Sunday mark the second death anniversary of Mohammad Badrul Ahsan, who was a weekly columnist for The Daily Star for many years.
He was also the publisher and editor of the now defunct weekly magazine First News.
Earlier, Badrul had served for a long time with Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) and was stationed in Dhaka and Dubai. A passionate writer, he left his banking career to publish First News in 2010.
He began writing his weekly column “Cross Talk” in 2000. He also wrote several books, including “Grameen Bank and Muhammad Yunus”, “In Search of a Nation”, “Tales from the Heart”, “‘A Good Man in the Woods and other essays”, “Crosstalk Essays”, and “The Parallax View”.
