Aasha Mehreen Amin
NO STRINGS ATTACHED
Aasha Mehreen Amin is joint editor at The Daily Star.
NO STRINGS ATTACHED
Aasha Mehreen Amin is joint editor at The Daily Star.
Let us recap some of the most critical lessons of 2024 as we look forward to 2025.
You didn’t expect someone like Andrew, who would have turned only 50 this December 16, to exit the world so abruptly.
We are now going through times of extreme anxiety caused by economic uncertainty, rapid social change, and complex global issues.
How many of those injured during the July-August uprising, like Abdullah, are still fighting for their lives?
The euphoria of August 5, and the momentous days leading up to it, especially since July 15, are now being overshadowed by a cloud of uncertainty.
This incident exposes the added vulnerability of young women and girls when they belong to Indigenous communities.
By giving their opinions a religious tag, groups or individuals have managed to get away with vicious assaults on women
After the stunning fall of an autocratic regime camouflaged in democratic garb, we now have a precious opportunity to reclaim our rights as a people.
There is no shame in admitting that in the last few days many of us have cried helplessly, over the senseless deaths of students—teenagers or in their early twenties—the same age or close to the ages of our children.
What could have been resolved through a discussion as expected from any government, ended up being yet another violent suppression of the voices of students
The town is abuzz about how the astronomical price of a goat led to the opening of a gigantic can of worms
The bug of relentless connectivity to some world or the other has infected us, and there seems to be no cure.
Student protestors are calling out the double standards of Western powers
Perhaps it is no coincidence that she shared her name with Begum Rokeya, the pioneer of women’s emancipation in the Indian subcontinent during British rule.
The history of civilisation has shown that humans survive when they are part of a community.
The vicious cycle of taking loans to pay bills and then taking another loan to pay off the first loan may continue throughout their lives, with little or no real improvement in their living standards.
Women are crazy because they set the bar ridiculously high for themselves, with no thought of self-preservation.
Entitlement is a bad habit that few of us can escape.