July then and now: Remembering the month that changed us
17 July 2026, 10:00 AM
Sometimes I find myself wondering what it must feel like to have July arrive without something tightening in one’s chest.
17 July 2026, 10:00 AM
15 years later, ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’ still finds new meaning
15 July 2026, 18:40 PM
The scenery still takes my breath away, the playlist still makes me want to pack a bag, and Farhan Akhtar’s poetry still lands exactly where it should. Yet every rewatch feels like a different film.
15 July 2026, 18:40 PM
‘Urban Images’ turns art into an act of solidarity
11 July 2026, 19:50 PM
Art has always found ways to document cities through the rhythms, fractures and quiet resilience that define urban life. Veteran artist Kazi Salahuddin Ahmed’s latest solo exhibition, “Urban Images”, does exactly that. Yet beyond the abstract compositions and layered cityscapes lies another, more immediate story—one of artists standing beside one another when it matters most.
11 July 2026, 19:50 PM
Why we keep falling for fictional boyfriends
7 July 2026, 11:15 AM
Then someone inevitably resurrects Mr Darcy, Jim Halpert or Aditya Kashyap to remind everyone that the blueprint existed long before TikTok edits.
7 July 2026, 11:15 AM
How movies shaped our career expectations
4 July 2026, 12:16 PM
Not just the love stories, the friendships, or the dramatic monologues in the rain, but the professions stitched into those narratives.
4 July 2026, 12:16 PM
Two BRACU underwater vehicles reach RoboSub 2026 semi-finals
3 July 2026, 20:02 PM
BRAC University's underwater robotics research team, BRACU Duburi, has qualified two autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for the semi-finals of RoboSub 2026, becoming one of only two teams worldwide to advance more than one vehicle to the next stage of the international competition.
3 July 2026, 20:02 PM
The rom-com watchlist for summer 2026
3 July 2026, 16:00 PM
Summer has always belonged to romance. Long evenings, spontaneous road trips, seaside cafés, weddings, festivals, and holidays create the perfect backdrop for stories that balance butterflies with belly laughs. The latest wave of rom-coms leans into that familiar comfort while embracing modern relationships, witty banter, and characters who feel wonderfully real. Whether you are planning a weekend binge or looking for the perfect comfort watch after a long day, these recent releases deserve a spot on your Summer 2026 watchlist.
3 July 2026, 16:00 PM
How films evolved from meet-cutes to mixed signals
1 July 2026, 19:28 PM
Modern romances are filled with unread messages, ghosting, dating apps, almost-relationships, emotional unavailability, and the dreaded question: “What are we?”
1 July 2026, 19:28 PM
A year wrapped in data, metrics, and gamified moments
We now live inside a series of dashboards. If Spotify is the most visible example, it is hardly alone. Everything from our sleep to our steps to our language-learning streaks comes with a neatly packaged scorecard at the end of the year.
29 December 2025, 05:18 AM
Christmas as we have seen it
In Bangladesh, however, Christmas occupies a different cultural register. It arrives through Netflix thumbnails, holiday episodes that resurface every December, mall décor inspired by Hollywood aesthetics, and Instagram captions borrowing emotions from films we have watched far more times than we admit.
25 December 2025, 04:55 AM
‘Pawmum Parban’ brings Mro children’s stories to Dhaka
There are exhibitions you walk into, and there are exhibitions that feel like you are stepping across a threshold into someone else’s world. “Pawmum Parban”, currently underway at Alliance Française de Dhaka, unfolds like the latter; carrying a depth that quietly rearranges how you look at a culture you thought you vaguely knew. I went in expecting an art show and left with the sense that a small group of children from the hills had succeeded in doing something the city often fails at: making us feel something beyond our own noise.
22 December 2025, 11:50 AM
Hadi’s death will haunt us forever
In July 2024, we, the Gen-Z, stepped into the streets, frightened yet resolute, wounded yet unwilling to break, because we believed Bangladesh could be rewired around dignity.
21 December 2025, 02:00 AM
The Gen Z guide to thriving in your first job
Your first job feels a bit like walking into adulthood with Google Maps turned on, praying the little blue dot knows where it is going. You are excited, anxious, overprepared in weird ways, and underprepared in the ways that matter.
18 December 2025, 03:47 AM
How rewatching became our default way to watch
Rewatching has quietly become one of the most dominant forms of entertainment consumption, even though it rarely gets framed that way. It is often dismissed as laziness, nostalgia, or lack of curiosity.
16 December 2025, 06:17 AM
The strange science behind Spotify Wrapped and its unexpected results
Real life is messy; algorithms tidy it up. Maybe that’s why we love Wrapped so much. Maybe that’s why we forgive it when it gets things wrong. And maybe that’s why we laugh every year when the Pritam meme resurfaces, because the truth is, no matter what we listen to, Wrapped tells us a story we are secretly eager to believe.
14 December 2025, 12:09 PM
More than just an obsession, fandom as a way of connection
In 2025, fandom is a central part of storytelling, and studios and creators design worlds that fans can live in, expand, debate, and emotionally inhabit. Stories are co-owned and these fandoms are where ownership is vocalised.
11 December 2025, 06:52 AM
Wickedly bound by female friendship
"Wicked" has spent two decades dismantling that framework. What began on Broadway as a renegade act of revisionism has now expanded on screen into Jon M Chu’s two-part cinematic saga, which is unhurried, emotionally layered, and audaciously uninterested in letting romance or heroism overshadow the real heart of Oz: the evolving, often painful bond between Elphaba and Glinda. Chu’s adaptation understands that audiences come pre-loaded with assumptions.
9 December 2025, 05:38 AM
‘Tamasha’ and the long road back to ourselves
The first time you watch it, it feels like a love story with a quirky adventure at the start. But the more your own life begins to scatter into contradictions and compromises, the more Imtiaz Ali’s world starts sounding familiar.
27 November 2025, 11:48 AM
The heart and horror of Frankenstein
Guillermo del Toro has spent most of his artistic life circling that question, and his new cinematic adaptation finally dives into it with both hands. It arrives like a long awaited confession. The result is a film that is lush, wounded, often brutal, and strangely hopeful, a vision that honours Shelley’s philosophical bones while draping them in del Toro’s unmistakable flesh.
25 November 2025, 06:09 AM
A historic verdict that carries weight even in absentia
The decision to hold Hasina accountable is not merely judicial but also personal.
18 November 2025, 13:00 PM
The Gen Z guide to financial sanity in your 20s
Financial sanity in our twenties is not about becoming a finance bro overnight or rejecting every impulse purchase that brings us joy. It is about building a system that can survive our bad weeks, unexpected expenses, and the constant oscillation between “I am going to be rich” and “why is everything so expensive?”
18 November 2025, 06:04 AM
What freedom looks like in Mira Nair’s films
In an industry often content to either idolise or invisibilise women, Nair managed to carve a cinematic language that neither glorifies nor redeems them. She allows them to take up space, to be complicated, to have appetites.
9 November 2025, 06:06 AM
The trouble with companies using AI for the sake of it
It has become almost fashionable for companies to claim they are using AI. Every boardroom, every quarterly report, every strategic offsite seems to revolve around the same language of transformation.
6 November 2025, 09:06 AM
The world still falls in love with Shah Rukh Khan
SRK is not just the last of the superstars because of what he has achieved, but because of how he has done it. In an era where stardom was built on distance, he created intimacy.
2 November 2025, 13:03 PM
Param Sundari charms, just not enough
It is a clever premise for a modern romance as a data-driven Delhi businessman finds his match through an algorithm, only to realise that love, unlike code, cannot be debugged.
1 November 2025, 10:47 AM
Bits of Halloween in Bangladesh’s ghostly lore
They emerge from social injustices, unfulfilled desires, and forgotten histories, and in their persistence, they remind us that the supernatural is often an allegory for the very real.
30 October 2025, 18:05 PM
Lights, camera, larceny
Last week’s Louvre heist, €88 million worth of jewels gone in minutes, reminded us why heist stories captivate audiences. They are a blend of tension, intellect, and style: a world in which every move counts, every second is choreographed, and every character has a role that feels indispensable.
28 October 2025, 12:04 PM
Twenty five years of believing in ‘Mohabbatein’
At the heart of "Mohabbatein" lies a cinematic optimism that feels almost extinct today. There was something beautifully naive about its conviction that love, not logic, not rebellion for rebellion’s sake, but pure, unfiltered love, could soften even the harshest hearts.
27 October 2025, 10:44 AM