Kaleidoscope of flowers
17 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Life & Living
musing / A small step to self-sufficiency
6 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Life & Living
musing / So old-fashioned!
29 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Life & Living
Monsoon and memories
22 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Life & Living
#Perspective / A Father’s Day tribute to Don Corleone
15 June 2020, 18:00 PM
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Musing / Rise of the Covidiots
6 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Life & Living
musing / Reasons to love the holiday season
20 January 2020, 18:00 PM
Life & Living
musing / You are what you make
20 January 2020, 18:00 PM
Life & Living
musing / A decade’s worth of friends
6 January 2020, 18:00 PM
Life & Living
musing / Kidulting: Growing up to grow down
25 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Life & Living
Melodrama overdose
Perhaps there is not a single household left today in Bangladesh where at least one female member is not engrossed with soppy TV serials and their melodrama.
17 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Stronger than a sword
“Ceasar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen,” Marcus Valerius Martial Pens and their owners, with a flourish here and a twist there, have shaped history, spurred revolutions, formed nations, and created great works of art, with lasting effects on the collective human psyche.
19 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Happy days at school time
The days were full of sunshine and laughter. Teachers in huge can-cans taught us, as if by magic. What they taught us was simple.
19 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Raise a child who loves nature
Our ancestors picked wild berries, hunted untamed animals, caught fish in lakes, and scooped up water from streams to quench their thirst and satiate their hunger.
19 September 2016, 18:00 PM
GOLDEN AGE
Golden Age is when one dotes on one's grand-children and is polite and correct with one's son -in -law.
15 August 2016, 18:00 PM
CNG all day, everyday!
One deals with CNGs whether one is going short distances or long. The one I had to deal with coming to office detoured four times...
8 August 2016, 18:00 PM
'Tagore considered death a sequential journey'
For over three decades, Mita Haq has been enthralling audiences with her rendition of Tagore songs. Born in 1962, Mita Haq received training from maestros such as late Waheedul Haq, Dr. Sanjida Khatun and Ustad Mohammad Hossain Khan. She has 14 solo musical albums released from HMV and Visva Bharati Music Board, India, and 10 released in Bangladesh.
4 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Small acts of piety
It is important to remember that the festivities of Eid are not just about our nearest and dearest, but serve also an opportunity to share the joy with all those who help us in our day to day lives.
4 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Eid Day Magic
Eid is almost here and there is a lot to be thankful for. First of all, the streets are going to be empty and for anyone living through countless hours of Dhaka traffic...
4 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Whatever happened to reading for pleasure?
I grew up reading a lot of books. Reading is an old habit and a way for me to get away -- sometimes from problems, sometimes from reality and sometimes even from myself, and become immersed in a completely different world.
30 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Oh, limes and lemons!
Lemon was always just lemon to me. When I lived in Bangladesh, I wasn't even aware of the difference between a lime and a lemon.
23 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Hard life of a struggling writer
A bit of background – Ikhtisad Ahmed is a writer, playwright and poet. He is the author of Cryptic Verses and Requiem, two poetry collections...
9 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Mother knows best
“But didn't we just have Mother's Day?” some of you may be asking.
2 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Driving in Dhaka
Have you ever taken a drive out of Dhaka? If you have then you will know that the highways in Bangladesh have more twists and turns
21 March 2016, 18:00 PM
What Happened To Happily Ever After?
For all of my 20-something years, I have been a hopeless romantic. Give me all the romance novels and movies that there are and I will devour them with zeal and passion hitherto unknown, may God bless my tender heart!
7 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Love for bhapa
The easiest thing to do was to enter the comforting land of denial.
29 February 2016, 18:00 PM
My mother, my love
Sometimes the emptiness one feels for the recently demised can only be compensated with warm emotions and memories of the past which we carry for the rest of our lives.
4 January 2016, 18:00 PM
By the beach
I'm on the longest beach in the world right now. It has been a while since I last came here, almost eight years I think.
4 January 2016, 18:00 PM
New Years do's and don'ts
Yet another year has passed me by. Like any other year, this one has had its share of ups and downs. Throughout I've made memories...
28 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Santa in the flesh
It is that time of year again. Winter is here and Christmas is only just a few days away. It's about time you knew, that scientists
21 December 2015, 18:00 PM