AI is here. Can Bangladesh’s education system adapt?
17 September 2026
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Wisdom
Why are we in such a hurry to live?
15 September 2026
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Wisdom
Why I chose teaching over a corporate career
14 September 2026
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Wisdom
The moral hierarchy of blood
13 September 2026
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Wisdom
The curious case of Bangladeshi ‘tension’
12 September 2026
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Wisdom
What can a teacher give that AI cannot?
10 September 2026
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Wisdom
What phuchka and jhalmuri can teach us about the science of taste
9 September 2026
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Wisdom
Remembering Yayoi Kusama: My encounters with the master of infinity
8 September 2026
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Wisdom
Dress and morality : The politics of what women wear
7 September 2026
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Wisdom
Is being single at 35 a failure?
6 September 2026
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Wisdom
A first vote, a quiet hope
Casting my first vote felt like pride. It also carried a trace of guilt, the awareness that every choice means rejecting another.
15 February 2026
The politics of “self-care” in the times of despair
Much of the popular discourse on self-care in recent years has been reduced to commodified routines.
4 February 2026
Other side of George Orwell
After his firsthand experience of poverty, Orwell turned his attention to the English working class.
25 January 2026
Between Dhaka and the UK: Living the in-between
Returning forced me to confront an uncomfortable truth: belonging is not always singular.
13 January 2026
An ode to winter, sadness and survival
Just as nature does not apologise for winter, our life does not need to justify its slower seasons either.
5 January 2026
Red-green flag and the comfort of forgetting independence
There’s a grief folded into our victory that no celebration can undo.
24 December 2025
D for Dhaka, D for Death
Luck— you need a lot of it to stay alive in this city. And also a sense of dark humour.
23 December 2025
Lives of divorced single mothers: What choice costs in a judgmental society
Society will only see the fact that a woman is a divorcee; nobody will try to look beyond that “label”.
18 December 2025
We are not lazy, we are overwhelmed
We are not incapable; we are choice-fatigued.
10 December 2025
Doing it stupid: A philosophy of starting afresh
If you are not willing to look like a foolish beginner, you will never be a graceful master.
7 December 2025
What we learn when we truly see our parents
Parents are not mythical beings, they are ordinary people with ordinary lives and extra ordinary love for us.
28 November 2025
Earthquakes, overthinking, and the Hamlet within us
Hamlet’s tragedy lies not in his flaws, but in his waiting.
25 November 2025
We are not angry for justice — we are angry to feel better
It is an already conditioned culture that prefers reactions over reflections, mere spectacle over humility.
21 November 2025
The places we go when we want to disappear
Escapism is one of the most ordinary forms of survival we’ve invented.
19 November 2025
Why we fail to understand ourselves
We forget that we are not math problems on a blackboard, ready to be figured out.
18 November 2025
The science behind our ‘eureka’ moments, and how to nurture them
In giving our ideas room to roam and meet in unforeseen ways, we invite the world to answer us.
16 November 2025
Still human, somehow, but is that enough?
Are you literally unaware of this illusion consistently holding you captive?
11 November 2025
You aren't required to love yourself to accept yourself
You don’t owe the world pretty, but you owe yourself kindness
9 November 2025
We are losing empathy, and it’s not our fault
Empathy used to be something we carried naturally, almost like a part of our identity.
6 November 2025
Living experimentally in a goal-obsessed world
You don't need to find your grand purpose before you begin. You just need to design your next small experiment.
3 November 2025