Afsan Chowdhury – Page 5

Full buses, half buses and corona management

Editorial

- Afsan Chowdhury - August 12, 2021August 12, 2021

Corona has ushered in an era of new realities. Not only do we not know what is going on , we don’t know what is going on to manage it. This has become most obvious in case of the lockdown management policy of the GOB. Many have expressed bewilderment at

Conditions don’t get more difficult than Bangladesh series: Christian

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- Afsan Chowdhury - August 11, 2021August 11, 2021

The Aussie player who will be remembered more for hitting five sixes in an over from Shakib than playing cricket was being honest and yet just a little bit opportunistic. As a veteran player he was expected to do much but he ended up playing a cameo in the last

NGOs and lack of transparency

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- Afsan Chowdhury - August 10, 2021August 10, 2021

TIB has said that the NGOs are even less transparent than the GOB. Many GOB officials and those who are not fond of NGOs are happy. It is being implied that if the Government is bad, the NGOs who are always criticizing the GOB are worse. We had done a small

Why the 5th match is so important for Bangladesh?

- Afsan Chowdhury - August 9, 2021August 9, 2021

Every country has sports but few countries need it as desperately as Bangladesh does. In a world where most days are spent feeling down and in the dumps, cricket provides us hope, flickering as they are. Even though most of the time Bangladesh loses, we still keep on hoping that

We like sex but not sex workers

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- Afsan Chowdhury - August 9, 2021August 9, 2021

The public mind loves sex particularly of the commercial variety.. Dhaka is exploding with escapades of all kinds and that includes the middle class..it's not just the rich who are well into it but rest are too .. It's inevitable when it's a sign of class, culture and clout... As a

The 19th over by Mustafiz

Editorial

- Afsan Chowdhury - August 8, 2021August 8, 2021

As Australia mounted their best challenge to date and were slowly but certainly not certainly crawling towards victory, Dhaka was down and dejected. Many don’t watch many matches but follow the game. Cricket really doesn’t matter much, what matters is the flag. On Friday , against all previous cricket history

Can the media survive without Pori Moni?

- Afsan Chowdhury - August 8, 2021August 8, 2021

It's impossible not to see Pori Moni on every screen or page. She is all encompassing and truly total. Everyone is gorging on her and the hungry public is reading and hearing and either wishing she was here with them or thank god that woman and her gang aren't destroying

Iran: Can the new President Raisi handle the future?

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- Afsan Chowdhury - August 7, 2021August 7, 2021

Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi is the new and 8th president of Iran. He is here as an heir to the Islamic Revolution in Iran under Ayatollah Khomeni in 1979 that overthrew the pro-Western and hugely unpopular monarchy of Iran led by Reza Shah Pahlevi. But the scenario between then and now

Naughty little boys, ladies of the night and Ammus

Editorial

- Afsan Chowdhury - August 4, 2021August 9, 2021

So here came another mega dose of sleaze, making Dhaka’s rich look exactly as they are: rich, powerful and banal not to mention the bearer of rural cultural disorder in urban settings. As one pointed out, female criminality is rising whatever that means. Haillas expect them to stay home and

Hello yaba, hello liquor, hello Bangladesh

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- Afsan Chowdhury - August 3, 2021August 3, 2021

Every time there is a police raid, bottles of foreign liquor, yaba tablets and other sundry items are found. Having them are criminal acts but one wonders how many well off and even not so well off homes have them. In a country, where the police have to say that