: AI’s snag in the Iran war | The Daily Star

How Asia negotiated with Washington while Bangladesh lost out | The Daily Star

Monsoon Impact on Coastal Bangladesh | Living on the edge: How monsoon turns coastal life into survival | The Daily Star

The rise and fall of the Dutch in Dhaka | The Daily Star

Soolteen Sahib of Dhaka | The Daily Star

Reading power: How everyday texts shaped life under the British Empire | The Daily Star

BJP’s West Bengal Victory: What It Means for Bangladesh | The Daily Star

The disagreements over presidential power and state religion | The Daily Star

Why are Bangladesh’s mothers still going hungry? | The Daily Star

The Dhaka Masterpiece Paintings | The Daily Star

West Bengal’s election shift: Can it unlock the Teesta impasse? | The Daily Star

The lost art of coffeehouse conversations| The Daily Star

The Zoffany Paintings of Dhaka: A Historical Discovery | The Daily Star

Penny Universities: The Lost Art of Coffeehouse Conversations | The Daily Star

The Modi-Shah Machine and the Making of Opposition-Free India | The Daily Star

Football and nationalisms in Bengal | The Daily Star

Nehrus, Mians, and the lost tradition of Hindu-Muslim political coexistence | The Daily Star

The Rabindranath We Have Not Yet Claimed | The Daily Star

Tagore’s radical vision for rural Bengal | The Daily Star

Bengali Muslims and their identity: From fusion to confusion | The Daily Star

Balancing Ties with India and Pakistan: A Strategy for Bangladesh | The Daily Star

The alchemy of sweet-making in Bengal | The Daily Star

Waste Management in Bangladesh: A Path to a Cleaner Future | The Daily Star

History of the Greek community in Dhaka | The Daily Star

Pritilata Waddedar: Politics of remembrance | The Daily Star

Chittagong, before Chittagong: An early history | The Daily Star

Why Bangladesh and China Need New Connectivity Routes | The Daily Star

How not to use AI in children’s education | The Daily Star

We Wish to Inform You: Censorship in Bangladesh (1972-2024)

Language, empire, and the illusion of historical inevitability | The Daily Star

The making of Pritilata Waddedar | The Daily Star

India’s Top-Heavy Boom and Bangladesh’s Lesson | The Daily Star

Raghu Rai: When life performs for the camera | The Daily Star

Haor farmers are dying, why does no one care? | The Daily Star

Why Bangladesh and China need new connectivity routes | The Daily Star

Art and odyssey of female cartoonists in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

‘The Fourth Estate will not survive unless defended’ | The Daily Star

Why political cartoons are dying in Bangladesh

Why Bangladesh doesn’t need to pick sides for energy security | The Daily Star

Why Bangladesh doesn’t need to pick sides for energy security | The Daily Star

Bangladesh–US trade deal and the test of strategic autonomy | The Daily Star

Revisiting Satyajit Ray in the age of noise | The Daily Star

Ray and His Political Films | The Daily Star

Satyajit Ray: The Man Who Found the Universe in a Dewdrop | The Daily Star

Satyajit Ray’s ‘Tagore’ Films | The Daily Star

Bangladesh’s New Anti-Cyberbullying Cell: A Blueprint for Success | The Daily Star

A closer look at Bangladesh’s new labour law: Gains and gaps

Beyond reform: Securing dignity for Bangladesh’s workers | The Daily Star

Who counts as a worker? | The Daily Star

Why Rana Plaza Survivors Are Still Protesting 13 Years Later | The Daily Star

What the government can really do for returnee women migrants | The Daily Star

The hands that clean, the Harijans we refuse to see | The Daily Star

Bound by dadan | The Daily Star

Fish stocks collapse in the Bay of Bengal, fishermen at risk | The Daily Star

A wetland losing its farmers | The Daily Star

Insights from Melbourne and Dhaka| The Daily Star

Those who remain invisible in Bangladesh’s political imagination | The Daily Star

“Don’t reduce garment workers to victims—recognise their struggles” | The Daily Star

The weight of untouchability: Rabidas community in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Justice at Work for All | Bangladesh Labour Rights, Wage Struggles and May Day Debate | The Daily Star

Fight for Justice | Bangladesh Labour History (1881 - 2026)

Between flexibility and uncertainty: The lives behind Dhaka’s food delivery| The Daily Star

Servants of an algorithm: May Day and the fight for the South Asian digital working class | The Daily Star

Bengali and Non-Bengali Riots at Karnaphuli Paper Mills | The Daily Star

The Unseen Struggles of ATM Security Guards in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Fixing a labour justice system that fails workers | The Daily Star

The water we wear: Why “No Shopping Day” matters| The Daily Star

AI Cannot Fix the Bangladesh Learning Gap Alone | The Daily Star

| Reading Hafez in the Hormuz crisis| The Daily Star

The Christmas the Kolis took to cricket | The Daily Star

The poet of physical rhymes

A glimpse into the formative years of Fazlul Huq | The Daily Star

The making of democratic Bengal: Fazlul Huq’s KPP and 1937 election | The Daily Star

Who is left behind? | The Daily Star

Career Breaks: A Systemic Flaw for 96 Million Women | The Daily Star

Why was Sher-e-Bangla so popular? | The Daily Star

Sher-e-Bangla and his political rivals | The Daily Star

My discovery of Sher-e-Bangla | The Daily Star

Fazlul Huq and the Politics of Undivided Bengal | The Daily Star

A new reading of Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah and Sonargaon’s independence The Daily Star

Why the Iran-Israel-US war will not stop with ceasefires | The Daily Star

The Islamabad paradox: What middle powers can learn from Pakistan | The Daily Star

A history of assassination attempts on US leaders| The Daily Star

Calcutta’s Muslims after Partition | The Daily Star

Bishop Heber in Dhaka,1824 | The Daily Star

Zero-waste communities thrive while incinerator plans loom| The Daily Star

Raghu Rai: The man behind the lens | The Daily Star

Why our energy future keeps slipping away | The Daily Star

Khulna 144th Founding Anniversary Celebration | Khulna at 144: A city of fading glory and enduring grace | The Daily Star

The untold history of horses in South Asia | The Daily Star

The electrostate and its limits: China’s rise in a hydrocarbon world | The Daily Star

ALAMGIR KABIR: The conscience whipper | The Daily Star

Why our energy future keeps slipping away

Human Cost of Industry

Rana Plaza’s haunting echo: What has changed and what must change | The Daily Star

Not just garment factories, all workplaces must be safe | The Daily Star

Compensation falls short and fails workers, it must change | The Daily Star

Beyond compliance, towards care | The Daily Star

Rana Plaza Collapse Justice Bangladesh | Rana Plaza, 13 years on: No justice, no memory | Rana Plaza Victims Justice | The Daily Star

Building a nation in print: Paper, textbooks, and publishing in East Pakistan | The Daily Star

The Early History of Bengali Printing: A Historical Overview | The Daily Star

The untold story of Franklin Book Dhaka: In the shadow of the cold war | The Daily Star

Governance Reform: Anti-Corruption Strategies for the BNP | The Daily Star

The Hormuz shock and the cost of India-Pakistan isolation | The Daily Star

Virtual migration: A new path for Bangladesh’s digital future | The Daily Star

Are your thoughts, feelings and actions really your own? | The Daily Star

Why You Should Electrify Your Kitchen for a Safer Home | The Daily Star

Corruption control: Asian best practices and lessons for the BNP government | The Daily Star

The Hormuz shock and the cost of India-Pakistan isolation | The Daily Star

Virtual migration: A new path for Bangladesh’s digital future | The Daily Star

Are your thoughts, feelings and actions really your own? | The Daily Star

The fog over US-Iran peace talks | The Daily Star

Hurt sentiments and majoritarian politics: South Asia’s crisis of secularism | The Daily Star

Returnee Women Migrants' Struggle in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Lost magic of NCTB textbooks | The Daily Star

Maleka Khan: A guardian of memory

Trump's 2025 Tariffs: Economic Impact on US Prices & GDP | The Daily Star

Hurt sentiments and majoritarian politics: South Asia’s crisis of secularism | The Daily Star

Haor Waterlogging: Is a Sluice Gate the Answer? | The Daily Star

However it ends, the Iran war will change the world| The Daily Star

Who are Bengalis? | The Daily Star

17th Century Bengal: Delta Shifts, Slave Raids & Growth | The Daily Star

Early Barristers from East Bengal | The Daily Star

Dhaka's metro rail: Mass transit solution or missed opportunity? | The Daily Star

Zobaida Khatun Chowdhury: A life carved in courage | The Daily Star

Myanmar’s recent election and what it means for Bangladesh | The Daily Star

US Naval Blockade of Strait of Hormuz | How the US naval blockade can accelerate multipolar global order | The Daily Star

Armenian heritage in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Why Trump’s ‘Jesus moment’ ended in deletion | The Daily Star

Rose Garden: A history of passion and pride | The Daily Star

Roots and rules: The folk games of Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Sexual Harassment in Bangladesh: Laws & Workplace Reality | TDS

Rana Plaza, 13 years on: No justice, no memory | The Daily Star

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Mujibnagar Govt Oath: The Secret Story of April 17, 1971 | The Daily Star

Bangladesh speaks to the world | The Daily Star

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The Pain of Water | The Daily Star

How Iran sustained its military capacity amid US–Israeli attacks | The Daily Star

Adaitwa Mallabarman - An author of the soil | The Daily Star

When the river remembered: The vanishing world of Bangladesh's old folk festivals | The Daily Star

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Chakma New Year Celebration Bizu | Bizu: A celebration of blooms, beginning, and bounty | The Daily Star

Bhawaiya: Songs of desire and defiance | The Daily Star

Riddles and rhymes that reveal the past | The Daily Star

The making of folk poet Jasimuddin | The Daily Star

Folkloric Bangladesh | The Daily Star

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How rivers and rural life shape Bangla folk music | The Daily Star

Wera Saether: The Norwegian voice of Bengali folk music | The Daily Star

A song for the soul | The Daily Star

The dawn of Islamic songs in Bengal | The Daily Star

In the name of Lalon | The Daily Star

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Quamrul’s Bengal | The Daily Star

Toys and simpler times | The Daily Star

Pahela Boishakh in Atlanta: How expatriates celebrate | The Daily Star

Emergence of Bengali New Year and Calender | The Daily Star

The power of tolerance over bigotry | The Daily Star

How Asha Bhosle became the voice that refused every box | The Daily Star

Nakshi Kantha History | The Nakshi Kantha: Tradition and transformation | The Daily Star

US-Iran peace talks fail, what now? | The Daily Star

Bangladesh must build strong relations with Iran | The Daily Star

The painted cosmology of Tikoil village | The Daily Star

How Bangladesh can tackle the current energy crisis | The Daily Star

The wake of war: Costs for civilisation | The Daily Star

When “America First” policy translates into “China First” outcome in a new Cold War | The Daily Star

Learning to love the hyphen: Bangladeshi-American | The Daily Star

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Madrasas in Bengal: A legacy of learning and the challenge of change | The Daily Star

The proclamation that gave Bangladesh its statehood | The Daily Star

Reviving Bengal’s oldest songs: The Charyapada today | The Daily Star

Dhaka's Tesla: Technological upgrade or poverty trap? | The Daily Star

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The fragile beauty of our indigenous tongues | The Daily Star

How the British used clothing to shape colonial India | The Daily Star

Language, power, and the erasure of Kol | The Daily Star

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America’s war crimes | The Daily Star

Organic vs Natural Farming: Are We Just Feeding a Market? | TDS

Jamdani as the battleground | The Daily Star

Trump’s Iran war and the new politics of religion | The Daily Star

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Annapurna Devi and the gendered silences of classical music | The Daily Star

Online censorship and algospeak: Confusifying the masses with newfangled linguification | The Daily Star

Historian Richard M Eaton Interview | 'Islamisation in Bengal has no parallel in South Asia' | The Daily Star

Kedarnath Majumdar: The historian history forgot | The Daily Star

Measles outbreak: Stop the blame game, start saving lives | The Daily Star

Amid an uncertain Middle East, Bangladesh must rethink its migration strategy | The Daily Star

Mapping Bangladesh’s defence future | The Daily Star

Netanyahu’s world: Enemies, obsessions, and endless war | The Daily Star

Akeel Bilgrami Secularism Interview | Rethinking secularism in South Asia today | The Daily Star

Forgotten on the coast: The Jaldas caught between two disasters | The Daily Star

Life along a dying Teesta | The Daily Star

Hope is like an art | The Daily Star

Daughters of Abrahamic faith: Scriptural narratives on women in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam | The Daily Star

Banglay Bidroho: A rare collection of Liberation War paintings | The Daily Star

Garment Workers' Productivity Myth Debunked | The Daily Star

Can 12 Angry Men teach architecture students how to think? | The Daily Star

The Crisis of Democracy: How It Silently Declines | The Daily Star

Polythene Ban Failure Fuels Flood Risk in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

In the frozen kingdom: My Antarctic expedition | The Daily Star

Once again the debate over Bengali nationalism | The Daily Star

Time for a third language in Bangladesh’s schools? | The Daily Star

Why Bangladesh cannot afford to waste its food | The Daily Star

Does South Asia need secularism? | The Daily Star

Waiting out the Iran war: Doha diary II | The Daily Star

Abolish discriminatory inheritance laws now | The Daily Star

Online abuse is now a national crisis: Time to act | The Daily Star

Gen Z and the erasure of the July 2024 uprising in Bangladesh: From événement to palimpsest | The Daily Star

Donald Trump Iran War Reaction | How Trump is destroying the international order | The Daily Star

The US and Israel cannot achieve strategic victory | The Daily Star

How Pakistan saw 1971: Inside the Hamoodur Rehman Commission Report | The Daily Star

Beyond Acacia and Eucalyptus: Rethinking forest restoration in Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Ten languages lost, countless stories gone | The Daily Star

The Biryani excavation | Biryani History | The Daily Star

Did Jinnah lose faith in the Two-Nation Theory after 1947? | The Daily Star

The black flag at Rajshahi and the officer who chose conscience | The Daily Star

Operation Searchlight in Dhaka - The Daily Star

Echoes of Anne Frank in Swati’s war diary | The Daily Star

Prelude to an order for genocide | The Daily Star

The naval hero who envisioned a nation | The Daily Star

Simon John Dring 1971 Bangladesh | Genesis of a genocide report | Dhaka Genocide 1971 News Coverage | The Daily Star

At Karl Marx’s grave on his death anniversary | The Daily Star

Bangladesh Delta Plan Challenges And Reality | The Bangladesh delta plan: Between certainty and reality | The Daily Star

Celebrating Eid: Thousand years of history in three embraces | The Daily Star

Historical glimpses of Eid processions in Dhaka | The Daily Star

The Gurukul Legacy: The lost dialogue between teacher and student | The Daily Star

My Mother’s Letter During the Liberation War | The Daily Star

Bangabandhu and the world | The Daily Star

Bangabandhu’s strategy and our independence | The Daily Star

1971 in literature: Independence in Bangladesh, crisis in Pakistan | The Daily Star

Typhoid in Bangladesh: A persistent public health challenge | The Daily Star

Doha diary: A historian amid the Iran war | The Daily Star

Power, risk, and readiness: The real test of Bangladesh's nuclear moment | The Daily Star

American doctors who exposed the Nixon-Kissinger lies | The Daily Star

Echoes of exile: Remembering 1971, confronting the Rohingya crisis | The Daily Star

Public lands, patriarchal rules | The Daily Star

Birangona Women of Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Beyond the panic at the petrol pump | The Daily Star

Bangladesh Cyber Security Risks | Codes to Decode: Cyber risks for Bangladesh when balancing great power rivalry | The Daily Star

Why Bangladesh should use FDI as a foreign policy strategy | The Daily Star

Women as non-citizens in Bangladesh — and why the future must be feminist | The Daily Star

Is the Middle East’s “rupture” becoming global? | The Daily Star

Endgames and lessons for Bangladesh | The Daily Star

The last echo of Kui | The Daily Star

Who produces the workers? | The Daily Star

The family card: Universal promise or targeted program? | The Daily Star

Pakistan Afghanistan Conflict 2026 | What the Pakistan–Afghanistan conflict means for Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Iran US Israel War News | Iran’s new leader ‍and Trump’s mixed messaging: Can anyone really win the war? | The Daily Star

Unequal homes | The Daily Star

Online abuse is now a national crisis: Time to act | The Daily Star

Why Bangladesh's new government faces an old narrative trap | The Daily Star

Break barriers to women’s economic power | The Daily Star

Tribunals on trial | The Daily Star

What is the end-game in the US-Iran-Israel war? | The Daily Star

The Middle East is now in a struggle for a new regional order | The Daily Star

Without a Bangladesh wildlife service, our wildlife has no future | The Daily Star

Voting without access: How the national election failed voters with disabilities | The Daily Star

The slow suffocation of a city: Dhaka’s silent COPD burden | The Daily Star

The Australian doctor who witnessed what Bangladesh wanted to forget

Iran’s new leader ‍and Trump’s mixed messaging: Can anyone really win the war? | The Daily Star

Confronting gender inequality in Bangladesh’s labour laws | The Daily Star

Leela Nag: A lone tigress who waged war against the status quo | The Daily Star

The Strait is closed but the opportunity is open | The Daily Star

Why sexual harassment laws fail in practice | The Daily Star