New Age

Samir Amin stands for people

Farooque Chowdhury | Updated at 12:05am on August 15, 2018

SAMIR Amin lives as long as peoples’ revolutionary journey moves forward. And, peoples’ revolutionary march is unending as revolutionary advancement opens path for further revolutionary advancement....
The house that Naipaul built

| Updated at 12:00am on August 14, 2018

The joke, considered by some to be factual, runs like this. An Englishman, an admirer of the descriptive writing of the blind Ved Mehta, goes to a literary party in London in the 1980s because he has heard that Mehta would be there....
Socialism won’t go away because it’s capitalism’s antithesis

Alex Strauss | Updated at 12:00am on August 14, 2018

DESPITE appearances, it is a mistake to conceptualise the workings of capitalism by placing world-changing agency in the hands of the capitalist class....
Making case for Rohingya women

| Updated at 12:00am on August 14, 2018

THE Rohingya people have been thrust into the international spotlight for the most inhumane reasons....
Myanmar lacks sincerity to resolve any issue

| Updated at 12:00am on August 14, 2018

MYANMAR’S proposal to Bangladesh to stop providing aid for 6,000 Rohingyas stranded in the border between the two countries since a military crackdown prompted a mass exodus of the Muslim minority in 2017 sounds absolutely irrational....
Govt should settle quota issue before fresh student protests

| Updated at 12:00am on August 14, 2018

THE students who had held protests since mid-February seeking reforms in the public service recruitment quota,...
Election results could be good for Pakistan, bad for US

| Updated at 12:00am on August 13, 2018

ABOLD new political face has come to power in the recent Pakistani elections, possibly offering the US a new opportunity in that country....
Empire reads history or rationalising end of empire

Deena Stryker | Updated at 12:00am on August 13, 2018

WHEN the Brookings Institute acknowledges it, you know it’s official: the ‘great’ American Century is over....
The symphony of our times

| Updated at 12:00am on August 13, 2018

AS THE spellbinding French novelist Alexandre Dumas wrote in his compelling work, the Count of Monte Cristo, the two most important words are ‘Hope and Wait’....
Legal remedy to medical negligence

Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed | Updated at 12:00am on August 13, 2018

MEDICAL negligence has become a well-liked subject of attention and dialogue in Bangladesh. There is, however, no precise and all-inclusive legislation yet to prevent medical negligence....