Most Bangladeshi cricket fans remember that fateful defeat by Afghanistan in the Asia Cup last year. Just a few days back, at a warm-up match between Bangladesh and Ireland, the latter bagged a well-earned victory.

ARIES Facing difficulties? Stop complaining. The Irish have it worse.

The birth of rock ‘n’ roll was one of mankind's finest hours.

“Whiplash” follows the story of an ambitious 19-year-old music student striving to achieve greatness as a jazz drummer.

Trembling from the cheers of the crowd as you blaze through that Van Halen song; inducing awestruck silence as you land that last note on “November Rain” or just hoping to create some good music – whatever our motivation may be, most of us set out to master the guitar at some point in our lives. Yet, many of us quit at the early stages, closing the doors to what could've been.

A metronome is an essential item when you're learning any instrument.

While a rational human being shouldn't just “tolerate” the “other”, in today's polarized world even tolerance has seemingly become an unachievable goal.

T-shirts, jerseys, track pants and football shorts are good workout clothes for guys.

A few years ago I found the idea of babysitting fascinating and used to wish that is was a common part-time job here, like it is in the West.

SOME MATH

The human mind is a strange thing. We have all seen those posts that ask us where our concern for the plight of Gaza is now, and have we stopped caring about the Sundarbans and so on.

Jatratronica, organised by Goethe-Institut and Jatra Biroti (in Banani, Dhaka) on February 19, aimed to bring into focus the budding electronic music scenes of South Asia and Germany.

To me, a stereotypical English medium bred nerd, Bangla fiction was alien territory until a few years ago.

Live music at cafés is nothing new in Bangladesh.

Remember those comic books we were crazy about when we were kids? Even today those comic books may draw us more than regular books.

A few days ago, I was humming a tune. I got curious about the lyrics.

“Boshonto Boron” and Award Giving Ceremony 2015 was held on February 20, 2015 arranged by the Dept. of Physical Education at the permanent campus of Uttara University.

With the theme “Continents: Existence to obliteration”, this year, Earth Club of North South University launched 'Encounters 8' on February 20, 2015 at the NSU campus.

Apparently, older women here discourage girls from working out. They are of the opinion that if girls work out, then they will grow big and muscular.

The Pit Grill has always intrigued me. Being the first steak house in Dhanmondi, I felt a small piece of high-end Gulshan had made its way here, and I was eager to try. Thus, I made the journey one fine, winter night, but returned disappointed.