Barack Obama In the last several weeks—and the last several months before that—we have seen the kinds of epic changes that are as profound as anything that I’ve seen in my lifetime.
Tag: Opinion
You only live once
Sudhirendar Sharma Is there anything other than people, places and proceedings, in isolation or in combination, that plays on our memory? Perhaps, not.
A global economy in unchartered waters
by John Evans on 3rd June 2020 Governments must learn from the financial crisis if they are not to repeat the errors of the recovery from it. Economic commentators have cautioned against drawing parallels between the economic impact of the…
It’s time for all of us to Stop. Hate. Now.
Danielle Nierenberg Like so many of us, I feel sad and enraged by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, David McAtee, and many others at the hands of police. These murders are a travesty and not something…
Superpower in chaos
By Chandra Muzaffar Minneapolis could not have happened at a worse time for the US elites. While violence perpetrated against African Americans by White police officers has happened a number of times before, its occurrence right in the midst of…
COVID-19: challenges, Dilemmas and Initiatives
Dr. Sinha MA Sayeed Creations, destructions and reformations in various mood and modes have been going on unceasingly in the universes and the Sun being one of the members of such reality needs to be tolerant as usual. Therefore, Sun…
The Planet After the Pandemic
by André Hoffmann BASEL – Scientists have little doubt: the destruction of nature makes humanity increasingly vulnerable to disease outbreaks like the COVID-19 pandemic, which has sickened millions, killed hundreds of thousands and devastated countless livelihoods worldwide. It also will…
Bureaucratic-Politico Archetypal: Bangladesh perspective
Dr. Sinha MA Sayeed This day and age here in Bangladesh have grown and developed a sort of State-of-the-art rule christened with the state-of-the-art defence from the very womb of the ongoing parliamentary model for running the country and this…
Memorable days: Tough first few months to assert as editor
Mostafa Kamal Majumder After taking over as editor of The New Nation in May I spent some tough months for a variety of reasons. The proprietor used to subsidise the paper with his earnings from the Daily Ittefaq. The paper…
শপিং-এ যেয়ে দোকানে প্রবেশের পূর্বে দেখে নিন–
এম জাহিদুল হক করোনাভাইরাস কিন্তু আমাদের ছেড়ে যায়নি; কবে যাবে বা আদৌ ছেড়ে যাবে কিনা, তা নিয়ে যথেষ্ট সন্দেহ রয়েছ। তাই করোনাভাইরাসকে নিয়েই জীবন সচল ও সক্রিয় করতে হবে। এ প্রেক্ষাপটেই বিশ্বের অন্যান্য অনেক দেশের মত বাংলাদেশও খুলে দেওয়া হয়েছে…
Police may be encouraged to enforce social distancing norms
Dr. Md. Jafar Ullah In Bangladesh, the first COVID-19 cases were reported on 8 March, and the first death on the 18th of the month. Surfacing in China last December, this virus travelled to different countries of Asia, Europe, Africa…
Wordsmith par excellence
Sudhirendar Sharma No contemporary poet has been capable of engineering thoughts on social awakening through poetic lyricism. Such has been its lyrical contemporariness that ‘main zindagi ka saath nibhata chala gaya’ has been taken to heart by even the millennial…
Memorable daysঃ My answer will be both ‘yes’ and ‘no’
Mostafa Kamal Majumder If anybody asks me if I have come to the profession of journalism by conscious choice, my answer will be both ‘yes’ and ‘no’. Yes, because after coming to this profession I have really made no serious…
Memorable days in the career of an unsung newspaper editor
Mostafa Kamal Majumder When I was offered to be the editor of The New Nation, Dhaka on 4 May 2005, I had already worked there as Executive Editor for nearly two years. I thought it was time for me to…
UN@75 and the future we want
By Dr Julia Stamm BERLIN, May 27 2020 (IPS) – Crises make us think smaller. When everything is uncertain, we turn inward: to our families, our communities, the immediate needs around us. We focus on the essential and the immediate;…
Politics, profits undermine public interest in vaccine race
Sydney/Kuala Lumpur, 26 May (IPS/Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram) — With well over five million Covid-19 infections worldwide, and deaths exceeding 340,000, the race for an effective vaccine has accelerated since the SARS-Cov-2 virus was first identified as the…
No woman should ever die giving life
By Sheikha Hend Al Qassimi and Siddharth Chatterjee NAIROBI, Kenya, May 26 2020 (IPS) – Consider this. 24 women, children and babies were murdered at a hospital in Kabul, the Afghan capital. Even by standards of a country as accustomed…
What’s in a name?
Sudhirendar Sharma Names may not always define the nature of a thing but certainly represent historical lineage when referred to a place.
Corona Vaccine from Tobacco?
M Zahidul Haque IN April 2020, an international media reported that the British-American Tobacco’s biotech subsidiary, Kentucky Bio Processing has started working on a potential vaccine for the novel coronavirus from tobacco plant. Corona vaccine from Tobacco? One would definitely…
The Digital Path to Citizen-Centric Finance
By Achim Steiner and Maria Ramos NEW YORK/JOHANNESBURG – Today, “mobile money” – a service enabling people to send, receive, and store money on a cellphone – allows a market trader in Kenya to borrow a modest amount at sunrise…
Spend Fossil-Fuel Subsidies on Pandemic Relief and the Poor
By M. Chatib Basri, Rema N. Hanna, and Benjamin A. Olken JAKARTA/CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS – In addition to its health and human toll, the COVID-19 pandemic is threatening to reverse much of the progress that developing countries have made in reducing…
Nakba: A Call For Justice In Palestine
By Jafar M Ramini May 15th was the 72nd anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) and counting. I say ‘and counting’ because the theft of our land, the occupation, the siege on Gaza, the disposition of our people, the ethnic…
Sans universal health care we’re sitting ducks for pandemics
By Siddharth Chatterjee NAIROBI, Kenya, May 14 2020 (IPS) – We live in a different world to the one we inhabited six short months ago. With more than 4 million people infected and over 280,000 dead globally by mid-May 2020,…
Albeiro Vargas: a must watch family documentary
If you are not moved by the content of this documentary, check your pulse to see if you are alive Sir Frank Peters And now here’s something that offers respite from the depressing Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic reports… and hope for…
Corona Pandemic and the Workers
M Zahidul Haque DURING this Corona pandemic if one asks a worker-“How are you doing in this corona pandemic?” One would get a common reply with a set of problems—“Not so well; not yet received salary, under landlord’s pressure for…
Missing out on a dinner
Sudhirendar Sharma In the absolute silence enforced by the invisible coronavirus, the thub-thub of my own chest has become a metronome of interesting revelations. I recall how small odours of spices were infused by a clutch of magazines for emerging…
Vitamin not a ‘miracle cure’ but may fight Covid-9
A new study from researchers at Trinity College Dublin has hypothesized that vitamin D deficiency may be linked to higher mortality rates from COVID-19. Published in the Irish Medical Journal, the report analyzed vitamin D levels of older people in…
Bureaucratic-Politico Archetypal: Case of Bangladesh
By Dr. Sinha MA Sayeed This day and age here in Bangladesh has grown and developed a sort of State-of-the-art Rule christened with the state-of-the-art defense from the very womb of ongoing parliamentary model for running the country and this…
The pandemic and the day after
by Andreas Antoniades on 15th May 2020 @aaantoniades Emergence from the coronavirus crisis cannot be to ‘business as usual’ but must urgently open a transition to socio-environmental sustainability.
Healthy Oceans: Keeping Asia and the Pacific Afloat
By Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana BANGKOK, Thailand, May 13 2020 (IPS) – Memories of idyllic beaches and sonorous waves may seem far away while we remain at home. Yet, we need not look far to appreciate the enduring history of the…