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by Hafizur Talukdar Almost four years have passed. But the Rohingya issue was not resolved. There is not much movement in Rohingya as various issues have been created in the country. The Rohingya people started fleeing from Myanmar to Bangladesh…

“The fight for our planet,physical and spiritual, a fight of cosmic proportions, is not a vague matter of the future;it has already started. The forces of evil have begun their offensive…”  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1978 The Save Our Right Group, Unite…

by Pathik Hasan December 16, 2021 is knocking on the door. Bangladesh will celebrate its 50th  victory day anniversary with full spirit. On December 16, 1971, almost 93,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered in Dhaka, leading to the creation of the sovereign…

ESSAY We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home — insects, spiders, lizards, bedbugs, lice, fleas, roundworms,…

POEM     I dream of leaving this blighted land. Here, abundant waters rise up to the heavens But no rainfall returns to nourish the earth. Jungles give way to burnt-out mountains Trees felled and fettered as logs en route…

VISUAL ART Bikol Youth Groups and a broad alliance of artists and cultural workers to launch a mural project visualizing people’s agenda and good governance; calls on Sorsoganon youth to discern the signs of times The 1Sambayan-Sorsogon Youth, in partnership…

On Older Persons/Centenarians     by Genevieve Balance-Kupang The Second Centenarian in the Tikidan Family The atmosphere at the Centenarian Award ceremony was filled with celebratory excitement, joy, hope for good health, and longevity for the awardee. All stakeholders gathered…

The 26th of October will be remembered as the day when front-of-package food labelling finally became law to achieve something that seemed utopian: that people know what they are consuming, and decide about it. The most named and praised person…

Chomsky, now 92, is the author of several political bestsellers, translated into several languages. His critiques of power and his defence of the autonomy and political action of ordinary people have inspired generations of activists and social organisers. He has…

Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, delivered a powerful speech this week at this year’s COP 26 in Glasgow, Scotland. Do some leaders in this world believe they can survive on their own? Have they not learned from…