Book Review: Nonfiction / ‘Shohoj Kothai Orthoniti’ A localised flavour of economics
8 November 2023
Flipping the pages of a textbook often makes me feel like I’m trapped in the US. We studied economics from an American lens, using American textbooks,
8 November 2023
Is MBA necessary after BBA?
3 August 2023
It's the age old question, with quite a nuanced answer.
3 August 2023
Creative Nonfiction / An odd memory in Dhaka city
5 May 2023
The only thing I like about this city is the thought of leaving it. And I was leaving it finally, after one and a half months, my longest stretch of stay in the last three years. Juggling my luggage with one hand and my phone with the other to get Google Maps directions while I balance myself on the rickshaw racing through bumpy Dhaka roads–it is a metaphor that sums up my life in this city.
5 May 2023
How cooking for myself changed my life
27 April 2023
Cooking seemed much easier than I thought until the perils of solo cooking revealed itself.
27 April 2023
The joy of designing your own dresses
20 April 2023
From the dreamy desire to wear the sky to the energetic expedition of making it a reality – it’s a fun little project.
20 April 2023
What it takes to get into IBA, DU
28 March 2023
"Based on my own experience and that of the people around me, here are some factors that can impact your odds of getting in."
28 March 2023
The ghosts called lost friends
9 March 2023
When we remember these lost friends, memory comes in layers.
9 March 2023
1901 feels a lot like 2020 in Orhan Pamuk’s latest novel
15 February 2023
How Mingherians responded to the infectious plague in 1901 isn’t altogether different from our response to the Covid-19. They too hid their patients in fear of stigma and isolation.
15 February 2023
I am the older sibling but I don’t feel like it
My younger sister refuses to acknowledge that I am indeed the older one.
22 January 2023
Journaling in times of turbulence
“Do you sometimes think that the world is unfair?” This is a question I know I will never get a satisfactory answer to. In fact, I would get no answer at all because I always pose this question to something that never answers, only absorbs – my diary.
9 January 2023
Journaling in times of turbulence
Journals are my way of preserving time and retrieving sand-like memories.
15 December 2022
The struggles of finding sportswear for women
Of all the countless obstacles between a woman and sports, one is her clothes.
8 December 2022
Finding myself in Orhan Pamuk books
It is also etched in the corners of multiple pages of the notebook I am writing this draft in. It is on my passport, also on my pajamas. It is the word the world knows me by—my name. Specifically, my last name, Nuri.
2 December 2022
The strange exclusivity of Dhaka University Central Library
It’s not allowed for the students to physically browse bookshelves in the Dhaka University Library.
3 November 2022
To the muse
Put up my notebook on a shelf, And laid in its sheaves a crimson rose.
20 October 2022
How students outside Dhaka miss out on opportunities
As much as we rant about how unlivable Dhaka city may be, most of us would blink in disbelief at the thought of having to move out. We are tied to this city — by obligations and attachments alike.
13 October 2022
I am a 1000 taka note and I feel unwanted
Unlike most of you, I don’t have the luxury of determining my self-worth.
11 September 2022
Do you look at the moon?
The unpredictability of the moon brings us closer to ourselves.
2 September 2022
Bangladeshi stand-up comedians can do a lot better
The local stand-up scene has often disappointed, but it can do better.
31 August 2022
The grief of losing a skill
When I find myself sliding into the endless pit called writer’s block, I turn to prolific writers.
7 July 2022
Too much self-help doesn’t work. Here’s why
There is no end to the pursuit of self-help.
19 May 2022
Making a case for the quiet kid in class
Itroverts too can socialise, but within certain limits.
11 May 2022
Christy Lefteri's 'Songbirds': The invisible life of migrant domestic workers
“Absence is the highest form of presence.” This Joycean quote could not be truer for Nisha.
13 April 2022
From the minarets, all their dark secrets revealed
Certain identities can strip people of their right to identify as humans. These people find their existence undesired, their rights, freedom, choices unguarded.
5 January 2022
Generic business competition desperately tries to surprise everyone
Bumble Bee Business Club, the university club in which members wear suits in the blistering summer and pretend to run an actual organisation, has announced the date for their flagship event RantWitz 2.0.
19 November 2021
Elif Shafak's 'Black Milk': Can a writer be a mother too?
Black Milk is an autobiographical documentation of Shafak's hesitation, anxiety, perplexity, and self-discovery as she is about to enter the phase of motherhood.
10 November 2021