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50 years old Bosun (a senior crewman) Anis does not care a penny about wild sea. He is obsessed with the thoughts of his beloved daughters. All of them are eligible to get married. In the next sign off, he must make that arrangement. God knows whether he can manage that or not. I took this picture in a stormy weather on north Pacific and suddenly this big wave covered us within a few seconds.

Long Read

The mariners

The marine life has been one of the ancient and daring professions in the history of mankind contributing to civilisation

James Fosdike Illustrations for Foreign Policy

Long Read

Mikhail Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut Thanksgiving miracle

Qantas Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. Photo: Getty Images via Bloomberg

Explorer

I just took the world's first 20-hour flight. Here's what it did to me

Broken Innocence

Crime

Broken Innocence

Amazing stories of our girls

Women Empowerment

Amazing stories of our girls

People catching fish in the water mixed with liquid waste. During the rainy season, untreated solid and liquid wastes mix with the water as the site is in a flood flow zone.

Environment

Aminbazar's wasteland story

File Photo: Mahatma Gandhi/ Reuters

World+Biz

The Gandhi you know, the one you don’t

Reeta Barua, wife of Uttam Barua, emerges from the kitchen with a picture of her missing husband. Life inside this bare brick room confines her to a future that holds no promises. Photo: Mumit M/TBS

Crime

Ramu violence: In the shadow of what we don’t know

Fisherman pulling nets at the Meghna River near Haimchar in Chandpur. Photo: Mumit M

Features

The song of hilsha catchers

Squeezed from all sides, a Rohingya boy stands a gloomy future as his generation is lost forever. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed Paulash/TBS

Rohingya Crisis

Remains of the day