Azmin Azran

Fat shaming is a pattern of behaviour that shouldn't belong in our society.

Are things getting back to normal? Do I even dare entertain the thought?

For readers with a keen eye, or even a lazy one, this week’s SHOUT should look very different. It’s prettier, and it’s also an issue consisting only of fiction pieces.

The Internet has been on my mind this week. That is not to say it isn’t on my mind constantly, every breathing second of my life is spent thinking of things on the Internet, of how to be on the Internet. I even think about how others have been on the Internet and whether I like what I see.

I often think of my time at school like a wildlife documentary. Students are the dominant species of course, owning the space, adapting to the

11 European football giants and Tottenham announced to establish a “European Super League”.

In terms of national events, most of us won’t be experiencing anything nearly as important as the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence in our lifetimes.

"I am here, Pasha. Show yourself."

A young me in class 8 held strong prejudices against all studies that were not related to science. I didn’t know any better, to be honest.

No matter the curriculum or medium of education, schooling is deeply flawed in our country. It’s clear every time we take a daringly honest stroll down memory lane,

The night calls out with blaring horns, Trucks and buses and uncompromising scorns,

My mother tells me a story of the year I was born (some time before the turn of the millennia), and apparently, winter that year was insane.

The real entertainment is in the details, in the ball by ball action.

As a weekly publication, we always have opinions about the dates on which our magazine comes out. This week’s SHOUT gives us the opportunity to celebrate with our readers the end of 2020, a year that is unique in so many ways. I consider this to be a privilege.

It took me a long time to realise that creativity is a process. It feels stupid admitting this after seven years writing and editing for a magazine, but when I started at a tender age,

A small scale survey was conducted online to understand the underlying reasons behind the use of unethical measures in academic activities.

“Soon to be shadowed”—read the caption of an image on The Daily Star’s front page last week. It featured the iconic Shontrash Birodhi Raju Bhashkarja, and looming over it, the towering structures of Bangladesh’s first-ever metro rail, the MRT 6, still under construction. The image brought into focus an issue that has been a point of contention for the students of the University of Dhaka (DU) for four years now.

I walked out onto the balcony last night and felt a shiver down my spine. It was not simply because I am afraid of the dark. There was a different reason. It’s getting cold, folks.

Last year, activists Greta Thunberg of Sweden and Divina Maloum of Cameroon won this prize.

The result of the election affects those who study and want to study in the United States.