I RETURNED to the US from Cuba just a few hours before president Donald Trump signed a memorandum on June 30 tightening the long-standing US economic blockade. The memorandum includes a statutory ban on US tourism to the neighboring island...
PARASITE, directed by Bong Joon Ho in 2019, had been critically acclaimed as one of the most effectual cinematic commentaries on modern society and hailed as one of the best films of the 21st century. With an airy balance of dark humour, suspense, and sharp-eyed social critique, Bong launches a scathing attack on the ideology of capitalism, fuelling those self-perpetuating cycles of exploitation, resentment, and...
FROM time immemorial, human beings have been living by consuming for survival. This writing, however, is not about our normal behaviours of consumption for living. In modern culture, consumerism refers to the tendency of people who live a lifestyle of excessive materialism that revolves around reflexive, wasteful, or conspicuous consumption triggered...
SOME of the most powerful people in Bangladesh are facing personal situations which may be indicative of a bigger problem. The enrichment happens through connections and, occasionally, force that together sustain a socio-political system...