Rasha Jameel

A collection of our freedom's history.

There's nothing in the world that can keep me from obsessing over food.

Since when did we actually see a high school on TV that resembled where we went to as kids?

Are you trying to lose an unrealistic amount of weight? Are you trying to adhere to a problematic standard of beauty? Are you trying to bulk up?

For World Children’s Day on Friday, November 20, Daily Star Books speaks to contemporary and veteran authors, publishers, and readers of children’s literature written in Bangladesh.

Mental health issues have been pivotal aspects in books and cinema for a long time. However, the accuracy with which mental health issues are portrayed is a different story.

When I was a child, every night, I’d ask my parents to tell me a story when they tucked me into bed. From talking trees to scheming foxes, the mystical realm of Bengali folklore was a bottomless well from which my pre-adolescent mind drank with thirst. It led me to what can only be deemed as the Holy Grail of Bengali folklore: Thakurmar Jhuli (1907).

You owe it to yourself to investigate the facts and figures you've consumed all day long.

Here's what baffled me when Netflix's Bulbbul (2020) premiered — people refusing to address the film as a part of the "horror" genre.

I'd written "We stan a quirky kween" on a YouTube video of an Indian-Canadian woman. My friends had opened a Facebook group to advocate for feminism in Bangladesh. Let that sink in.

When I was in 9th grade, a friend introduced me to the works of director Lars von Trier, starting with the film Dogville (2003). I’d never seen a feature film play out so well, in such intensity, with nothing but a largely empty sound stage for a film set.

Online learning has drawn criticism in Bangladesh primarily due to our unfamiliarity surrounding the concept, having never been attempted before in this magnitude.

Romanticism is a movement that originated in 18th century Europe and refers to the widespread practice of glorifying past experiences by addressing them as "inspirational". It's basically how our collective perception of aestheticism in today's "hashtag era" was birthed.

“A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”

This is what it looks like to judgemental acquaintances.

He’s mysterious. He’s charming. He’s strong, skilled and agile. He makes you think of James Bond, or perhaps Jason Bourne.

I yawned and tried to make sense of my current situation, knowing I wasn't the only one attempting to dissect her life at 3.11 AM. So how did we end up here?

For as long as I can remember, my grandfather would tell me about the events surrounding his migration from Sahasram, a city in Bihar, India.

Motherhood is a concept that is difficult to define and grasp for those that haven’t experienced it. Even for those who have, the definition differs from house to house,

Ramadan for women has never been the same as that for men.