I want to make a moral appeal to senior academics to be more active in research and publication and to have unwavering commitment to quality work. Their meaningful engagement in research and publication will have a positive impact on the way they teach and on the course content that they transmit to their students. Needless to say, that will help p

Since October 7, 2023, tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian babies, children, women and men have been killed in Gaza. This is robbing the conscientious people of genocide-enabling countries of their national pride. What's more, decades and centuries down the road, it will bring shame on citizens of the countries that have abetted it. Their

There are PhD holders who never forget to put the prefix "Dr" before their names, even in social exchanges. The day they are awarded the doctorate degree, they change all their social media profiles and unmistakably add the magical title of "Dr" to their names. All such longing for praise and glory is perhaps tolerable, but what is

Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian children, women, and men — and maimed and injured many more — in this ongoing genocide that started on 7 October 2023. Israeli bombings have reduced houses, schools, universities, hospitals, and other infrastructures to rubble. Israel has done everything to ruin Amal’s opportunity to receive

For many decades, Israel has been committing small genocides and big genocides — and small massacres and big massacres — against Palestinians and others in the region. The current genocide that started in early October 2023 and still continues is perhaps the cruellest and most revolting as well as most widely reported, thanks to the availabilit

Professor Yunus’ eyes hold the tears of all Bangladeshis who suffered under Hasina’s iron-fisted autocratic regime. I hope he and his colleagues who are now running Bangladesh will continue to remember all the sacrifices people in Bangladesh and in the diaspora made to facilitate a new beginning for us. One major way to do justice to the tears

If feminist groups in Bangladesh choose to remain hushed on the subject of gender-based violence in general, that will perhaps be pardonable on the ground of limited human ability. However, their selective protest and selective silence over the years have questioned their intention and have made us curious about their agenda and interests. Given th

Islamophobia is on the rise across the world. The alarming issue, however, is Islamophobic attitudes are noticed among Muslim youths within Muslim societies. One of the root causes to develop pessimistic attitudes towards world religions is scientific worldview. In the past, scientific worldview was a threat to Christian world of West. Recently, th

Doris Lessing celebrates the realist, committed novel and laments its absence in much of modern literature. Her theory of literature emanates from an understanding of good and evil and has an instructive function. Accordingly, she admires nineteenth-century realist novelists and commends their efforts to document and question unjust social practice

The intensely precarious integration in many parts of Bangladesh between life, rivers and water has been reflected in the country’s river novels that describe the experiences of fishermen and riparian peasants. Among river systems in Bangladesh, the Padma (the Ganges in India) has inspired the greatest number of artists and their writing. Humayun