Mannan Mashhur Zarif

“Less is more” said the smart ones. Heritage looms to ‘post-modern’ prints — one can simply drown in a pool of this soothing hue of pink, never having to think twice about going wrong. Oh! Did we say, ‘women only’? Certainly not! As the song goes, “Pink is the colour of passion

She turns heads and makes eyes go blind, only if for a second. She needles her way, and stitches the guise on fiery yellow; and that chunky golden chandelier for an earring! Why carry one style when you can don two?

A Jamdani is exquisite. A Jamdani is timeless. And it has the love of a woman, and her man! All our lives we try to stand out in a crowd, while the real struggle often is to blend in. Eons have passed; styles have become passé. Nonetheless, from that moment on — hundreds of years in our past —till today, no Bengali

Eid, beyond doubt, is the best time for fashion peeps — you, I and everyone else in this part of the globe we call home. While one may flirt with the idea to throw out everything ‘ethnic’ and choose to tilt otherwise and rock, we suggest otherwise. You may have never bothered to check the fashion lexicon

Flamboyance is the name of the new game. Think convention, and then do everything opposite. Comfy on a couch — at ease in the yellow of the brightest shade, and a top that simply outshines the fiery fire of the sari. And the shades and the shoes scream — come hither!

February 2, 1988. Presiding an evening session of the Second National Poetry Festival at the University of Dhaka, famed artist Quamrul Hassan doodled what would become one of the most important works of his career, and our art history.

Only a year later, in 1890, Shaiji would breathe his last at the age of around 117.

Sari styles change every calendar year — undergoing major experimentation with fabrics, patterns, weaves and drapes.

Three evenings of glamour, oomph and panache; the best of the best amongst our local designers, participants from various Asian countries; and some of the most promising new faces on the scene right at this moment—made up the razzle-dazzle that set the TRESemmé Bangladesh Fashion Week 2019 apart.

How does one define culture, and essentially 'pop culture'? Never mind the academicians as there is no true consensus.

It would not be an understatement that Jazz, as a musical genre, defies all definitions.

The traffic light goes from green, yellow, red; and yellow again at the dead end of the night, as it does on a bright summer noon.

He imagined the creation, with chaos, and the gods bringing order to what they had shaped.

Wedding invites start pouring in as early as the last week of November every year. Given the fact that I had married not so long ago, the pile this year was somewhat taller, which means more outflow of cash on my part!

Growing up as a boy in the '90s, an eventful decade for more reasons than one, I was allowed to read widely. Of course there was no Internet, no e-books, or online libraries. I cannot even recall being a member of one, because almost every household had a selection of books, no matter how small or insignificant it may now seem.

If there is a price for freedom, what is it and who pays it? And if the debt remains unsettled, how does a generation get absolved of the sins of the last?

I was more of a witness than an actual participant of the whole exercise. The years of searching, the myriad unpleasantness, and even the reality checks had not prepared me for the session of drafting the marriage contract. Even before I had said, “I do,” clauses for inheritance and divorce were tossed, argued, and agreed on.

By 3AM in the morning, the hullaballoo was over. Our wedding party had reached Dhaka, the ceremonial welcome of the new bride over and done with, and J, my kid sister ushered us to the room.

Artist Jamal Ahmed is a master of drawing, acclaimed for his realistic depiction of life, expansive landscapes, dusks on the beach, and pigeons. He is an exponent of the Bangladesh's realism art movement, and the undisputed master when it comes to painting the eternal muse of every artist — the female form.

Freud's psychoanalysis on collecting and collectors is nothing short of bizarre. But that is Sigmud!