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THE FUTURE IS CENSORED
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
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Change is the only constant
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
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Media: Between a rock and a hard place
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM
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Are you boring people to death and beyond?
Boring? You? No way. I am talking about the other person. We all know who that is. But just in case it IS you, you may not know it. This is much like being a dead zombie vampire. You may not know it until you look at your gross yet unreflecting self in the mirror. This list is just such a mirror. And it reflects if you really want to see.
18 October 2018, 18:00 PM
MISTY SWEETNESS
The little girl in the yellow summer frock looks up at the floating fluffy clouds. Wide-eyed, head tilted back, smiling at the gliding, feathery edges of the dense mass.
18 October 2018, 18:00 PM
About Town
10 Years of the Armeen Musa Band
18 October 2018, 18:00 PM
The tiny Island nation in the Mediterranean
Cyprus is a beautiful little island in a very strategic position in the Mediterranean Sea. It has been influenced by many diverse cultures, languages and people.
18 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Pandal hopping in October
Celebrating the victory of the warrior goddess Durga over the shape-shifting demon Ashur, Durga Puja symbolises the triumph of goodness over evil.
18 October 2018, 18:00 PM
A novel crisscrossing cultures and time
The Storm is a tale of multiple compelling characters from around the world but all tied back to a crucial time and place in South Asia—a storm based on the real 1970 Bhola cyclone.
18 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Contextualising Islam, the social and the political
The issue of Islam in Bangladesh is complex, sensitive and fraught. It has problematised the sense of national identity of Bangladeshis into a schizophrenic duality driven by the tension between the cultural and religious aspects of their collective personality.
18 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Inking The Psyche On Paper
"As I start drawing, and begin contemplating on what to draw, my art takes shape. When I sit with a pen and a blank canvas, I slowly start to see images and it guides my pen, eventually giving birth to a piece of art.
11 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Dismantling The Privilege Of Ignorance
On the day America, after a long-drawn process involving yet another sexual abuse discourse, finally confirmed Brett Kavanaugh as the Supreme Court Justice, I was travelling on the train from Baltimore, MD to Washington, DC.
11 October 2018, 18:00 PM
A day on the Shitalakhya
Though it's a sunny Friday morning, the concrete Gulistan flyover renders the landscape gunmetal, where I'm to meet Shohag Mohajon, the manager of Clean River Bangladesh. Almost 20 minutes of miscommunication later, I manage to find him in a sea of speedy civilians. We exchange greetings and get on the waiting bus.
11 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Crushing the spirit
The minimum wage of garments workers has been declared at Tk 8,000 per month—and it seems, at this point, it is a signed and sealed deal. City life is going as is.
11 October 2018, 18:00 PM
The dangerous half degree
A new report published last week by the United Nation's Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an organisation consisting of leading climate scientists from all over the world, has warned that by 2030, the earth's temperature is expected to witness an increase by at least half a degree.
11 October 2018, 18:00 PM
What of the bread and butter of our bakers?
Fifty-four-year-old Md Belal Hossain works at a small bakery in Ibrahimpur, Mirpur. He has learnt only one trade in his life—making bread, biscuits, cakes, and confectionery items on the dirty floors of grim bakeries.
11 October 2018, 18:00 PM
MAILBOX
Influential people are becoming ultra-wealthy overnight leading to an extreme margin of wealth distribution between the existing rich and the ultra-poor in our society.
11 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Girls Still Left Behind
“We know education is important. All of my three daughters studied up to grade five. But in our village, the demand of dowry increases if our daughters cross 15 years of age.
11 October 2018, 18:00 PM
From the shores of hell & back
“They thought I was dead,” Abdul tells Star Weekend. “I was stuck in a jail in Libya for over four months and I never had the chance to contact my family. They thought I had fallen from the boat [on the way to Italy from Libya] into the dangerous sea and disappeared forever,” he says.
4 October 2018, 18:00 PM
How to stay married without killing yourself
I just celebrated 11 years of being married. That too, to the same woman. And this year we both remembered the day, a day late. Which is okay because now we are even. Last year, she forgot, which was hilarious for me. Earlier, I had forgotten. But this balance did not come easily. Here's what we learned over the years.
4 October 2018, 18:00 PM
LA BOCA & SAN TELMO
The barrios of Buenos Aires has been split into three parts: Monserrat & City Centre, Palermo & Recoleta, and La Boca & San Telmo. This is the third instalment in the series.
4 October 2018, 18:00 PM
TROUBLES
What constitutes troubles? Sarkar Sahib tried thoughtfully to broach the subject, but before he could do so, ten china plates fell from the hands of the servant and broke into a thousand pieces.
4 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Fear and loathing in the White House
"Fear" is an important book not only because it raises serious questions about the American president's basic fitness for office, but also because of who the author is.
4 October 2018, 18:00 PM