Leading the World through Media

The country's largest media summit "NNO presents COMBINED MEDIA SUMMIT 2020" was held from July 25-26, 2020 to highlight the media and its importance at home and abroad with the slogan "Leading the world through Media".
30 July 2020, 18:21 PM

A noble initiative by CIDER

CIDER International School, Chittagong has taken the responsibility for the education of the children of the members of the Chittagong Metropolitan Police family who died due to Covid-19.
30 July 2020, 18:12 PM

Be Ready for the Future

Dhaka University Entrepreneurship Development Club (DUEDC) organized one of the largest international entrepreneurship summits in the history of University of Dhaka.
30 July 2020, 17:52 PM

A Bittersweet Love Affair

Some stories just write themselves.
29 July 2020, 18:00 PM

False Positive × Masks

The light that drenched the man on the rooftop had no warmth to it. The light shifted and morphed with the changing visuals on the billboard,
29 July 2020, 18:00 PM

It Rains When I Write

And so it finally rains, it finally rains when I write.
29 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Enigma

What was it like, meeting you?
29 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Fireflies

What is it about fireflies?
29 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Shorolipi

Lipi runs and runs, determined to get as far away from where she started as possible. She could feel all her pain infuse into her tears and stream violently down her face, subsiding that sunken feeling in her chest.
29 July 2020, 18:00 PM

The Background

The fading away seemed palpable to me. It was a tangible rope on a continuous journey of gliding away. A force pushing me back while I tried to hold on until at one point I slipped way back into the background.
29 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Quarantine in Two Cities

The pandemic does not discriminate, whether you live in Dhaka or New York City.
29 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Season of the Black Leopard

Black. Glossy in the moonlight. Its white whiskers asserting an implicit, involuntary dominance. Its supple body effortlessly sliding up and down the teak trees that are abundant here. A shadow – a dark emissary of the night – drifting among the plant kingdom like a fugitive.
29 July 2020, 18:00 PM

A Serenade of the Sedulous

"You know," I said, opening my backpack. "Maybe I will work from here today, listen to your story and write something on it."
29 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Public Universities in Changing Times

Today's Echoes tries to explore where constraints lie for public universities. It's based on the experience of economics students of Jahangirnagar, Barisal, Mawlana Bhashani and BUP.
22 July 2020, 18:00 PM

It’s a frozen fascination

Think about it; do you really love the same flavours now, that you did when you were 12? Or has your taste palette evolved, so to speak?
22 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Editorial

We have something special for you next week.
22 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Music of summer days and winter nights

Embers in Snow is the solo musical project of singer/songwriter Rakat Zami who has been a part of the underground indie scene of Bangladesh for about a decade now.
22 July 2020, 18:00 PM

This Eid, avoid the Cowvid

The disease is already widespread among humans, and the group fears that with the arrival of Eid, this disease will spread to cows too through the interaction between the two species.
22 July 2020, 18:00 PM

The gaping holes in our history lessons

Perhaps if my eighth grade teacher hadn't so deeply venerated Churchill as a hero and unabashedly glorified the contributions of the British Empire, I would understand much sooner that there's more to Zainul Abedin's 1943 Bengal famine paintings than a couple of starving children on the streets.
22 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Why do bad movies have cult followings?

When The Room first came out back in 2003 it was met with raucous laughter from critics and audiences. But as time went on it eventually formed a fanbase with it getting sold out midnight screenings each month around the US.
22 July 2020, 18:00 PM