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Off Campus / Delving into Bangalee folklore through the world of Goheen

5 March 2026, 10:00 AM
Goheen is a card game built around characters and creatures from Bangalee folklore.
5 March 2026, 10:00 AM
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Anime / Why Love Through a Prism is this season’s quiet standout

26 February 2026, 14:09 PM
A quiet, romantic anime blending art school melodrama with breathtaking landscapes.
26 February 2026, 14:09 PM
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FROM PAGES TO PIXELS / A dream rewritten: Rokeya’s radical vision and its cinematic afterlife

5 February 2026, 00:00 AM
“There is no place on earth where women are safe,” declares Inés, the protagonist of Isabel Herguera’s animated film Sultana’s Dream (2023).
5 February 2026, 00:00 AM
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ESSAY / The anti-dystopia: Why solarpunk is the future of science fiction

29 January 2026, 16:00 PM
For years, speculative dystopian fiction has trained readers to expect the worst: scorched planets, collapsing governments, ruthless technologies, and futures where survival is the only victory left. Solarpunk pushes back against that narrative. Instead of asking how the world ends, it asks a far more radical question: what if we fix it? What if cities worked with nature instead of against it? What if technology served communities, not corporations? And what if hope wasn’t naive, but necessary?
29 January 2026, 16:00 PM
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EVENT REPORT / NSU DEML Winter Fest 2025 celebrates storytelling, art, and youth voices

14 December 2025, 08:17 AM
North South University’s Department of English and Modern Languages (DEML) concluded its first-ever Winter Fest spanning December 10-11, bringing together literature, performance, film, and visual art in a two-day celebration of creative expression on campus.
14 December 2025, 08:17 AM
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NEWS REPORT / NSU’s DEML ‘Winter Fest’ to debut with art, literature, and campus-wide celebrations

9 December 2025, 13:02 PM
A lively winter fair will present locally crafted accessories and seasonal favourites, celebrating community creativity and winter warmth
9 December 2025, 13:02 PM
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EVENT REPORT / Zia Haider Rahman on his award-winning novel at NSU’s Colloquium series

7 November 2025, 11:48 AM
The Department of English and Modern Languages (DEML) at North South University hosted a session of its Colloquium series titled “Zia Haider Rahman in Conversation with Dr Nazia Manzoor” on Tuesday, this week.
7 November 2025, 11:48 AM
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THE SHELF / 8 books to read if you’re fascinated by the louvre heist

30 October 2025, 13:30 PM
These stories prove one thing: art theft never goes out of fashion.
30 October 2025, 13:30 PM
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The Sound of Magic: a compelling story of magic and madness

It's a story of growth and following our passions despite all hardships.
18 May 2022, 12:45 PM
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For fans of ‘Heartstopper’, an Alice Oseman reading guide

I wanted to share my personal reading order of Alice’s work and a glance into what you can expect from each.
18 May 2022, 12:31 PM
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How BTS’ next album will prove their reputation as global superstars

On May 4th, 2022, Big Hit Music revealed that South Korean sensation, BTS, will be coming back with a much-awaited new album titled “Proof” on June 10th, 2022, just three days before their ninth debut anniversary.
13 May 2022, 11:06 AM
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5 ways to celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, on World Book Day

Celebrate the literary genius who inspires literature and media to this day.
23 April 2022, 07:24 AM
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How Studio Ghibli uses fantasy to deal with trauma

Studio Ghibli, the trail-blazing Goliath of the Japanese animation industry, has a house style that’s hard to miss.
30 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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13 books written by women, about women, for Women's History Month

Each book in this list features strong, fearless, bold, multi-faceted, creative, inspiring, vulnerable, witty, and most importantly, real women from all walks of life.
9 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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Exploring generational trauma and familial expectations in Disney’s Encanto

At its core, Encanto is a story of a family trying to support each other.
2 February 2022, 18:00 PM
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The metaphors for capitalism and hustle culture in Spirited Away

It is still eerily relevant to our contemporary hustle work culture.
12 January 2022, 18:00 PM
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Is book blogging in Bangladesh a privilege?

You walk into a room and come across stacks and stacks of books neatly arranged on shelves lining the walls, a couple of pristine white bedsheets, an intricate marble backdrop, and the smell of half a dozen candles blending together as your eyes are drawn to the centre of attention: glimmering, gold-foiled book covers. This is the commonly seen, romanticised setup for a book blogger’s photoshoot. Unfortunately, the real, behind-the-scenes process of blogging in Bangladesh can be quite different. 
24 October 2021, 13:36 PM
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How to start monetising your hobbies

Whoever said the phrase “Make your hobby your job, and you won’t work a day in your life” clearly didn’t think through the whole process of actually starting your own business and monetising your hobby.
16 September 2021, 18:00 PM
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How Kiki’s Delivery Service Relates to Every Young Creative

The perfect allegory for young creatives trying to make it on their own.
17 July 2021, 15:28 PM
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BTS’s Permission to Dance: An anthem for a brighter future

BTS’s new hit single, “Permission to Dance”, depicts an idealised future, with a Covid-free world.  The upbeat song with its bright colours and pop beat makes us almost reminiscent for a time that hasn’t come yet; a future where we can take off our masks, feel the fresh air and dance to our hearts’ content with our loved ones. The bright, funky beat is enough to make you want to get up and start dancing along.
11 July 2021, 09:01 AM
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Why Do We Still Swoon Over Mr. Darcy?

Fitzwilliam Darcy. You know who we are talking about.
9 July 2021, 14:01 PM
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Does Netflix’s ‘Shadow and Bone’ strike a chord?

For any popular book to screen adaptation with an already existing fanbase, there is always a risk of either enraging or disappointing fans of the original source material or confusing new viewers. Netflix’s new fantasy series, Shadow and Bone, takes that risk and takes it a step further by having Leigh Burdugo, the author of the bestselling “Grisha” trilogy and “Six of Crows” duology, upon which the show is based, as an executive producer. Burdugo, along with show developer Eric Heisserer, took this already enriched fantasy world filled with magic and mayhem and brought it to life for the audience brilliantly.
3 May 2021, 11:34 AM
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How BTS inspires millions to donate to charity

What started as a group of seven boys from South Korea with big dreams but only a handful of fans has amassed today into the global phenomenon known as Bangtan Sonyeondan (BTS) with millions of admirers from all over the world. BTS’s fanbase, known as ARMY (short for Adorable Representative MC for Youth), are often misjudged for being immature and toxic due to the lack of proper media representation.
18 February 2021, 04:39 AM
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How BTS is changing the world, one song at a time

In 2013, a group of seven boys, all from different backgrounds, who left behind their friends and family to follow their dream of becoming K-pop artistes, were about to debut.
31 December 2020, 18:00 PM
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Why are Korean dramas so beloved in Bangladesh?

Korean dramas, popularly known as K-dramas, are taking the world by storm, and audiences here in Bangladesh are not immune to the allure. For years, aside from home-grown tele-fictions and movies, most Bangladeshis have adored American TV shows and Indian serials as their source of entertainment.
13 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Fun ways to learn a language - All from the comforts of your home

“Language courses are so expensive and complicated,” said the guy from the 1940s.
3 April 2019, 18:00 PM
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Altered Carbon

Altered Carbon made a huge debut this year and had people asking for a second season days after the first one's release. It takes place in the future, where the rich can practically live forever by transferring their “souls” to other bodies, once the old one ages. However, the not-so-rich people are bound to mortality. These new rules of existence are fascinating, and so is the emotional fallout of the presence of eternal life. As with so many of the vampires
27 May 2018, 18:00 PM
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Stranger Things

With the news of the confirmation of Season 3 of this series being at the top right now, the excitement over Stranger Things is bigger than ever. Stranger Things is an American science fiction-horror Netflix
6 May 2018, 18:00 PM

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