A possibly staged viral video from Russia recently showed a humanoid robot answering a customer’s push with punches and kicks.

“No” is not merely a word. It is a management philosophy and, occasionally, a retirement plan.

In many of our offices, the rulebook is treated like the fire extinguisher: displayed prominently, dusted before an audit, and touched only after smoke appears.

Every now and then, Bangladesh produces a rare policy miracle: an authority listens before the public loses its voice. Bangladesh Bank’s latest Bangla QR circulars deserve appreciation for correcting the course.

In Bangladesh, praise is treated like public money: everyone agrees it should circulate, but nobody wants to release it. Tell a colleague he did well, and someone will demand an audit. Compliment a bridge and another citizen will ask which political party issued your membership card. We are generous with criticism, stingy with gratitude and quick to suspicion.

Two neighbours went to a village elder with a dispute. After hearing the first man, the elder said, “You are right”.

Robi now has to give answer to Mahtab's lawsuit