Shamsad Mortuza

The one-year tenure of the Dhaka University’s apex student body, the Dhaka University Central Student Union (Ducsu), has come to an end, and the office bearers have shown eagerness to hand over power to their successors through an election.

In the past, people would view a glacier chunk falling into a lake and causing a river to overflow as a cosmic event or divine act.

There are reasons to be both sad and hopeful about Shahed Sharif Ahmed.

August 25 was observed as the “Ninth Anniversary of Rohingya Genocide Day” in the camps of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh.

Death could not seal the controversies for Jason Arday.

Earlier this month, a national daily reported that at least 325 academic papers published by Bangladeshi researchers in international journals published between 2019 and 2026 had been retracted due to various irregularities, including plagiarism.

It is unfortunate that we are seeing a culture where moral power is exercised arbitrarily, where accusation precedes evidence and power precedes procedure.

Because they could not step away from death, death stepped in for them (apologies to Emily Dickinson)