It is no happy coincidence that my return to full time employment and my second foray into writing began at the same time.

Being a single working women and a regular commuter in this city, I often have to deal with sarcastic debates on why there should be reserved seats for us.

To this day he is considered a living legend in the music community—yet he doesn’t sing or play any instrument. Abdur Rafique – known as the first true roadie, the first guitar technician, a musician’s doctor, the real life MacGyver – is the oldest music technician of Bangladesh.

In late November of last year, I was approached by an earnest young man from the Dhaka University Theatre and Performance Studies

Turkey Bangla Cultural Fest 2016

Bangladeshi modern sculptor, Novera Ahmed, was a woman far ahead of her times.

The spell is over, the hour is up. And I can no longer remember.

The stigma surrounding depression

One London night, a few weeks after Brexit, something happened as I was walking to a bus stop that had never happened in the 9...

Here in Dhaka last year, at a conference on the future of print media business, DD Purkayastha, CEO of ABP Group, the parent company of Anandabazar Patrika, said of the paper's digital strategy: “We are giving what our readers want.”

When Abdullah Shibli Sadiq got a call from an unknown phone number informing him that he would receive a reward of Tk 62,500 from the government, he was astounded.

For 24-year-old Anika Ibnat, finding a safe space to call home, like many single women in Dhaka city, has been a struggle.

The government is devising ways to offload state-owned companies' shares according to a new Daily Star report (March 17, 2017).

The Home Minister had reportedly asserted in early March this year that, “militancy problem remains under control”.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

On March 24, 2017, Star Weekend published an article titled Memories of Blood and Terror that sent shivers down my spine.

It's amazing how the likes of Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal and Mushfiqur Rahim have consistently performed for Bangladesh over the years.

Bangladesh's theatre scenario has been the source of my personal frustration ever since I started working as an arts journalist.

On the 7th day, Dr Barinstein came into the room viciously rubbing her hands with sanitizer mostly splashing off her fingers.

Donald Trump made the headlines once again, as he has every day since before election, by now banning all electronic devices from...