Book / Plaantik’s ode to the football culture of Bangladesh
23 November 2022
To celebrate football culture of Bangladesh, Plaantik has launched its sports anthology.
23 November 2022
THE SUN THAT SHONE THE BRIGHTEST
23 January 2019
As the scrawny 9-year-old told me all about how he played in the hay in his beloved village, he clutched on to my finger like he had known me forever. Brishti, his little sister, tepidly scampered closely behind us as the three of us marched on towards the hospital.
23 January 2019
Build your own dream team
3 October 2018
Football is arguably the biggest sport in the world. It can unite people who are on the same bandwagon with a sense of shared identity, or it can destroy friendships based on apparent club rivalry that in all honesty does not make much sense from thousands of miles away yet it certainly spices things up.
3 October 2018
APP REVIEW / The ultimate mobile office suite
26 September 2018
While Google have perfected a lot of things, an all-in-one office suite is certainly not on that list. Almost all Android users have gone through the ordeal of trying to use Google's office apps as their daily driver and ended up downloading Microsoft's apps instead.
26 September 2018
An Escape
5 September 2018
Navid shivered. Drops of cold sweat trickled down his forehead. The marble bench felt colder than death. He agitatedly tapped his fingers on his knees. “How long have I been sitting here?” he wondered. He glanced at the bruise on his wrist where his watch used to be.
5 September 2018
Admission Tests - What you need to know
25 July 2018
Admission test — the one ominous exam standing between you and your dream university, a test more gruesome than the Twelve Labours of Hercules. Admission tests can be highly challenging not only due to the sudden leap in difficulty, but also since your result directly reflects on the undergraduate programme you choose and the path your life takes thereafter.
25 July 2018
Life lessons you get as a finance major
27 June 2018
Real philosophies you learn as a finance major.
27 June 2018
Take the Plaantik
20 June 2018
Football is the author of Cinderella stories; whether it is Iceland reaching the quarter finals in the Euros and qualifying for the World Cup or Gabriel Jesus going from painting streets only four years ago to spearheading the Brazilian national team's attack on the biggest stage, football has its own unique way of amusing people with tales of joy. We have our very own version of such a success story today, the story of “Plaantik”.
20 June 2018
Play away the puzzles
If you are someone who loves wasting countless hours figuring out solutions to challenging puzzles, “Brain It On!” should be on your to-play list. Orbital Nine Games brings a super minimalistic game that combines the laws of basic physics with a really simple game design yet manages to provide with countless hours of fun.
9 May 2018
Is MBA a Must after BBA?
Should you do an MBA or get into a job straight away?
25 April 2018
A student's guide to scripting an audiovisual
In recent years, AVs have transcended beyond just the commercial sphere. Students are more and more involved in making AVs for academic purposes. Applying for higher studies abroad often requires video essays. Furthermore, the rise of student-level branding competitions ushers in creative submissions which more often than not require making ads, team videos or campaign videos.
14 March 2018
Are you curious?
If you are someone who is curious to know about all the random things going on around you, Curiosity is just the app for you. Do you want to know which photos won the science photography competition in 2018? Or perhaps, you want to read up on how origami is revolutionising the world of electronics. Curiosity has you covered.
28 February 2018
Honest ads of fast food places
If there is one thing that we have learnt from the booming restaurant business, it is that probably there is nothing we love more than food. And in order to cater to our insatiable hunger, new food places open up every day. What if these restaurants made honest ads about themselves?
28 February 2018
Should you really “read” audiobooks?
I am not proud of it, but like most literary critics, I had never equated audiobooks to reading an actual book. I had always been sceptic about the notion of listening to a book and rolled my eyes every time someone claimed to have “read” a book via a voice narration.
28 February 2018
The accounts of a terrible badminton player
I will just come out and say it: I am a monkey when it comes to playing badminton, and not even the good kind that goes to space or
21 February 2018
The wholesomeness we needed in our lives
In a time when most popular shows are either dark or stranger than most things, comes a show that can easily brighten your day. The
7 February 2018
Learn languages
Are you enthusiastic about learning new languages? Are you, perhaps, a film connoisseur who likes watching foreign lingual movies? Or
7 February 2018
Relaxing sounds for every mood
Imagine yourself lying on the beach, listening to the gentle lapping of the waves. Or perhaps, you light a campfire on a cold winter night in the forest listening to the owls hooting over the crackle of burning
17 January 2018
Stages of an eating challenge
The only thing we, as a nation, love more than food is, well, free food. Therefore, every new restaurant that comes along with their assortment of generic fast food decides to utilise this collective affinity towards free food to their advantage.
27 December 2017
New hub for book lovers
Are you bored of hanging out at overpriced restaurants and dingy cafes? Are you tired of judgmental gazes of the shopkeepers everytime you linger around in a bookstore? I surely am. As a bookworm, I have always dreamt of a place with shelves after shelves where I could just grab a book, a steaming cup of coffee and forget about the rest of the world.
22 November 2017
The art of taking class notes
Taking hand-written notes is a lost art in the current digital era. Thankfully, owing to our “digital” country's reluctance in converting our classroom into a digital ecosystem, the art is not yet obsolete in this part of the world.
8 November 2017
Should I really study this?
I sat for admission tests back in 2014, and things were no easier for me than they have been for you in 2017. Everyone told me to
2 November 2017
An abundance of local business competitions
Much has already been said about the importance of student competitions. To reiterate, these competitions are pivotal in aiding students to develop themselves.
11 October 2017
Back to lazy superhero shows
The Devil of Hell's Kitchen, the unyielding girl, the man with unbreakable skin and the sworn protector of K'un-Lun — an ensemble of heroes you did not know or care about until MCU's bold ventures into the TV screen.
27 September 2017
Video Essay channels on YouTube
YouTube constantly sees through the rise and fall of trends over time. Some trends leave a longer lasting impression, while others fizz out quickly.
27 September 2017
Ludo STAR
If there is one board game that every Bangladeshi kid grows up with, it has to be the legendary “Ludo”. It is super cheap, easily available in even the smallest grocery stores and immense fun for all ages.
6 September 2017
Artsy milkshake refilled for the season
In the melancholic humdrums of a hectic city, we are like rusty old machines gruellingly running from one job to the next.
16 August 2017
Teaching through Tech
Smallfoot, a youth-driven initiative for educating underprivileged children, inaugurated its new social project titled "Smallfoot-Teach through Tech" on August 12, 2017. "Teach through Tech" is a technological education programme that aims to provide children from slums with training on necessary skills based on their passion.
16 August 2017