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The sky over Shahbagh hung heavy with polluted heat, thick as damp cotton. The iron gates of the country’s premier government hospital stood open, swallowing the crowd into stained concrete and blinding dust.

Today is the International Day of Democracy. The United Nations put it on the calendar in 2007, on a resolution Qatar had pushed for, and picked 15 September because that’s the date, back in 1997, when the Inter-Parliamentary…

Agatha Christie was born on 15 September 1890, in a house called Ashfield in Torquay. She taught herself to read early. She wrote a poem at ten. Nobody in that house had any reason to think they were…

If there is one thing I learned from the second half of my admission journey, it is this: holding on until the very end matters. Sometimes, that last bit of nerve becomes the difference between giving up and…

Arnab Bhattacharyya has attained the University of Glasgow and the University of Sydney Collaborative PhD Scholarship.

Symbolic interaction is a theoretical approach given by George Herbert Mead that specifically identifies the role of symbols and language as fundamentals of all human interaction. It focuses on a limited-scale context of interactions between individuals. Mead believed…

There are some books that I read because I have to, and there are others that make me stop and look at the world from a different perspective.

“I see the university train go by here every day, and every time I look at the students through the train window, I can’t help but think: what if I got the chance to study at your university…

The point of this discussion is that when there is an information gap between two trading parties, the prices fail to reflect the true value of the commodity since the buyer ends up overvaluing or undervaluing the good.

Growing up, Azwad Mostafiz Ador always lost the fight for the television remote against his two sisters, so he found a way around it. His mother owned an old Sony phone with no lock on it. Ador used…