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Raian Abedin

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POETRY / Your hands shook the whole time

Winters feel less like winters, the sun burns on my fragile skin. December. Tell me it’s
12 September 2025, 18:54 PM
12 September 2025, 18:54 PM
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Student involvement in policy and politics

The future of Bangladesh, much like its history, would have students’ voices guiding it. At least, that was what many of them hoped for.
7 August 2025, 06:46 AM
7 August 2025, 06:46 AM
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One year post-uprising: How do students view Bangladesh today?

How much of the students' expectations after the uprising have been fulfilled?
7 August 2025, 00:00 AM
7 August 2025, 00:00 AM
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The reality of internships for Life Sciences students

With cutthroat global competition and a lack of streamlined infrastructure locally, students often find themselves questioning where to go and whether their degrees are even worth it.
10 July 2025, 05:00 AM
10 July 2025, 05:00 AM
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POETRY / Things I have had to forfeit and things I am unable to find

Patience, like moss, that grows on red soil. Conversations with friends, like inadequate breakfast.
4 July 2025, 18:52 PM
4 July 2025, 18:52 PM
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How to: live

My love always arrived wrapped in silence, wrapped in dust. But that was childhood.
26 June 2025, 10:19 AM
26 June 2025, 10:19 AM
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Sinners is Ryan Coogler’s magnum opus

The story of Sinners shines because of its insistence on straying away from genre conventions.
23 June 2025, 13:11 PM
23 June 2025, 13:11 PM
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Andor Season 2 imagines Star Wars at its most devastating

Very few shows are written with the level of competency as Andor
11 June 2025, 12:21 PM
11 June 2025, 12:21 PM
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Baby killed/baby found dead: On the use and abuse of language

To the politicians and their vetoes and dismissals of any proposals that might bring some change—what language do you use with them? What of their language that otherises an entire people to dehumanise them?
1 March 2024, 04:45 AM
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The lack of fantasy at Boi Mela

With Ekushey Boi Mela now in full swing, the excitement surrounding the discovery of new releases should be hanging palpably in the air.
21 February 2024, 18:00 PM
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Matching university education with contemporary needs

Tertiary education and the outcome provided by it are factors that are constantly in need of revision. In today’s world where new in-demand jobs and special fields of expertise explode into popularity at unprecedented rates, universities have a responsibility to respond by adapting quickly and efficiently.
17 February 2024, 18:00 PM
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Prospects of studying Fashion Design in Bangladesh

For fashion designers or those aspiring to be one, the journey may be long and arduous in Bangladesh.
15 February 2024, 11:09 AM
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The publishing journey for young writers

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen a major decrease in not just the number of books being published per year, but also in the profits made by publishing houses.
8 February 2024, 00:00 AM
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James Joyce was never more profound than in 'Dubliners'

The universality of Dubliners is found not just in its structure as a short story collection, but also in the minute details of the way the people inhabit the stories, the city, and the world at large. The way they breathe help the city come to life, and the geography of the city has never been better realised by Joyce than right here
4 February 2024, 12:31 PM
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Circular

In abated breaths in freshly-packed, measly-charged tin can rides across the city, two lovers held hands, as if they were born that way.
26 January 2024, 18:00 PM
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The diverse world of Public Health and why you should care

Public Health as a field is vast and houses anyone willing to bring about positive impacts at societal levels. 
11 January 2024, 00:00 AM
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Campus picks the best movies of 2023

Here are a few movies that have moved us deeply, enough to land as our favourites of the year.
30 December 2023, 09:56 AM
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Why university students should consider using AI in research

While some may say that using AI is ethically dubious, popular research journals have already started conversations on how to use it.
14 December 2023, 00:00 AM
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On the many flavours of horror in children’s literature

What do we make of the mysterious thread that connects these stories not by genre, but by an imagination so wondrous they leave room for an underlying horror, and the many things that can mean?
5 December 2023, 13:45 PM
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They raise their fists. Inside, I fall asleep to the sound of rain

The dumpster diver and the plastic smoker raised their fists. I was in the solemn, trapped
1 December 2023, 18:00 PM
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Microbiology vs Biotechnology vs Biochemistry: Which major suits you best?

Biochemistry as a field is a fascinating foray into the chemical reactions of biological molecules.
12 October 2023, 00:00 AM
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The Case for Science Communication and Science Writing

Maintaining scientific communication through science writing seems to suffer from a lack of attention.
5 October 2023, 13:03 PM
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Music and the space it creates for literature

I cannot, for the life of me, definitively describe what makes music. Growing up in a family where music of any form was not typically paid any reverence, my exposure to it was tunnelled into mainstream pop songs for the longest time.
4 October 2023, 18:00 PM
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T.S. Eliot and on living in unreal cities

I once again find myself drawn to "The Waste Land"—though this isn’t about just the one poem, not really—where so much of the old world exists in motifs in a tattered landscape.
26 September 2023, 15:55 PM
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How to build a career in healthcare technology

Broad in nature yet with a common goal, the world of healthcare technology is involved in developing and making use of modern technological innovations to further the world of healthcare.
18 September 2023, 13:17 PM
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The beauty of translation and Tagore’s lyricism

"This book is a way for me to express my own emotions associated with Tagore’s lyrics”, Fakrul Alam shared his thoughts at the launch of 'Gitabitan'.
11 September 2023, 22:00 PM
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Five amazing board and card games worth checking out

Here are five amazing board and card games that are worth checking out.
31 August 2023, 11:34 AM
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Past Lives is a quietly brilliant display of yearning for love

With Past Lives, Celine Song provides a story that is as quiet as it is potently emotional.
30 August 2023, 10:30 AM

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