Category: Colors

For the last few years, there have been many hues and cries over the apparent decline of democracy or democratic values around the world. Freedom House, an American think-tank that measures the state of global freedom, reckons that 2016 was the eleventh consecutive year in which the declines in the global freedom...

Anyone with a shred of decency would find the attack on Mahmudur Rahman difficult to defend. According to media reports, the perpetrators belong to the ruling party student wing, Chhatra League. Clearly, he was targeted simply because the former acting editor of Amar Desh newspaper is an outspoken opposition firebrand. At the time of the...

n Bangladesh, a Muslim majority country of more than 160 million people, the very first attempt by a mainstream newspaper to shed light on online activities of Bangladesh’s secular bloggers resulted in far-reaching and painful consequences. The paper’s overtly biased, misleading and erroneous presentation set off a chain of events...