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The first time I saw Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury was in 2007, for a story in our weekend magazine in The Daily Star, on his Nagar Hospital on Mirpur Road, where anyone, no matter how poor could get medical care at subisidised costs.

In the last five years, 26,695 rape cases were reported, with a significant rise in the numbers each year, as cited by an IGP report submitted to the High Court in March 2021. Between January and October this year, 830 women were raped, 39…

I have to admit it, I am becoming a fan of Ananta Jalil. Not because of the explosive, deafening trailer of his latest movie, Din: The Day – a Bangladeshi-Iranian joint venture shot in Iran where AJ ("A Zay") the superhero is performing…

Feminist icon, educator, and author Kamla Bhasin passed away on September 25, 2021, at the age of 75. The Daily Star pays tribute to her rich legacy by reprinting an interview first published in 2016.

Is it really 2022? How did 2021 go so fast? Was it because we had such high expectations and ended up facing one daunting catastrophe after another, that we didn't realise that the days had turned into weeks, weeks into months, and months…

Airports are the most fascinating places in the world. This forced congregation of total strangers from all corners of the world, rushing off to destinations as exotic as Zanzibar or Casablanca—isn't it just wonderful?

How long will the culture of fear come in the way of justice?

The brutal murder of Abrar Fahad brings in light a different angle of Chhatra League politics in Bangladesh. An introspective analysis by SAWM Bangladesh member Aasha Mehrin Amin.

After the teen environment activist Greta Thunberg expressed her utmost anger and frustration to the world leaders in United Nations COP24 Climate Summit, Poland 2019 for the environmental disaster across the globe, Aasha Mehreen Amin, a…

The tragedy of Asma Jahangir's sudden passing away at only 66 years of age, on February 11, is that she has left the world at a time when it needed her most. As a singular voice against injustice and intolerance, she seemed to be one of the…