LALBAGH FORT

The half-completed Lalbagh Fort and its well-tended gardens are an excuse to escape Old Dhaka's hustle and bustle for an hour or so.
9 April 2015

SPREADING THE GOOD WORD

A few days back, a Facebook post shared by Marina Mahathir, the renowned Malaysian socio-political activist and daughter of the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Mahathir Mohammad, was re-posted by many others.
9 April 2015

Fat, Skinny, or Beautiful?

JK Rowling once asked, “Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.”
9 April 2015

IN DEFENCE OF CARBOHYDRATES

My name is Nadia Kabir Barb and I am a carboholic. There I said it, it's official.
9 April 2015

MAILBOX

Rebuilding the Nation's Backbone
9 April 2015

CREATING A MAGICAL CHILDHOOD

“Writing for children is something very special. When I try to depict their child-like dreams, their innocence and imagination in my writing, what I enjoy most is that I start to think like them”, says Ashique Mustafa,
9 April 2015

About Town

MASTERCRAFTSPERSONS AWARD AND CRAFTS FAIR 2015
9 April 2015

DREAMING OF A BETTER LIFE

In a family of eight brothers, three brothers- Mohammad Aftab, Mohammad Samsad, and Mohammad Nausad, owners of Fayzany Madina Biryani House, grew up struggling for basic rights.
9 April 2015

SNAPSHOT

“When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself 'Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!'” ~Henri Rousseau
9 April 2015

1 MINUTE PLEASE!

Konal is a popular household name today, especially after her lively anchoring of the Shera Kontho, a children's singing competition on Channel i.
2 April 2015

SNAPSHOT

“There is magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.”
2 April 2015

MAILBOX

The Meaning of Independence
2 April 2015

GEAR UP!

Despite the progressive rise in our literacy rate, and increased globalisation designed to promote modernisation and forward thinking, many of our countrymen simply refuse to come out of their caves.
2 April 2015

HEALTHY HABITS

Be it our laziness or the fear of not being able to have midnight snacks after brushing at night, we often neglect to brush our teeth before going to bed.
2 April 2015

Numbers 150

A plane carrying 150 people crashed in the French Alps last week en route to Düsseldorf, Germany, from Barcelona, Spain.
2 April 2015

REBUILDING THE NATION'S BACKBONE

Bombs going off in all directions, buses burning, parents caught in the middle rushing to shelter children on way back from school, and of course, the frequent date changes of the SSC exams - the last couple of months were disastrous for the Secondary School Certificate examinees.
2 April 2015

About Town

Bengal Cinematheque
2 April 2015

DAMAGE CONTROL

school can be built in a matter of days, and already many students are starting to attend classes in existing schools.
2 April 2015

SOS!

A glimpse into the lives of people stranded in the Geneva Camps has shown us the deplorable state in which they have been living for 43 years.
2 April 2015

COMPANY CLAIMS THEIR FLYING CAR WILL HIT MARKETS IN TWO YEARS

While "Back to the Future" may have been the trigger for many people's dreams of owning a flying car, the idea has actually been floating around the minds of man since not long after cars became widely available at the beginning of the 20th century.
2 April 2015