This Ramadan, spare a thought for Muslims who find themselves on the edge of the night. Take a moment to think of Uyghurs who

Her home is two boat rides away from central Narsingdi—first, a boat drops you off on the outermost banks of the char, and then after crossing half a mile across the sandy islet, a smaller dinghy takes you down a canal that feeds into the body of char.

When Nasim Hossain, a senior manager at an international trading company, first heard the news from his wife Tanuja Islam that they

As of 2017, roughly 16.2 million people newly displaced around the world—an average of 44,400 people forced out of their homes

“I’ve heard that the fire of hell is supposed to be 70 times hotter than fire on Earth. But if anything comes even close to that, it will be

Several hundred people, mostly children, gathered at a paddy field in Bankina village of Kalihati upazila of Tangail district. They were

Recently WASA’s Managing Director (MD) claimed that the supply water is 100 percent drinkable, which of course caused a controversy

This is in reference to a write-up titled “The Long March of a Protestor’ published in Star Weekend magazine last week. Many social

Prior to Ramadan, a common scenario is the price hike of essentials in the city’s kitchen markets. According to local newspapers and

I saw a tweet soon after I finished watching Game of Thrones’ series finale—it said that those who still haven’t watched the show have

For all intents and purposes, the world ended 600 kilometres ago.

When you think of pyramids, which is the first place you think of? I bet it would be the pyramids of Giza in Egypt. Actually, I won’t hold

They are cleaners, people say. But I think they are sweepers, because they not only sweep away waste but the dust of civilisation. They

This narrative is not about how adults think of the way (street) children live their lives. This, too, is also not about policy prescription—

While Dhaka residents continue their ongoing protest against the poor-quality water that is piped into our homes by WASA, at least it

“Is there a river called Jinjirum that’s a trans-boundary river? Are you sure about its name? Is it the name of the locality or the river? I haven’t even heard about it,” says a high-ranking official of the northern zone of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), when we asked him about different issues faced by this river and the communities dependent on it.

“Don’t you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?”

Bodyspace Mindscape-Artist Talk

No self-respecting tourist will come away from Rio without having visited Christ the Redeemer, the statue that is emblematic of Rio.

A couple of weeks ago, a guy I will refer to as Guy (for his safety) made the unholy blunder of giving a Ha-Ha react to a comment that did not meet the approval of his wife.