Naziba Basher

“I want to keep working,” says 16-year-old Akash. “I want to be an engineer!” says little Sagor, just 12. 11-year-old Sajeeb, the youngest, wants to be in the garment's sector.

The blessed month of Ramadan is fast approaching, and while some of us are very excited, some others are little tensed about how to get through it.

“Psychosocial counselling is very appropriate, especially in Bangladesh, where there are a lot of conditionings, and therefore a lot of conflicts.

It is very common for one to misconstrue what the ideal 'office life' is. We all quite instinctively think white shirts, blue ties,

Syed Abid Hussain Sami is one of the fastest rising names in the industry now. The multi-talented protégé has stolen hearts

Nurjahan Begum- the name can be considered synonymous to words like empowerment, valour, courage, kindness and more. The first female editor of the region, who was the editor of the first magazine for women in the region, passed away at the age of 91, on Monday morning.

International Day of Families just passed by on the 15th of May, and since many of us (guilty as charged) didn't know about

“My father had subscribed to Begum Magazine when I was a little girl. He used to love the fact that the editor and I had the same name,”

The fight we have been fighting, us women, has been a long and tedious one.

Munmun Ahmed is a name familiar to the whole country. Her intricate footwork and enchanting twirls of Kathak can have the whole nation mesmerised.

Child labour is not only horrifyingly prevalent in our society, it is growing, and that is something we should be very, very afraid of.

Kenya is an unquestionably beautiful African country. There is a reason as to why Kenya is the unofficial 'African Safari Central'.

He started off small. But those who do big things in their lives usually do. That's the great thing about 'star' people- they start

Taking a gargantuan amount of responsibilities, keeping a respectable stature, being calm, kind and collected, but have strong

It is merely a dream for many of us, to be able to wear our national emblem proudly on our chests in a foreign land, to sing our national anthem wearing our hearts on our sleeves, and represent our nation with our talents and skills.

When the news of Leela Samson coming to perform in Dhaka, Bangladesh, hit the newspaper stands, in the middle of April, every passionate dancer in the country had butterflies in their stomachs. It was after all, THE Leela Samson. I, just like those other dancers, was on my toes to come face to face with this living legend of a Bharatanatyam dancer.

A first glance at Fahad Al Alam will remind one of a line from The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, because like Estha,

The 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize attracted nearly 4000 entries from 47 countries. Twenty-six “fresh and

Chirag Roy – a conservation biologist, a comrade, a lover of nature, a friend to wildlife; a husband, a son, a brother to many...

Everyday we face problems. Commuting, house help, mishaps in the education system, corruption- these are everyday issues that