During holidays, my family and I often become tourists, traveling the roads less traveled by, in Bangladesh. Last year during the Eid holidays, we started our journey from Chittagong and headed to our destination, Sylhet.

Dhaka University is considered as the hub of intelligentsia in Bangladesh. However, after its establishment in 1921 Dhaka University, due to its limited resources and capacity comparing to Calcutta University, could not contribute much to the independence movement of Bengal.

If you are a regular reader of Bengali literature, you must be familiar with the term 'Brahma Samaj'. But if not, don't mix up the term 'Brahma' and 'Brahman'—they are very different concepts.

The best thing about any February is the frenzy of activities that comes along with it -- the Ekushey Boi Mela, Pahela Phalgun celebrations and of course commemorating the heroes on International Mother Language day.

“I’m nervous,” were the first words that director and writer of the film Gohin Balu Chor, Badrul Anam Saud, said during the press launch of the cinema. While he said that, all I could think was, “YOU'RE nervous?? What about me???”

On 24th of February, 2017, the English and Humanities Department of BRAC University arranged the launching ceremony of Dr. Tamina Mahmud Chowdhury's book titled Indigenous Identity in South Asia: Making Claims in the Colonial Chittagong Hill Tracts at its GDLN Centre.

Recently physicists have discovered a whole new form of matter, It is four dimensional matter called time crystal. Normal crystals, like diamonds, are an atomic lattice that repeats in space.

There is a long established idea that oxygen is the prerequisite element for the creation of life on earth.

Book: Biday Ma (Goodbye Mother), Author: Iqbal Khandaker, Genre: Original Author

Are you deciding on whether to tie the knot with a particular somebody? Here are a few basic (and some startling) factors to consider discussing with your probable future better-half before believing they are “The One”:

Here in Dhaka, unfortunately, the name- 'National Botanical Garden'- at Mirpur, evokes more negativity than anything else.

Red Shift Coffee Lounge, Bays Galleria, Gulshan Avenue

Have you ever heard of Lilabati Nag? The first female student of University of Dhaka back in 1923, Lila attained 'first class first' in her Master’s from her department.

New technology has accelerated books' migration to digital arena. In 2015, about 64 percent of adults read digitally, up 5.9 percent compared with 2014, while 58.4 percent read paper books, only 0.4 percent increase, an annual survey conducted by Chinese Academy of Press and Publication shows.

27th January, 1945. Victorious Soviet troops entered into a deserted and destroyed the Polish town Auschwitz.

Often we stumble, and we look around for what can pick us back up. We look for family, for friends, we look for rewards, awards and achievements.

Rocket steamers are not only a means of water transport but these century old vessels have become an indispensable part of the history of Bangladesh.

During my childhood years, whenever my family would plan on visiting my great-great-grandfather's zamindar house (also famously known as Boro Basha locally) situated just beside the Eid'gah Maath in Jinjira, Keraniganj, deeply rooted memories come rushing from within.

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

"The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself."