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Shahriar Feroze

Assistant Editor

Mr. Shahriar Feroze working as Assistant Editor at The Daily Observer

AL, BNP Election Manifestos

Shahriar Feroze

Much suspense thrived in the country's domestic political developments throughout the first 19 days of December. Mudslinging coupled with verbal abuse between the two key political rivals is still continuing, hundreds of nominations have been cancelled in an unprecedented manner, many of the opposition candidates carry on to be harassed , major cities have become ...

Stamp Show Dhaka 2018

Philately is making a comeback

Shahriar Feroze

After good many years, philately in Bangladesh appeared to have made a grand attempt to revive much of its lost glory. The first five days of December marked the event Stamp show Dhaka 2018. A section of the national museum's ground floor was allotted to a number of collectors to exhibit their philatelic items ranging ...

November black, November bright

Shahriar Feroze

While browsing through a pile of old papers, documents and books inside a newspaper vendor's dirty and crammed shop at old Dhaka, this writer suddenly stumbled across an old newspaper. Given the lead news reports published in it, he picked it up with unending curiosity. It was 1975's November 8th issue of the now defunct, ...

Methods, murders and madness

Shahriar Feroze

After over two weeks of nail-biting suspense, the Saudi authorities have finally succumbed to the dirty truth -- Jamal Khashoggi was murdered -- and the gruesome incident took place inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. However, the truth behind the dissident journalist's murder was in the air from the very beginning when he was reported ...

Bachchu’s next album for the ‘next world’

Shahriar Feroze

AB has been transformed to the next stage which is unseen. But I am sure, his experiments with music for his next musical album has begun. Perhaps his next concert is planned for legendary rock stars residing in the other world. We will never know. Death takes no bribes, and even when the legendary rock ...

'Red October' is not 'Red' any longer!!!

Shahriar Feroze

October is back in our lives once more. Does the political slogan "Workers of the world, unite!" ring a bell? It was this simple political slogan that had bonded, united and strengthened the working class of pre-communist Russians -- leading to a massive revolt -- eminently branded as the legendary October Revolution.The revolution led by ...

Sifat Ullah: Insanity unlimited

Shahriar Feroze

That people do crazy things, and go to crazy lengths to draw public attention is not a new phenomenon anywhere around the world. Even six months ago he was unheard of almost in anywhere in Bangladesh. He is reportedly a freedom fighter and a former teacher of Dhaka University. The lunatic this writer is talking ...

Slaughtering animals without piety is not sacrifice

Shahriar Feroze

For the past three years a fearsome rivalry has erupted between a handful of nouveau riche businessmen at my locality, and that stupid rivalry is about, who can afford the biggest and the most expensive sacrificial cattle during the Eid-ul-Azha. The vulgar competition is all about showing of wealth to garner cheap attention of the ...

Japan's ‘tobacco temptation’ in Bangladesh

Shahriar Feroze

I have never faced such colossal contradictions while penning an opinion. Sorry to admit, I have been a regular smoker for nearly two decades. Despite the long list of disadvantages, I still smoke. And I smoke because until something extremely dangerous happen, I will not quit. On that note, I am a typical Bangladeshi. It ...

Can Imran do it?

Shahriar Feroze

For over two decades the world has mostly known him as a playboy cricketer, then for another couple of decades as a politician, and until a miracle stops him he will be the next prime minister of Pakistan. Imran Khan the cricketer turn politician is about to assume power when Pakistan is not actually in ...