The largest festivity of this season is just around the corner, and Anjan’s is all set with a delightful line to suit the season. Colourful and gorgeous clothes are the rage and Anjan’s latest collection is here to set the score with clothes in various patterns and designs.

It’s a chilly weekend afternoon and snuggled up on a cosy rocking chair by the bedroom window, you are about to finish reading this fabulous novel. After having basked quite a while in the feel-good vibes of the novel’s climactic finish, you decide to rise from your chair for a brisk walk around the house.

Beguiling lost hearts and charming old souls, orchids have blessed the earth for the longest time among all other species of flowers. A true championship of orchids, Dhaka’s Annual Orchid Show, held at Gulshan 2, therefore, aims to unite orchid enthusiasts from all parts of the city to indulge in nothing but the floral stunners of nature.

My mornings are pathetic. Like all the ladies out there, juggling work and family; with crying toddlers or school going kids, with angry teenagers, or nerdy university-going grown-ups, and not to forget a difficult child-like adult heading for work — our mornings are worse than any migraine headache.

Colonel Harland Sanders is a name directly associated with fried chicken. His secret recipe of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) still remains a secret. Col. Sander’s 129th birthday was this year, on 9 September.

If you are thinking this is yet another piece on our fantasy regarding the quintessential Bengali belle and their mesmerising eyes, then pause. This is exactly that…and perhaps, a little more.

The three worlds trembled – a deity was created with celestial powers. With all her blessings, she transformed into this beautiful form, and marched against the demons, on her mount. Unsurpassed in beauty; she is eternal. She is the protector of the realm, and a clear manifestation of energy. She is all women, in their truest form. She is Durga, the life-like expression of divine energy.

Durga Puja is synonymous to celebration, none of which are complete without an elaborate table spread, with dishes ranging from the simplest ‘bhortas’ to the most delicious variety of fish.

Cinque Terre means ‘five villages,’ because this band of five picturesque fishing villages are bound by a single thread, as if to tell a collective tale, along the Mediterranean coast of Liguria, Italy.

A fading yellow line separates the growing throng of people behind me from entry into the People’s Republic of China. In front, a

Bangladesh Nutrition & Dietetic Forum commemorated their first anniversary on 5 September, 2019 at Spectra Convention Centre, Gulshan.

Noeke Kusuma, General Manager at Four Points By Sheraton Dhaka, was recently presented with the prestigious Bangladesh’s Best General Managers (Hospitality) award. This is endorsed by CMO Asia & World Federation of Hospitality Professionals.

For all the busy bees of the fast-paced city, Radisson Blu Dhaka Water Garden is offering an escapade in the form of its new ‘Autumn Cityscape’ weekend room package.

Foodies can enjoy the best of the heritage of Nawabi cuisine with Kurry Accent’s newest food festival “THE AWADHI FOOD FESTIVAL.” The food festival, which started on 13 September, 2019, will run for the next seven days.

ATHENA International, a globally recognised organisation based in the US, has honoured nearly 7,000 exemplary leaders since its inception in 1982 worldwide. In their latest list of recipients,

Kabab lovers of the capital have a new destination to head to. Authentic Kabab Express boasts an array of 32 kababs of chicken, beef and

“We felt that Dhaka needed a place that offered quality snacks. More often than not, we find ourselves consuming entire meals in the name of a light evening snack. So, we wanted to introduce a genuine snack item,” stated Daniel Rahman, one of the co-owners.

“Paach khew jora hoise, teen khew barse” — the master weaver utters the ‘buli’, an oral tradition that has been handed down from one master to his apprentice for centuries. And this oral instruction is all that there is in creating the mesmerising intricacies that we see in a Jamdani sari.

Admit it, being stuck in a cubicle was not exactly what you imagined when you were writing ‘My Aim in Life’ as a second grader.

The appeal of masquerades is universal. And now, even the Dhaka socialites have jumped on the bandwagon.