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Confusion between media, message, and personal bias abound in Zyma Islam's article, "Whimsical, political, subversive: A review of

“Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them.” — Arundhati Roy

This year alone has witnessed the DMCH succesfully perform three rare surgeries.

August 26, 2017. The morning started like any other at Shikderpara village in Maungdaw town. He was preparing to visit his paddy fields where around 400 maunds of rice were almost ready to be harvested next month.

I woke up one day with a song stuck in my head. For the longest time, I couldn't recall where it was from. After two hours of obsessive tinkering on YouTube, I found that what I was remembering was one of the catchiest tunes from a Star Ship commercial of the 90s that would appear on BTV.

My heartfelt congratulations and thanks to the Star Weekend team for coming up with an issue dedicated to the partition of the

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.” ― Heraclitus, Fragments

Envisaged as vast, impregnable structures in their inception, walls have been proclaimed to defend realms and their inhabitants from invaders for time immemorial. The same can be said to apply to the Wall in George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, televised on-screen as Game of Thrones.

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Failure of flood embankments and absence of alternative solutions are leading Bangladesh to a watery grave.

Statistics related to floods and cyclones display a dramatic increase in intensity in the last three decades in Bangladesh and experts fear that the trend is likely to get worse.

An advertising agency in Thailand has developed a “smart vest” that potentially could turn stray dogs into guardians of Bangkok’s streets and alleyways.

Leather factories polluting again

Dhola Babu was the most prized possession of cattle farmer Abdus Sabur. At only two-and-a-half years, Dhola Babu, the Friesian bull had gained a staggering 1200 kilograms of muscle.

It's no wonder that enrolment in science has been on the decline over the decades in such a “demotivating” education system which is prevailing in Bangladesh.

“The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.” ― Gilles Deleuze

Rafique Ahmed sits relishing his 300 taka coffee. An employee at a top MNC, Rafique is one of thousands of citizens affected by the latest law that resulted in the federalisation of the VIP areas of the country.

Courtesy of studying and working in different countries, the vast majority of my half-a-decade long marriage has been long distance.

Where have the fish in the Buriganga gone? Bubbling with rich, garish tones that can belie the grim reality, the waters of the Buriganga, once the lifeblood of the capital, tell our very own tale of woe.