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The Role of Collagen

Collagen, a fibrous protein composed primarily of glycine, proline, and hydroxyproline, is particularly important during the proliferative and remodeling phases. Without sufficient collagen synthesis, wounds may heal slowly, remain fragile, or become susceptible to infection and reopening.

Communication is No Longer Optional

The simple rule is this: If something can be misunderstood, it probably will be. And if it can be said in a simpler way, it should be. Because people do not expect perfect speeches. They just want clear ones.

Looking Beyond LCs

Bangladesh Bank’s circular issued on June 11 represents a timely, strategic, and forward-looking shift toward the development and facilitation of alternative trade finance mechanisms.

The Cold Chain Question We are Not Asking

Only through a combined approach -- strengthened technical capacity, strict regulation, and informed public awareness -- can we ensure that vaccines retain their full effectiveness from manufacturer to patient, and that preventable tragedies are avoided.

Malaysia First, Then China

This is not a government choosing China over India, or East Asia over the West. Rather, Dhaka is trying to keep every door open for as long as the money keeps coming in and as long as no single lender or ally claims it exclusively.

Why the Dollar Remains Inevitable

Stability is not achieved through currency redesign, but through effective liquidity coordination and risk management within the existing global monetary framework.

The World Hanging on a Bamboo Pole

The distance between Bangladesh and the World Cup cannot be measured in kilometres. It is measured in institutions, accountability, planning, and political will. Perhaps one day, when the World Cup comes around again, one flag on that bamboo pole will sell just a little more than the rest.

Promised Work, Deployed to War

An unknown number of Bangladeshi young men whose families parted with savings of 10 lakh taka or more for the prospect of a better life for them, find themselves on a distant frontline in a war they never chose, in a country whose language they cannot speak, and fighting for a side they were never asked to join.

The Missing Number in the Budget

The first BNP budget allocates billions for growth, infrastructure, and social protection. But its success will ultimately be judged by whether it creates employment for Bangladesh's growing workforce.

Morality Before Democracy

Democracy survives not because leaders are always virtuous, but because citizens possess the courage and awareness to resist injustice.

Europe's Defence Dilemma in an Era of American Retrenchment

A more self-reliant Europe could also stimulate greater defence-industrial cooperation, increased arms exports, and new opportunities for technological and industrial partnerships with smaller states. It may ultimately contribute to a more multipolar international security environment in which European powers exercise greater strategic influence.

The Shroud of Sexism over Parliament

A parliament is not a place to demean women for their Islamic attire; its primary mandate is to protect and uphold the rights of every citizen. Failing to do so violates the democratic principles that the very institution was built to safeguard.

Pakistan is No Longer in South Asia. Why Does it Matter to Bangladesh?

By placing Pakistan in MENAAP, the World Bank is giving institutional weight to this development path, one centred on migration, remittances, energy dependence, external finance and rentier capital. Pakistan’s reclassification is not Bangladesh’s crisis, but it is Bangladesh’s warning.

Before Memory Becomes Myth

As the second anniversary of the July Uprising approaches, the country has a rare opportunity to move beyond ceremonial commemoration and begin the serious work of preservation.

Nation, Religion, State, and the Plural Nature of Being

Whenever one reads the great poets and writers of China, India, Russia, Latin America, West Asia, or any other part of the world, they can find themselves inhabiting their worlds and seeing life through their eyes. Their experiences become part of my own intellectual and emotional landscape. In that sense, I cannot confine myself to being only an ethnic Bengali.

The Subaltern is Being Renamed

When the language of subalternity becomes a resource through which those closest to power construct their own political identities, we are compelled to ask: Are we truly listening to the voices of the marginalized, or are we witnessing the moral prestige of marginality being transformed into yet another form of political capital?