Fabia Shahzadi Pippa Branham of Liverpool, UK, decided to bring her love for books to a whole different level. She painted her staircase in the most unique way to display her own and her husband’s favourite books. “It took her quite a while and was a project initiated out of a money saving venture to…
Fabia Shahzadi When you’re exhausted, your sleep pattern is all over the place from traveling through different time zones, and you’re faced with living out of a suitcase, making international business feel like an uphill struggle which you are never ready to face. Yet for many of us, business travel is a necessary evil, so it…
Eshan Maitra Did you know, there is only two playgrounds in the whole Dhanmondi area? Again, most of parts are owned by Abahoni club, that only they get to use. Rest of the pace is big enough. But not big enough for 10 football and 15 or above cricket games at the same time. Means,…
Maisha Mahbub According to the World Happiness Report, 2016; Bangladeshis are happier than any other South Asian countries. Being ranked eighth happiest and greenest nation among 140, this country has taken one more step forward to ‘sustainable progresses’ in human development in the last 25 years. Which leads us to the rightful question; what would…
Ashik Kabir ashikk992@gmail.com JKLF was composed largely of young Kashmiris, many of whom had received training in Pakistan and were determined to liberate Kashmir and unite it with the Pakistani controlled province of “ Azad Kashmir”. The JKLF initiated a wave of strikes, bombings and assassinations designed to end Indian control of Kashmir. In December…
Ashik Kabir ashikk992@gmail.com Located in the northwest Himalayan ranges of the Indian subcontinent, Jammu and Kashmir is India’s only Muslim preponderant state. It was ruled by Hindu Dogra Maharajas from 1846 to 1947. When the British rule of subcontinent ended creating India and Pakistan, Kashmir remained a matter of dispute between both the countries. The…
Fabia Shahzadi Waking up and getting dressed for work mid-summer often is a sartorial quandary, especially when it comes to wearing anything other than a suit. Now let’s face it, most of us usually dwell in perplexity as to whether it’s acceptable to wear shorts to the office in summer. The very idea of sporting…
Nobonita Chowdhury As much as we might try to avoid the topic, death is inevitable. Yet we try to avoid thinking about it altogether. Most major religions dictate that all men will return to the dirt once they die, regardless of social status. I personally believe that the concept of death has a nice connotation…
In search of Almighty.. An old man was reciting Quran, after his Juhar prayer.
Ishra Chowdhury Mud slinging in politics is nothing new, in fact is expected to a certain degree. We have candidates like Mr. Donald J. Trump, who engineered his entire campaign almost a year ago on the back of one xenophobic, misogynist, sexist, and racist controversial statement over another, and Ex secretary-of-state and former First Lady…