Fourteen-year-old Suraiya Akter Risha was just another Dhaka teen – a happy child who would plan a fun weekend with friends and family members, a top achiever at school, maybe even a crazy cricket fan and a music lover – she was just another girl from next doors.

The first time I saw The Vagina Monologues being performed, was at a women's day event in Yorkshire in 2009.

On the occasion of the 40th death anniversary of Kazi Nazrul Islam, a major exponent of Nazrul and a famous Bangladeshi singer of Nazrul compositions, Sadya Afreen Mallick was recently awarded the Nazrul Award 2015.

There are more than fifty restaurants, countless food carts in Satmasjid Road of Dhaka's Dhanmondi neighbourhood alone.

COMMUNICATION SUMMIT 2016

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them.

In August, the Indian subcontinent was decisively divided after two hundred years of British rule. This division, the product of a long

A Facebook post by a Pune-based banker and mother Swati Chitalkar, whose child was unwell with fever on August 16, recently made

How the Steel was Tempered

“Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic...” – Van Morrison

Phones are what peoples' lives, in this day and age, revolve around. From the most private of details, to the most exclusive of news

I was never much of a tech-savvy person. Even when I was younger, I never fell into the hype of the newest trendy phones. Since I got

In 1835 the General Committee of Public Interaction submitted a proposal to Lord William Bentinck, asking to

The Girl on the Train' is a psychological thriller which will definitely keep you stuck to your seat for the longest time.

So many times, countless actually, people have come to me and said, 'reading is just not my thing', or 'reading is

One of man's oldest and unattained curiosities is to know what lies in the future for him. Even the most advanced

A Bangladeshi celebration of any kind is incomplete without the song 'Abaar elo je shondhya'; a child growing up

PEARLS OF WISDOM

Bangladesh experienced three devastating floods in 1954, 1955 and 1988. In 1955 due to the rolling water from the

Most theories of motivation have championed the pleasure principle, where our choices of daily activities aim to