FICTION / Nobody the Girl
3 January 2019
It was the hour of waking on Winter Solstice and yet a radiant sun was rising on the already bustling borough of Colony. From the first glimmer of sunlight on the shortest day of the year, the citizens of Colony would take the Choice, till the World were momentarily plunged under the cover of darkness. Once the sun rose on the new season, a new Commandant would be named.
3 January 2019
FILM / Invoking the “Mantoiyat”
15 November 2018
“This is a particularly timely film and in many ways, and perhaps self-contradicting ways, a comforting film.
15 November 2018
Entertainment / ALTERED CARBON
12 April 2018
Although it's been out for over two months, the visually-thrilling, ultra-pulp tech-noir Altered Carbon has enjoyed relatively little fanfare. Created by Shutter Island screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis, Altered Carbon is set in a depraved new world 400 years in the future. Human consciousness now exists on “stacks”, and if you're rich enough, it can be downloaded and
12 April 2018
Tribute / Priyabhashini's orchestrations of carbon
7 March 2018
That Ferdousi Priyabhashini's driftwood creations are more sentient than inanimate becomes apparent the second you enter Shilpangan, a contemporary art gallery tucked away in a cosy corner of Dhanmondi 13. Her current exhibition, Megher Shongi, is a tribute to the monsoon, her most loved of the six seasons, and the inspiration for her woodwork orchestrations. With boats and boatsmen, long-legged water-birds, and stranded figurines, her characters and forms look like they've emerged straight out of a tempest.
7 March 2018
event / Tickle your intellect this Lit Fest
16 November 2017
It's that time of the year again—to soak in the muted, winter sun on the dewy early-morning lawn, sipping shatkora and lotkon sherbets as you give up body and soul to rapturous lines of poetry, all eyes and ears for the literary luminaries and cultural icons who grace the grounds of Bangla Academy this weekend-and-a-half as Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF) returns for its third year.
16 November 2017
Musings / Rules of engagement
9 November 2017
A nine-to-five workday spent dangerously close with the opposite sex in a sequestered office cubicle makes it painstakingly difficult for things not to get steamy once in a while.
9 November 2017
Musing / Tall, handsome and deathly—the enduring allure of vampires
30 October 2017
Growing up, vampires were never quite the James Deans of the undead that they are today. Vampires that I would encounter were middle-aged, had an unwholesome pallor, the same coiffure as Alfalfa from The Little Rascals, and god-awful vaguely-European accents.
30 October 2017
exhibition / Phoenix of Longadu
26 October 2017
“After the landslide, it became all too clear where the aid was headed. Of course there would be an inclination to send relief to the Bengalis,” says Mrittika Kamal, Director of Terracotta Creatives and one of the curators of Phoenix of Longadu, a charity exhibition, held between October 16 and 19 at Drik Gallery, dedicated to raising funds for the affected families.
26 October 2017
Obsessive compulsive snacking disorder
We’ve probably all had fervid unhealthy love affairs with junk food. But now it's time to let your body know who the boss is.
1 January 2015
New Year's Eve survival guide
New Year party time. Learn how to survive to the next day.
25 December 2014
Down the back alleys of remembrance
Accompanied on stage by acclaimed writers Syed Manzoorul Islam, A Qayyum Khan and Kaiser Huq, the launching of Shahzaman Mozumder's new memorandum on 1971, “The Guerrilla”, by Daily Star Books took place in front of a brimming and absorbed crowd composed of literary enthusiasts and history buffs.
23 November 2014
In fits of laughter
When a man declares, “My mission in life is to make people laugh”, you can be sure you're in for an evening of hysterics. Naveed Mahbub launched his new book “Humorously Yours” on Friday at Hay Fest.
22 November 2014
The lipstick and the pomegranate
“If you read a man's narrative, you just know it's not written by a woman,” said literary critic Muneeza Shamsie in “The Women as a Writer” on the second day of Hay. The session, moderated by Tahmima Anam, also included Indian novelists Manju Kapur and Nilanjana Roy.
21 November 2014
It's that time of the year
Hay Festival is back in town for its fourth year in a row, featuring yet another line-up of some of the greatest minds the world of literature has to offer.
19 November 2014
Productivity unwired
5 apps that you need on your smartphone right now
21 August 2014
The real deal with high heels
High heels for the workplace: What's the right way to survive them?
14 August 2014
Caution: Women at work
We've all heard about the glass ceiling and the failed sexual harassment court cases. But what truly stands in the way between your miserable entry-level paycheck and that one gratifying step up the ladder?
14 August 2014
Eat you alive
Is your boss distant and intimidating? Is your work life one big fire drill? It's time you do something about it.
8 May 2014
16 questions before you launch [INFOGRAPHIC]
The whats, hows and whos of opening shop
24 April 2014
The buzz about bitcoins
Whether an impractical libertarian reverie or a house of cards just waiting to cave in, Bitcoins have moved on from the shady back-alleys of techie territory and are fast approaching the bourgeois border.
5 June 2013
Power of the press
There's an underground world called Lobbying, Media Management and PR, and as most underground things go, we don't really know a lot about it.
15 May 2013
It's curtains at the DMZ
If you haven't read about it in the papers, you've at least seen the memes. Yes, latest in the series of belligerent North Korean leaders, Kim Jong-Un, is threatening to wreak nuclear Armageddon on the world.
17 April 2013