We've all seen Bangladeshi TV advertisements. It might be in brief bursts during Ittyadi, in longer bursts during cricket matches, or in never-ending streams during your favourite Eid-er natok.

Muhammad Bin Abdullah Al-Fihri Al-Quaraouiyine (pronounced “karaween”) was born in the city of Al-Qayrawan in today's Tunisia. He migrated to Fez in today's Morocco. Fez was then under the Idrisid dynasty.

When the time came for me to choose subjects for my O Levels, I was completely confused. Not only was I clueless about the direction I want to steer my life towards, I was also disinterested in a lot of the subjects offered.

Time is a symbolic exchange with Math Rock and upon listening to a song or two from this rich genre; you are bound to be swept away by the same tranquility I have experienced.

There is a toilet in Gawsia that smells like flowers. It is clean, bright and flooded with sunlight. And it is solely for women.

Those who do music, are a bit messy in life – is an accepted perspective of our society. The picture always shows that musicians can never be good at any other profession.

The lamp's frail light cut the darkness in yellow rays. And the cramped house with broken furniture spoke of poverty.

Inaugural ceremony of “4th Intensive Training Program on Applied Research Methodology” took place at Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT) on November 19, 2017.

The gaming community is known to be a devoted bunch. Almost every popular game has an active group of people who create a community around it. To the ones truly invested in the game, the original experience is not enough.

AVENGED SEVENFOLD

Fanfiction is a… difficult thing, to say the least, in terms of all the things you could feel while reading it. We've all been there (well, I HOPE we've all been there or this is woefully inaccurate)

MUNCHIES

We've all been there, haven't we? Surrounded by books, scribbled papers, stationeries spread all across the table and constantly scratching our heads trying to make our battered, worn out brains work.

“Adult content in movies: graphic violence, profanity, overtly sexual dialogue, [nudity is on the menu too, but explicit nakedness is usually censored before movies can make it to big screens in Bangladesh].

You wake up one day to the reality that you have to walk 5 kilometres to and from your educational institution every day. Your day starts before the sun rises; you have to help out at the store or the field for hours, you have to do your schoolwork, and live under the constant uncertainty that your journey towards learning can come to a halt because of financial constraints.

A dumb camel once said, “Moo.”

Ittyadi shares the same position as khichuri on a rainy day in a Bangladeshi household. Since the show has been going on for over 25 years now, it has seen its viewership swell. My parents introduced me to the show when I was a child.

Two of my favourite bands - Arctic Monkeys (AM) and Twenty One Pilots (TØP) – started out as nothing more than a group of teenagers messing around.

When television commercials showed long silky hair, the young me would drool and dream. I always wanted to have luscious locks, and achieved them at one point.

Set in the North of London in the beginning, Zadie Smith's fifth novel, “Swing Time”, tells us the story of two childhood friends whose paths diverge as they grow up, and the challenges of growing up fuel the diversion.