Celebrate Friendship Day by discovering how relationships evolve from effortless childhood play in South Asia to ambition in university and time constraints in adulthood, proving true bonds endure through conscious effort and trust.

Buckets of water I pour on my head; my vision gets blurry./ "The blurrier, the merrier", my mother said.

Too poor to affect grain prices in global markets, the chronically hungry are economically invisible.

This guide seeks to offer a direction to navigate the harsh reality of letting go of your childhood dreams.

On moonlit nights when the perfume of the roses thickened the air, I was in a trance, an ecstasy of body and mind. The beauty of the night has held an allure for me my whole life.

As I regrettably approach adulthood, I can’t help but think that my relationship with winter has changed tenfold.

How reasonable is it to expect children to understand the intricacies of a time-bound commitment they are making with themselves?

There's more to these movies than just magic.

As the clock strikes 7:00am, Samira is woken up by her mother. Fighting the sleepiness that still overwhelms her, the fourth grader freshens herself up and puts on her school uniform.

Mass urbanisation takes its toll on Dhaka by erasing the scopes for the young ones to have a healthy childhood. The city is no longer child friendly as it fails to provide the amenities and environmental factors needed for the physical and psychological development of children.

Only for a few hours on Friday mornings, Mizan and his brother Raihan were given time off work. They spent it playing cricket on the roof of Selim Super Market at Kaliganjbazar in Keraniganj.

In February every year, when his friends bought books from the national book fair and talked excitedly about reading those, he wished he could have done the same. Abul Kalam Azad had lost his vision from a severe attack of typhoid in childhood. But the thought that visually impaired people like him were deprived of all opportunities to enjoy books made him restless.

Rebecca had lost her father while an infant and witnessed how her mother had struggled to give her a beautiful childhood despite her step-father's misgivings about bringing her up.