The PM must be protected. But who protects the ordinary citizen?
A journalist and a shopkeeper reported threats before they were killed. Their cases demand answers from the police.
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Seven Years Later, I Return to What I Wrote the Day Abrar Fahad Was Killed
Seven years after Abrar Fahad’s killing, I revisit what I wrote that day about campus violence, political labels and the silence that allowed it to continue.
I get Eid off. Do my journalist colleagues get the same for Puja?
If Eid is already built into the newsroom calendar, why should colleagues celebrating Puja and other major festivals have to spend their earned leave?
Manush, tumi emon keno?
We can stop for a bird, hold an umbrella over a stranger and enter a river to save a life. We can also humiliate, hurt and kill. The distance between those two versions of us is sometimes painfully small.
Dear fellow journalists; We report everyone else's fight for fair pay. What about our wage board?
For many journalists, the last wage structure that reached their newsroom dates to 2013. With the Ninth still largely unimplemented, the harder question is whether any new award would actually be enforced.
We are sorry, Tofazzel
For a few minutes, Tofazzel was sitting in a canteen eating rice like anyone else. Someone had to serve him the food. Someone watched him eat. Someone spoke to him. Then he was taken back and beaten again. How does a person do both?
Thank You, Messi
In your farewell message, you said you had given everything. That you had emptied yourself. That there was nothing more to give. That line is difficult to read.
When calling Messi GOAT is no longer enough
Until the 85th minute of Thursday’s semifinal, Argentina were trailing England by a goal, and a spot in the final seemed to be slipping away. The clock seemed to be carrying Lionel Messi away with it.