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Maisha Islam Monamee

The author graduated from Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka and is a contributor at The Daily Star. Find her @monameereads on Instagram.

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2 October 2026
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2 October 2026
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When we become the people in Manna Dey’s ‘Coffee House’

1 October 2026
Last week, I was sitting in a café in Delhi with a group of friends I have known since childhood when I suddenly understood an old song differently. We had spent years growing into people our younger selves could barely have imagined. We now live in different cities, have different careers, different relationships with money and work, and very different ideas of what constitutes a good life. Some of us have become very serious adults. Some are still figuring it out. And yet, around that table, the old dynamics returned almost immediately.
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Next Step / A first-timer’s guide to filing your income tax return

29 September 2026
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29 September 2026
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Why we keep coming back to ‘Friends’

27 September 2026
“Friends” has spent three decades becoming one of television’s great comfort shows, the kind of series that asks almost nothing from you and gives you a familiar little world in return.
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19 years later, ‘The Big Bang Theory’ still feels like home

26 September 2026
Nineteen years ago, on September 24, 2007, TBBT premiered on CBS. Created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, the sitcom introduced viewers to a group of extraordinarily intelligent, socially complicated and deeply ridiculous people living in Pasadena, California.
26 September 2026
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Next Step / How to make LinkedIn work for you before graduation

22 September 2026
In an age where employers look up candidates before interviews, recruiters actively search for talent online, and networking increasingly happens digitally, LinkedIn has become one of the most powerful career-building tools available.
22 September 2026
How pop culture changed the way we see teenage sadness

How pop culture changed the way we see teenage sadness

19 September 2026
The troubled teenager arrives in pop culture with a familiar visual vocabulary: rain-streaked windows, messy bedrooms, slammed doors, lonely walks through school corridors and teenagers staring dramatically into the middle distance while an appropriately melancholic song plays in the background. Teenage suffering was usually big, beautiful and legible.
19 September 2026
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iPhone Duo v Galaxy Z Fold8: Can Apple challenge Samsung’s foldable lead?

18 September 2026
Apple has entered the foldable-phone market several years after Samsung established itself in the category. Its first attempt carries the familiar ingredients of a flagship iPhone: premium materials, custom silicon, tightly integrated software, and a price firmly at the top of the market.
18 September 2026
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Sabiha Mili’s dreams of working for human rights

Twenty-two-year old Sabiha Mili, a graduate from Jahangirnagar University, started her journey with Model United Nations (MUN) in 2014. She attended her first conference as a delegate in Ireland, representing an intelligence agency committee. Usually an
5 September 2019
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Team Bonna: Standing beside flood victims

Recent floods have had catastrophic effects on the lives of many people across the country, causing severe insufficiency of resources, along with the increase of water-borne diseases like dengue at an alarming rate. In order to tackle such problems,
29 August 2019
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Ahmed Yesvi Rafa: A dedicated researcher

19-year-old Ahmed Yesvi Rafa completed his HSC this year from Dhaka Residential Model College (DRMC). He will soon be starting his first semester at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, majoring in Biological Systems Engineering, with a 65 percent scholarship.
22 August 2019
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Nerd Community: A one-stop solution for students

Till date, Nerd Community has organised over 80 educational meet-ups and events, which helped students to gain knowledge about different fields, including science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
8 August 2019
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An exquisite display of hand-stitched portraits by Elora Parvin

An exhibition was held recently by Elora Parvin, who presented hand-stitched portraits of famous personalities throughout global history, at Drik gallery in Dhanmondi. Though she is a housewife, Elora likes to spend her free time stitching and creating artwork.
15 July 2019
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Mir Rasel: The Young Digital Marketing Expert

In 2013, Mir Rasel established the website rajshahiexpress.com, the first internet media of the division where he had compiled all information related to Rajshahi in one portal. “With increasing access to the internet, people can visit our online newspaper for all headlines revolving around Rajshahi,” expresses Rasel.
4 July 2019
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Team OLEEK: The national champion of Student to Startup

Student to Startup, held at Sheikh Hasina National Youth Centre, Savar, aims to catapult the young generation of entrepreneurs to the
27 June 2019
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World Festival of Poetry celebrated at EMK Center

June 21 witnessed the celebration of World Festival of Poetry in 160 countries around the world. The theme for this year’s festival, ‘No War – Hug Peace’, is an attempt to speak against war and support communal harmony.
24 June 2019
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Rafat Nur’s projects to help the underprivileged community

Rafat Nur, a graduate of National University of Bangladesh, runs Chobi’r Haat, an organisation comprised of close to 28 young artists who sell their artworks and use the money to provide food and healthcare services to slum dwellers.
12 June 2019
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Potter Bibi: Promoting Bangladeshi culture and fashion

Potter Bibi is an online shopping site serving products that are made in Bangladesh. The name, Potter Bibi, refers to the Bangla idiom,
31 May 2019
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KOTHA: Addressing sexual violence at its core

Twenty-three year-old Umama Zillur, a graduate from Mount Holyoke College, founded KOTHA, a primary intervention programme that addresses the attitudes, behaviours, and conditions that support, condone and lead to sexual violence, in 2016. Developed under the Clinton Global Initiative
30 May 2019
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Jaifrin Ahmed’s journey to BAKED

Jaifrin Ahmed, a business graduate from North South University, won the Alokito Nari Shommanona this year for her entrepreneurial
22 May 2019
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Zaheed Sabur’s success at Google

Zaheed Sabur is the first Bangladeshi principal engineer at one of the world’s leading technology companies, Google.
15 May 2019
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CURE impresses at Harvard National Model United Nations 2019

Harvard University recently organised the 65thedition of Harvard National Model United Nations, one of the oldest and most prestigious conferences of Model United Nations globally.
11 May 2019
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Mohammad Aman Ullah talks about World Orphans Day

Worldwide Organization for Charity (WOC), established by Mohammad Aman Ullah, celebrated World Orphans Day on April 20, 2019, across 130 countries including Bangladesh, Germany, Ghana, Slovenia and others.
25 April 2019
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AI-powered digital Dhaka: A step towards safer roads

Gaze Technology, owned by a team of young Bangladeshi students has devised a project to manage the traffic of Dhaka and make the roads safer.
25 April 2019
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Proborton celebrates World Orphans Day

In a recent collaboration with Worldwide Organization for Charity (WOC), Proborton, an organ-isation aimed at helping and educating underprivileged children, celebrated World Orphans Day at its Mirpur campus with more than 30 students.
25 April 2019
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Resurgence wins Social Impact Prize at GSEA International Finals

Naziba Naila Wafa, co-founder and chief marketing officer of Resurgence is the first Bangladeshi to win an award under the category of ‘Social Impact’ at the ‘Global Student Entrepreneurship Awards 2019 in Macau.
23 April 2019
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National Leadership Conference 2019 held at Krishibid Institute

English Olympiad and Team Worldwide Organization for Charity (WOC) recently conducted their National Leadership Conference at Krishibid Institute.
22 April 2019
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Ashfaq Zaman’s journey to LEAD

Young entrepreneur Ashfaq Zaman is the founder of Leadership Excellence and Development (LEAD), an organisation that specialises
18 April 2019

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