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Silencing the Savagery By Shahbaz Ahmed shahbaz.zipfile555@gmail.com Graphics by: Aquib Rezwan aquibrezwan0@gmail.com Upoma, a college-going student always takes a local bus for a ride on her way home. She lives quite far away from her college. But she loves the journey, and so, doesn’t think too much of the distance. Today, she hitched on the bus she always gets on. Generally, she tends to go straight to the reserved seats for women, but today, they are all filled up. An old guy who is her father’s age is sitting on a reserved seat with his wife, that too beside the window- the place she was craving to seat on, as she had a rough day and wanted to feel the cold breeze as the bus moved with tremendous speed. “Nah, he is sitting with her wife. I shouldn’t tell him to move over. The seats are not mine, and I can’t just tell a guy to move for me, although he shouldn’t have sat there, right?”, she thought. She got her answer soon enough, as the bus came to a halt and the passenger right by

 "Why the Prices are so High?" By Mahdi Munshi mahdimunsi@gmail.com   Graphics By: Aquib Rezwan aquibrezwan0@gmail.com Nowadays, oil prices in Bangladesh have risen so dramatically, and people have become so dissatisfied with the situation that the price of oil has become a laughing stock. Earlier this week, I saw in the news that an engaged couple got a 5-liter bottle of soya bean oil as a wedding present. Who would have imagined that soybean oil would make an excellent wedding gift? Individuals are becoming more creative in their silent protest against this rising price of commodities, which made something so peculiar happen. Today, every grocery shop owner and staffs in Bangladesh are tired of answering the same question — “Why is it so expensive?”. In this article, I will attempt to answer this question from a very general perspective — ‘what causes price hike (in general)’ and try to discuss subject matters like who are being benefitted by this economic pheno