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Maslow’s Hierarchy of University Student Needs
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, portrayed on a pyramid, is an essential tool to understand why people act the way they act.
Aphasiac Fiction
Fiction collides with the aphasiac state, as reality swirls out of the conscience. Drowsing past that holds much grief wakes up like strangers with all my secrets. Where burning tail-lights read stories brought back from heaven’s whorehouse.
Traitor memories
“They say when you take a picture, you end up saving that moment forever. They are wrong.
The ones you don’t see
I am a Pangolin. Humans have killed most of my kind. My burrows are home to dozens of other species. If you lose me, you lose many others.
SHUMI
I first started taking these photographs, confined to my home during a protracted illness. Shumi was full of life, always prancing around.
Shutterstories / LOVE STUDIO
Love Studio is a portrait series about a studio in Jurain, which is a predominantly commercial area.
The Invitation
"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain." - Henry David Thoreau
DECAYING NATURE
Endangered are the spirits of the forest. Harmless creatures worn around feeble bodies for the exposure of grandeur. Their cries unheard by their wearers.
A pause to breathe
When I started working at the zoo it seemed impossible to relate to it, but in a serendipitous twist of fate, after spending ample time there, I started to develop a bond with the animals.
The happy Buddhas
Between February 19 to 23, 2010, hundreds houses of Jumma villagers, Buddhist temples, and a church were torched in a communal attack in the Baghaihat area of Sajek union and Khagrchari municipality under Khagrachari district allegedly by Bangalee settlers.
Blinded by Beauty?
We, travellers, have fallen in love with Sajek's stark, burnt-umber coloured cliffs that jut upright throughout the valley.
Charak
Charak Puja is a festival celebrated in the southern belt of Bangladesh, where devotees undergo acts of flagellation in order to appease Lord Shiva and his wife Shakti.
Call Me Heena
I feel like a mermaid. My body tells me I am a man and my soul tells me I am a woman — Heena, 51.
Beautiful Bangladesh
Our land is one of colours, rivers, vast lands and warm people. Whether it is the concrete jungle that is Dhaka city, or the softer sides of
Relief
There are moments when one needs to escape from the clutches of this concrete city and find themselves admiring nature- the sky,
Give us knowledge
Devotees pay their respect to Saraswati, the Hindu Goddess of knowledge, music and arts. On the day of the puja, men, women and children wake up early in the morning.
Having Found Peace
During holidays, my family and I often become tourists, traveling the roads less traveled by, in Bangladesh. Last year during the Eid holidays, we started our journey from Chittagong and headed to our destination, Sylhet.
