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Mrittika Anan Rahman

Mrittika Anan Rahman is a daydreamer trying hard not to run into things while walking. Find her at mrittika.anan@gmail.com

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Music and play keep us human — our schools need them more than ever

Bangladesh should not make a move which will further deteriorate the quality of public school education
3 December 2025, 02:00 AM
3 December 2025, 02:00 AM
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Teaching in the age of AI

As fast as AI applications are evolving, we will need to find new solutions as we go and not get too comfortable with any temporary fixes.
9 October 2025, 04:00 AM
9 October 2025, 04:00 AM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Behind the screens: Unpacking the power of Bangladeshi TV ads

Consuming advertisements on television is a fixture of modern life—we are constantly aware when watching TV that we can buy more things, be better looking, have more fun, and treat ourselves to more.
10 January 2025, 18:00 PM
10 January 2025, 18:00 PM
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Navigating culture shock when moving abroad

Remember that you will feel isolated, you will feel homesick but know that it takes time for a new place to feel like home.
17 August 2023, 12:55 PM
17 August 2023, 12:55 PM
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MONSTERMANIA

Ghost stories for a local Halloween experience.
31 October 2022, 10:53 AM
31 October 2022, 10:53 AM
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Brahmastra: Bollywood’s failed superhero experiment?

How can one describe “Brahmastra” as anything but a Marvel movie set in India? Director Alejandro Iñárritu had famously labelled superhero movies as cultural genocide, adding “They have been poison… because the audience is so overexposed to plot and explosions… that mean nothing about the experience of being human.”
12 September 2022, 12:40 PM
12 September 2022, 12:40 PM
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Editorial

I’ve had to make countless adjustments to the way I go about my day thanks to my back pain. No high heels, no slouching, no watching TV from the living room couch, because there is no position of sitting on a sofa for more than 30 minutes that won’t cost me dearly.
30 June 2022, 00:00 AM
30 June 2022, 00:00 AM
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Is bite-sized news making us lazy readers?

Bite-sized news portals essentially operate as highlights, without the full story.
13 June 2022, 14:13 PM
13 June 2022, 14:13 PM
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A Guide to Baby Names for Millennial Parents

As a millennial you want to name your baby something unique. You’re horrified at your parents’ decisions to name you after random household objects like Shampoo, Shaban, Balti, and anything they found in their garden, like Apel, Peyara, and Lichu. How lazy.
6 November 2019, 18:00 PM
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Tailors Of Doom

Host: Hello, and welcome to another edition of TAILORS OF DOOM! [Audience claps and screams out name of the show in unison.]
30 October 2019, 18:00 PM
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The wheels of the bus go round and round

On a dark, stormy night in 1992, a bus full of passengers was speeding in Dhaka roads when a cement truck collided with it. The bus spun uncontrollably and crashed tragically into the lake next to the road but when locals rushed to the area the bus and its passengers were nowhere to be seen. The divers searched in vain.
30 October 2019, 18:00 PM
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CLIMATE CRISIS AND ITS YOUTH ICONS

Eight-year old Esme Ruiz attending the climate strike outside the UN Headquarters in New York told the press, “The world is literally melting right in front of our eyes and no one even realises it. We need to teach them. It’s hard to make changes sometimes, but if you need to save the world, I’d do it rather than die.”
25 September 2019, 18:00 PM
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Exploring Family Relationships as an Adult

When we were six years old, we would show up to events at our relatives’ houses hand in hand with our parents dressed head to toe in clothes that reflected whatever mood our moms were in. You had a very good chance of wearing matching outfits with your sibling.
25 September 2019, 18:00 PM
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READING REALLY DIFFICULT LITERATURE

I doth not understandeth wherefore these texts needeth to beest so difficult. There are many reasons one can be completely clueless in class but as an English Literature major,
18 September 2019, 18:00 PM
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Job interview through Facebook captions

Interviewer: Hi Anika. Thank you for interviewing for the position today. Are you nervous?
4 September 2019, 18:00 PM
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PLANNING TRIPS WITH YOUR FRIENDS

Four best friends were finally chatting over coffee at their usual spot after exams were over.
28 August 2019, 18:00 PM
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Cooking in the middle of the night

When I’m up really late at night, I almost always want a midnight snack and up until recently my go-to was packaged food, leftovers or a giant slab of Nutella on anything remotely edible.
28 August 2019, 18:00 PM
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The Problem with Remakes

Recently, the Internet has been ablaze with outraged netizens over the reported casting of an African American actress to play Ariel in
31 July 2019, 18:00 PM
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WHOSE CONTENT IS IT ANYWAY?

When it comes to entertainment, the demand for pirated content remains in Bangladesh despite the availability of a number of legal alternatives. Streaming services officially available in Bangladesh such as Iflix, Gaan and ones that aren’t such as Netflix has not cured
24 July 2019, 18:00 PM
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UNIQUE EVENT PLANNERS

Welcome to Unique Event Planners! At Unique Event Planners we specialise in handling the trickiest of events so no matter how awkward or risky your occasion is, trust us when we say we have seen and lived through worse. Sit back, commit to one of our
24 July 2019, 18:00 PM
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4 Humayun Ahmed Comedies That Deserve a (Re)watch

Here are some of the wackiest and most absurd situations that can only be experienced in a Humayun Ahmed drama.
17 July 2019, 18:00 PM
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STRUGGLES OF THE PERPETUALLY CLUMSY

I find very little time to devote to a hobby or learn a new skill because most of my time is spent tripping down stairs, being eternally scared the elevator doors are going to hit me as they close or sitting in a car terrified because each bump on the road is another chance my coffee is going to spill out of its cup and on me.
3 July 2019, 18:00 PM
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WE’RE ALL JUST TOO INTO IT

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley said that ‘the beginning is always today’ but for those of us who better know that life truly begins when you successfully enter a relationship.
3 July 2019, 18:00 PM
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HIGH SEAS More drama, less mystery

Murders, family secrets, a wedding and a voyage - Netflix’s latest Spanish period drama ‘High Seas’ (or Alta Mar) (both dubbed and
26 June 2019, 18:00 PM
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Snail mail My (mostly) failed experiment

My knowledge about sending mail is limited strictly to how it’s portrayed in the wizarding world. If I am writing a letter I assume there
26 June 2019, 18:00 PM
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ALADDIN We know the story and we’ll watch it anyway

How do you draw audience to theatres when they already know the full plot of a movie? Simply banking on nostalgia is a risk Disney
12 June 2019, 18:00 PM
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THE GAME OF GAWSIA

In a galaxy far far away lies the Bangladeshi equivalent of Mordor, the land known as Gawsia. Feared by many but revered by even more, the strange land seemed like a completely different planet. One fateful day, four friends took it upon themselves to bravely venture into the heart of this land they’d heard so much about.
22 May 2019, 18:00 PM
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TIME TRAVEL IN ROM COMS: AN ANALYSIS

Is the real reason why your life’s quest of finding true love is so difficult because you only have one shot? Rom-coms at times have an
15 May 2019, 18:00 PM

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