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Yes, No or Maybe to politics on campus!

Pradosh Mitra

With Bangladesh on a new path, there's a debate currently going on about the need for politics on campus. If we recall, not too long ago, during the last government, desperate efforts were made by the student wing of the then regime to re-establish politics in a Dhaka campus of a renowned public university. At ...

Salvaging football: Cut the rhetoric, show the results!

Pradosh Mitra

The trouble with prolonged mismanagement, corruption and arbitrary practices is that the rot becomes so entrenched that just a few cosmetic changes can never root out the grime. The miserable condition surrounding Bangladesh football continues with little hope of improvement. While at the age level, the men's team have brought back laurels with the women's team becoming ...

Look ahead with optimism and a little less cynicism

Pradosh Mitra

It's been just over a month since a student led mass uprising brought down the previous government. A month later, the event of turbulent July and happening August seem so surreal. Think what you will, the month of August, for some odd reason, appeared long, so long that at the end of it, the beginning of ...

Dear students, thank you for salvaging our values

Pradosh Mitra

Less than a few weeks ago, the country was in ferment! In the face of a nationwide uprising, one order had to fall to make way for a fresh start. Instead of getting into the complex layers of politics, let's concentrate more on the sociological impact of what has happened. Today, Bangladesh is looking forward with ...

With outstretched hands, he defeated death!

Pradosh Mitra

Amidst all the kerfuffle over who said what and how the term Razakar was used callously, we have what most would call moments of defiance in the face of death, armed, only with ideals and self belief. In the image of Abu Sayed with outstretched hands, challenging bullets with an open chest,society finds the dauntless spirit ...

How should we deconstruct the tornado triggered by Toofan?

Pradosh Mitra

The post Eid frenzy across Bangladesh is certainly the ripples created by superstar Shakib Khan starred celluloid extravaganza, Toofan. While millions are going to the cinema halls to watch the film, there are reports of vandalism at cinema hall premises, where disgruntled movie-goers chanted slogans against the hall authority for not being able to contain ...

To hell with scruples!

Pradosh Mitra

The incident which has got the nation transfixedat the moment is the grisly killing of a lawmaker in West Bengal. As days pass, a new dimension seems to open up to the tragedy. From blackmail, to illegal gold trade to along standing feud to the use of honey traps to lure the victim, the murky ...

The pressure that forces a woman to say ‘yes’

Pradosh Mitra

The ongoing debate about harassment and molestation within the academic sphere is related to the tragic death of a university student, who, as per reports and the unfortunate victims social media handle, took her own life in the face of persistent psychological torture, harassment and a negligent attitude of the authority.With the death, the tale ...

Why just blame the trigger-happy teacher?

Pradosh Mitra

The shooting of a student by a teacher at a medical college several days ago opened up a hitherto unknown dimension to gangster culture that has insidiously seeped into societys sub layers. The name of the teacher is not important; the fact that he, in a positon of intellectual authority, should take out a fire ...

Tracing roots to the mistreatment of domestic helps!

Pradosh Mitra

From time to time we come across the news of appalling treatment of young domestic helps in the city with the abuse ranging from physical torture to psychological repression. In recent times, the death of a young house help who fell from the apartment of a journalist has reignited the issue about how domestic supports ...