Once upon a time, when I was at DU
A university is often referred to an alma mater, literally a kind and nurturing mother. Just like our relationships with our mothers, each student also has a unique relationship with their university.
28 June 2021, 18:00 PM
What students don’t say
While most alumni of Dhaka University will tell you that they cherish the time spent there, our memories are tinted pink, through our glasses fashioned of nostalgia.
28 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Secret to Food Safety: The right processing and packaging
Concerns related to safe food processing, packaging and transport, while a constant area of monitoring and innovation, have come to the fore anew due to the Coronavirus pandemic that has gripped the world for over a year now.
6 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Kindness to all kinds
One of the silent and often unseen casualties of our towers and glass buildings are the birds of the regions.
24 May 2021, 18:00 PM
The prodigal son of Bangla literature: Michael Madhusudan Datta
While the great playwrights of various cultures wrote drama, Bengal Michael Madhusudan Datta truly lived it in his single-minded, flawed, but ultimately successful odyssey to greatness.
13 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Looking in, through the glass
But being denied an attainable dream, simply for your gender, or some prejudice enshrined in cultural heritage and traditions, can often feel terribly unfair and discouraging. One common manifestation of this phenomena can be termed as the glass ceiling, an amalgamation of the invisible and irrational barriers to women’s growth in the work place.
1 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Branding Bangladesh, one good brand at a time
With advances in local manufacturing, nearly all aspects of a consumer’s needs are easily met, without compromising on quality or taste! A simple systematic approach could easily demonstrate the sheer development in variety of local manufacturing and its impact on citizen mindset.
16 February 2021, 18:00 PM
The GI factor: Marking what is truly ours
What GI enlistment or tag does is that it allows customers and producers to create trust and confidence on the product’s authenticity and quality in internal or external markets. It helps create a reputation of the product, facilitating fairer prices and access to lager markets for the producers.
16 February 2021, 18:00 PM
What real women think, what real women do
“A whole generation worked to raise empowered women, but forgot to teach men to live with empowered women.”
16 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Women at work
There are multiple aspects to the barriers women face when they decide to work out of the house, be it for need or simply to pursue passions. Despite those facts,
16 February 2021, 18:00 PM
The young and educated farmer Key to revolutionised agriculture
If you have bought locally grown strawberries, or dragon fruit, or the out of season bottle gourd, and the luscious Thai guava all year round, you are already a beneficiary of the silent agri-revolution happening in Bangladesh.
16 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Lee cooper - British shoes that fit like a dream
What is better than getting shoes of one international brand in the nearly 200 branches of its eponymous chain shops across the country?
7 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Close to the breast: Discussing breast cancer with Prof Dr Anisur Rahman
October is marked as Breast Cancer Awareness Month globally every year. Then what better time than now to talk to an expert in this field?
19 October 2020, 18:00 PM
Back Home at United Hospital Dr A M Shafique
Conversations during appointments with United Hospital’s doctor A M Shafique usually go in a more serious vein — troubles of the heart that have nothing to do with romance. However, beyond the efficient and busy personas of doctors,
28 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Stress of the Zoom times
One of the programmes that suddenly came to light in the new normal is Zoom. Although just one of such platforms like Teams, Hangout,
14 September 2020, 18:00 PM
The good, the bad, the ugly of distance learning
One of the key changes wrought into the fabric of our lives after the coronavirus outbreak has been regarding education and the prevailing systems of education.
11 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Beni Boonon: Braiding jute and magic
Beni, or braids, invoke in my mind lustrous locks of hair, strands intertwined, to make intricate artistic patterns. The same idea translates to beautifully textured rugs, at Beni Boonon – worked on by 300 women artisans in a cottage industry in Savar.
22 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Help the helpers: support the extended hand
In these days of the pandemic, as we practice social isolation as a family, I have been the one designated with any tasks that required venturing out of the house.
18 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Looking for the silver lining
The effects of any crisis are manifold, and we will all have to face together the collective trauma that Covid-19 has inflicted. But from within the effects of these troubling times, we look for silver linings — the unexpected positive effects.
11 May 2020, 18:00 PM
A different Ramadan
Every year, particularly for Muslims, the countdown to Eid in the month of Ramadan is largely that — the Eid day! Do not get me wrong, there is nothing wrong about the anticipation or the celebration.
27 April 2020, 18:00 PM