Eshan Maitra So, the other day I was hearing this while passing by elementary school, “Vabi, my boy only can say Dog and Cat. He doesn’t even understand what Kukur-Biral is. Hihi!” Then with some more of such examples like that. Her Son is so bad in Bangla! And She was telling that with such…
Syed Nasir Ershad Some people say that the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election is no longer for Hillary Clinton to lose but for Donald Trump to win. It is not because of a few polls putting the Republican nominee ahead of the Democratic nominee. It is because Hillary remained unexciting. From the voters’ point of view,…
Mohammad Ali Sattar These are trying times for us. Tragedies that befell us in the past were of different nature. Degree of loss and grief were measured on different scales. Hurricanes and deluge, mountain slides, road accidents, river mishaps, death in inferno, building collapses – all has been incidents of regular composition, although many of…
Fabia Shahzadi “If I as rewarded with another chance, I still would not change a thing about myself”-Says almost every teenager while faking the most confident smile. I firmly agree to disagree that I am not one of those insecure teenagers. If I was proposed with the same option, hell yeah I would seize it! I would grab hold of that one…
Eshan Maitra When I moved to Old Dhaka from Dhanmondi, it took me a whole year before I could find a good broadband connection. Since, I’m no rich guy who only uses internet to flirt on the social networks. If you just typed something on google search and went to random websites, you should know…
Tarannum Haider Maliha The Rampal Power Plant project in one of the most discussed topic in Bangladesh as well as around the world. Those who don’t even have any idea what it is have also heard the name of Rampal Power Plant. What is Rampal Power Plant? It is a dream of building the country’s…
Ishra Chowdhury It seems… It seems, 2016 has entered the warped world of George Orwell’s 1984, a book written in the late, late 40’s about government surveillance, censorship, “democratic” dictatorship and espionage; to put it mildly. Devastatingly portraying a brutal parallel in the current tensions globally, and most recently domestically here in Bangladesh. In the…
Eshan Maitra So the other day, I wanted to check on the google map, how long it might take to travel from Dhaka Shadarghat to Uttara. Just out of curiosity. Since, the trip was kind of like traveling from one corner of Dhaka city to another. Then google replied me, it would take approximately 1…
Shila Ahmed Kabir Our society sees women as mothers, sister, daughters; gentle beings incapable of initiating violence or harming others. The image comes from seeing women as caregivers in most of our lives. However, this widely popular mindset cannot be more wrong. Women, as individual beings, are very capable of choosing and initiating violence and…