Azmin Azran

Experiences at the DITF that unite the people who call Dhaka their home.

See if this sounds familiar. You are a young adult who’s grown up in Dhaka. You have visited places around the country, or maybe even around the world with your family, but the city is the only place you’ve stayed in for a prolonged period of time.

The chilly winds of early November

There’s a point in space where two lines meet, An angle, a corner, a bedazzling cosmic feat.

I am scared of lizards. The common house lizard will send me jumping out of my seat running to the nearest lizard free spot I can find.

There’s a Bangla proverb that has something to do with small chillies being spicier that used to gross me out once upon a time.

I write to you from the comfort of my work chair. It’s a good chair, it has arm rests and the back support is slightly inclined. Although it ends halfway up my back when I sit up straight and I wish it didn’t, I’m okay with it.

I’ve always loved the news. One of my early memories is watching the news that came on in our living room TV with my father, and at

The attempted music floating out of the barbershop was positively ghastly, but I had no choice other than to keep approaching it.

The most stressful period of my life by far has been the time I sat for my HSC. It was the worst of times, and no, in no way was it the best of times. I sort of scraped through it in 2017, and having had two years to reflect upon (read: recover from) this crazy ordeal, there are a couple of things I'd like to share.

“What do people do in offices?” a friend recently asked in a group chat. While the answer to this question seems obvious and one

If you've been told that your field of study is going to be rendered obsolete within the next two decades because of the rise of AI, you've allowed yourself to be misled. AI will replace humans in a lot of jobs that humans are hired to do today,

I remember the first time I saw Rafiul bhai. We just moved into our new Mirpur house, and I accompanied my mom when she decided to visit our next door neighbours. Rafiul bhai was sitting in front of a

I write from my experience of being part of the most recent batch of HSC graduates, and being familiar with people a couple of years either side of my own age, question leaks isn't a new phenomena. It has been there as a thorn at the side of students for at least 5 years (in its current form of online leakage), but has taken an abnormally long time to find the public spotlight it merits.

The Bangladesh national cricket team is without a coach again, and an array of experienced foreigners are being interviewed for the job while former captain Khaled Mahmud Sujon acts as interim coach.

It's a well-known scenario when a young man or even a middle aged one can be seen feeling distraught because a lack of facial hair has diminished his standing in the world as a male.

There are 40 public universities in Bangladesh, a couple of international universities, and 92 private ones (as of February 2016).

I'm one of those people who could listen to Josh Homme scratch a chalk board with his nails and then go, “This is the sort of innovation that makes Joshua a musical genius.”

Jalal ud-Din Muhammad was the name Mughal Emperor Akbar was born with; it was also the name of a man clinging for life to a sewage pipe, hanging from the side of a five storey building in the middle of the night in a dingy neighbourhood inside the city that was first established in the name of Akbar's son.

As the sales at sweetshops return back to normal, the dancing students in schoolyards go back home to prepare for admission tests...