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Jimin strips off all filters to reveal his true self in debut solo album "Face"

For a debut album, Jimin doesn’t struggle at all to establish the escape he aims for.

Miley Cyrus captures L.A. vibes in “Endless Summer Vacation”

Endless Summer Vacation seems to signal the end of Cyrus’ experimental era and establish herself in a sound that is unmistakably hers.

Journey through the centre of Cunk - A review of Cunk on Earth

The show essentially gives you a bite-sized glimpse into the history of Earth with Philomena Cunk, an ill-informed journalist.

#Events / Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) 2023: A must-have experience

Bangladeshi people love going to fairs, be it the Ekushey Book Fair, Baishakhi Mela, or the Dhaka International Trade fair taking place right at the peak of winter. Even record low temperatures this time around is no hindrance as people crowded the Bangabandhu Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Centre at Purbachal and became part of the quintessential trade fair experience. So how is the fair going this year? Let us find out.

FC Barcelona: A New Era portrays the club’s route to resurgence

The documentary is an attempt to regain the fans’ trust who have been frustrated with the club’s condition.

BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Love does not die in Maitreyi Devi’s 'Na Hanyate'

While talking about rebels wanting to liberate the country from the British, the author cannot help but ask the question of who will liberate the people—people like her and her mother who, even after being in the most progressive of the families, could not do what their hearts desired and were perpetually subdued.

BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Hope over fate

Finding himself at the epicentre of the disaster, Abed realised that a large number of deaths (an estimated 500,000) in the “world’s deadliest known tropical cyclone” were not necessarily caused by the natural disaster.

BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Tales of a development sector doyen

The book doesn’t only become a memoir of the writer’s life as a development worker, but also a tribute to the late Sir Abed and his magnanimity as a human being and a visionary. 

BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Love, fate, and age-old curses: 'The Book of Magic' by Alice Hoffman

The familial bond portrayed in the novel makes it easy to sympathise with the characters and they rarely seem woven in a piece of fiction; rather, their attributes are more lifelike and one may just find someone like Franny or Gillian Owens among their kith and kin.

March 29, 2023
March 29, 2023

Jimin strips off all filters to reveal his true self in debut solo album "Face"

For a debut album, Jimin doesn’t struggle at all to establish the escape he aims for.

March 15, 2023
March 15, 2023

Miley Cyrus captures L.A. vibes in “Endless Summer Vacation”

Endless Summer Vacation seems to signal the end of Cyrus’ experimental era and establish herself in a sound that is unmistakably hers.

February 19, 2023
February 19, 2023

Journey through the centre of Cunk - A review of Cunk on Earth

The show essentially gives you a bite-sized glimpse into the history of Earth with Philomena Cunk, an ill-informed journalist.

January 12, 2023
January 12, 2023

Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF) 2023: A must-have experience

Bangladeshi people love going to fairs, be it the Ekushey Book Fair, Baishakhi Mela, or the Dhaka International Trade fair taking place right at the peak of winter. Even record low temperatures this time around is no hindrance as people crowded the Bangabandhu Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Centre at Purbachal and became part of the quintessential trade fair experience. So how is the fair going this year? Let us find out.

January 10, 2023
January 10, 2023

FC Barcelona: A New Era portrays the club’s route to resurgence

The documentary is an attempt to regain the fans’ trust who have been frustrated with the club’s condition.

December 23, 2022
December 23, 2022

Love does not die in Maitreyi Devi’s 'Na Hanyate'

While talking about rebels wanting to liberate the country from the British, the author cannot help but ask the question of who will liberate the people—people like her and her mother who, even after being in the most progressive of the families, could not do what their hearts desired and were perpetually subdued.

November 24, 2022
November 24, 2022

Hope over fate

Finding himself at the epicentre of the disaster, Abed realised that a large number of deaths (an estimated 500,000) in the “world’s deadliest known tropical cyclone” were not necessarily caused by the natural disaster.

November 19, 2022
November 19, 2022

Tales of a development sector doyen

The book doesn’t only become a memoir of the writer’s life as a development worker, but also a tribute to the late Sir Abed and his magnanimity as a human being and a visionary. 

October 15, 2022
October 15, 2022

Love, fate, and age-old curses: 'The Book of Magic' by Alice Hoffman

The familial bond portrayed in the novel makes it easy to sympathise with the characters and they rarely seem woven in a piece of fiction; rather, their attributes are more lifelike and one may just find someone like Franny or Gillian Owens among their kith and kin.

October 6, 2022
October 6, 2022

Poetry review: Moon’s madness

Protiti’s poems are mostly ‘bare’ conversational musings exploring ‘selfhood, separation, exile, love and longing’.