Mohammad Badrul Ahsan has been writing his column Crosstalk in The Daily Star since 2000. Earlier, he co-authored A Strategic Model for Multinational Corporate Social Responsibility in the Third World with Professor Jay L Laughlin of Kansas State University, which was published in the Journal of International Marketing in 1994 and later included in Global Business: Contemporary Issues, Problems and Challenges, a College Custom Series published in 1996 by McGraw-Hill Inc. He is also the author of In Search of a Nation, a book on the philosophy of history, published by Mowla Brothers in 1992. In 2004, University Press Limited published A Good Man in the Woods and Other Essays, the first collection of his columns in The Daily Star. Mohammad Badrul Ahsan is currently working in an international bank.