Retrospective / Before Sophia Loren became a global icon, she was a girl shaped by post-war Italy
20 September 2026
At 92, her journey from Sofia Scicolone of Pozzuoli to Oscar-winning screen legend remains a story of survival, reinvention and endurance
20 September 2026
Blast from the past / Controlling the Corleones: An offer you can't refuse
18 September 2026
In 2006, a video game offered something the film never could
18 September 2026
Retrospective / MF Husain: The barefoot modernist who painted a civilisation in motion
17 September 2026
Painter, filmmaker and cultural wanderer, he turned a lifetime of movement and contradiction into an unmistakable artistic idiom
17 September 2026
Retrospective / Oliver Stone at 80: The filmmaker who never stopped arguing with America
16 September 2026
From Platoon and JFK to Wall Street and Nixon, Stone built a career out of challenging America’s wars, myths and certainties
16 September 2026
Reflection / Can fractured families be repaired? Galpo Holeo Satti thinks so
30 August 2026
Tapan Sinha’s 1966 classic finds its answer in kindness, patience and the genius of Rabi Ghosh
30 August 2026
Reflection / The world changed. Nazrul did not become obsolete
28 August 2026
Fifty years after Nazrul’s death, the world is technologically unrecognisable but morally haunted by many of the same old divisions
28 August 2026
Nayak at 60: Satyajit Ray understood constantly being watched before the age of self-curation
13 August 2026
The 1966 classic turns Uttam Kumar’s star image into a quietly devastating study of fame and selfhood
13 August 2026
Pop Culture / Samurai Jack and the future we became
12 August 2026
Twenty-five years after its debut on Cartoon Network, its dystopian vision of technology, alienation and lost memory feels startlingly contemporary
12 August 2026
Eid in the shadow of war
Stripped of abundance, the festival endures across conflict zones as a quiet act of resistance
22 March 2026
The iconic duo that anchors Eid celebrations across Bangladesh
A plate of polao-roast: Eid’s signature pairing
21 March 2026
A crescent moon for the broken
Why Eid does not arrive the same for everyone, and how a classic ghazal gives voice to that quiet divide
21 March 2026
When Chuck Norris died, the myth kept standing
Action icon and martial arts maestro dies at 86, leaving behind a legacy
20 March 2026
The song that became Chand Raat’s anthem
Nearly a century on, ‘Ramzaner oi rozar sheshe’ continues to define the sound, spirit, and soul of Eid’s eve in Bangladesh
20 March 2026
Iran strikes Qatar's Ras Laffan LNG hub: What this means for Bangladesh, India, Pakistan
South Asia’s heavy LNG dependence turns geopolitical conflict into domestic crisis
19 March 2026
Sandokan: The tiger of Malaysia, half a century on
A pirate saga that fused romance, rebellion and spectacle
19 March 2026
‘Where are you?’ The afterlife of a song that outlived borders
A drifting ghazal resurfaces on digital tides, revealing how a shared past still sings in one voice across divided geographies
18 March 2026
Odyssey of the golden Greek
From refugee to a colossus of commerce, Aristotle Onassis forged an empire and a legend steeped in glamour, ambition and tragedy
17 March 2026
When the big boss buys the shoes, you wear them even if they don’t fit
The curious ritual of presidentially gifted shoes reveals how performance, loyalty and hierarchy operate inside Trump’s Washington
17 March 2026
A Ramzan favourite: Why the humble haleem demands patience in the age of fast food
Bangladeshi chef’s appearance on MasterChef: The Professionals brings global attention to the slow-cooked dish that nourishes Ramzan evenings across South Asia
16 March 2026
Jürgen Habermas, the mason of reason
The German philosopher reshaped how we understand public debate, democracy and the power of rational conversation
15 March 2026
A song of ice and rain: Spring’s last surprise over Dhaka
A sudden burst of hail turned a humid evening into a fleeting spectacle
13 March 2026
How a 21-min qawwali discovered during a video game hunt changed a schoolboy’s musical world
A chance encounter with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s ‘Allah Hoo’ opened the door to the transcendent world
13 March 2026
Mango blossoms: Perfume of the season
In Bangladesh, the fleeting bloom of mango trees transforms the air into a tapestry of fragrance, memory and the promise of a cherished fruit
13 March 2026
Gianni Agnelli: Fiat, flair and the fine art of living
The life of Gianni Agnelli fused industry, aristocracy and style into a singular performance of power, glamour and modern Italian identity
12 March 2026
Gorbachev’s glasnost gamble: The day the Soviet century tilted
A single succession rewrote the geopolitical script of the late 20th century
11 March 2026
Price of passage
War turns maritime insurance into quiet fulcrum of global trade
10 March 2026
From Pakistani living rooms to South Asia’s reels feed: The meme-ification of Rooh Afza
Once a cult sitcom character, she is now Instagram and TikTok royalty across Pakistan, India and Bangladesh
9 March 2026
A crude lesson: How war on Iran is reviving fears of another global oil meltdown
Prolonged disruptions could shave about 0.6% points off global economic growth
9 March 2026