Naaz Fahmida

Workplace culture in Dhaka shows people pleasing, false urgency, identity struggles, and declining meaning at work. The piece urges authentic leadership from any position, promoting balance, purpose, and bottom up influence to drive systemic change.

Travelling with a baby becomes easier in Thailand, where family-friendly cities, Bangkok’s conveniences, Phuket’s resort comfort, and Chiang Mai’s creative adventures offer stress-free holidays for parents. Clean facilities, child-safe attractions, and budget-friendly options make Thailand an ideal first international trip for young families.

Books and movies make pregnancy seem like a bout of ill-health, involving sporadic fainting spells, morning sickness and dramatic mood swings. I experienced none of those.

The joy of going on a family trip is something that unless you have experienced being born and raised within the dynamics of an ever-expanding family, you simply would not understand. I was born into one, where anyone who came within close proximity became attached to the nucleus of our core family, like vines.

I was hesitant at the doorsteps of what was famously named after the street it was situated on, the 160-year-old Temple Bar of the Temple Bar neighbourhood in central Dublin, Ireland.

And although misadventures such as these can turn you into a storyteller overnight, precisely what I am doing right now, and can serve as a remedy to old age, I have heard, feel free to live vicariously through the horrors of my time to help decide what NOT to do!

When I touched down in Miami, as part of my first trip to America, there was no telling that I was in America at all. It could have been Puerto Rico or Cuba! This side to America is so distinct with a flavour uniquely its own – you have to see it to believe it.

Have you been to the most beautiful place on earth? I have. And no amount of photography or superlatives can be an exaggeration to its splendour in reality.