Bishakha Devnath

Soon after the academic year began in January, Masuma Marjan tried to make a routine squeezing in all the 13 subjects she must complete before her JSC exams. But the eighth grader quickly realised she doesn't even have the whole year for her preparation -- her exams are scheduled for November. So she has settled for studying the main subjects first, each carrying 100 marks, and then thumb through the “less-significant” subjects in whatever time she will have left.

What was an impromptu celebration of Pahela Falgun in 1991 tied a group of students from Dhaka University's Faculty of Fine Arts forever, with affection and a memory that transformed into a bigger event.

Ishaan pulls out three books on Bangladesh and Global Studies, as he explains how he has been preparing for his final exams in class-VI. Two of them are actually guidebooks which he says are must-read study materials for excelling in the subject.

She has severed all ties with her husband and lived separately for more than four years now. But legally her marriage is not over yet.

Just the other day a truck laden with iron rods was lumbering ahead of us, as we were heading home in the middle of the night after work. The entire journey was freaking me out. I held my 15-month-old son tight against my chest.

Many of the government officials working on food safety are corrupt, observed Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan, general secretary of the Consumers Association of Bangladesh.