Azmin Azran

It’s happened again, folks. The news cycle, on a break from usual dourness, has taken a turn for the morbid. A slew of horrible things have taken place at once, at home, around the world, and in our collective consciousness.

The politics in the US and the coverage surrounding it makes for excellent entertainment, at least from an outsider’s point of view.

If you are a person who loves building things and is interested in channelling their creativity through the games they play, Cities: Skylines is the best thing you could ever ask for.

“Hey, Azmin. Nice magazine you got there!”

I love cities. I love finding out about all the different cities of the world, what makes a metropolis special and unique, I like thinking about what it is about the people living in a certain place that makes a place a certain way.

This week’s cover story on SHOUT is one of our many articles discussing the state of education in this country, something we deeply care about as a youth publication.

It’s gotten to a stage where reality is becoming hard to grasp. I know that sounds alarmist and people often say these things without meaning them, but let me explain.

There’s a subset of people who started watching Premier League football in the mid-2000s, whose first FIFA World Cup was Germany 2006,

If you asked me what I think a writer is, I’d say a writer is someone who can tell tales that are worth listening to, for someone, somewhere,

When did you open your Facebook account?

In a video message shared with students over TikTok, Vice Chancellor of Basindhara University, Professor Dr Md Fatiul Islam, PhD, MSc, BEd, MFeel, RTruth, announced that tuitions for the fall semester will be slashed by 20 percent.

Social media moves at a mind boggling pace. It’s literally mind boggling because if you tried to keep up with every trend or every story that’s in the conversation, you will get confused, dizzy, and eventually sick. It is known.

This past month, I think I spent the most time with my parents since I was a toddler. And that brought me to a realisation. Millennials and

These are unprecedented times. It really is, I asked my parents and they don’t remember a global pandemic. I looked at the history books and

The pressure to be productive during this period of self-isolation is one of the daftest things I have ever seen. This is preceded by the assumption that everyone’s at home having a great time, which is also one of the daftest things

The study of history has been a lifelong area of interest for me. Invariably, one stumbles upon the question of what purpose it serves. A lot of people think that history repeats itself. Some people like to think history will give you a basis on which to build identities for the future.

“It actually feels like my windpipe is contracting and not letting any air pass through.”

A seemingly random YouTube channel, one might watch one of their videos and be forgiven for thinking that “robelinda2” is one of

By the time this issue of SHOUT goes out, it will have sunk in. But as I’m writing this, Bangladesh U19 men’s cricket team have won the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup less than 24 hours ago and I am unable to process this. It’s had the effect of making me smile every time my mind has drifted towards cricket this past day, and Akbar Ali’s heroics seems to be what everyone is talking about. What a time to be alive!

I recently left Dhaka for a couple of days. I was coming back into the city on a long haul bus, entering through Sayedabad, and the image that hit me was striking.