World Coffee Day / Tea may have built the nation, but coffee booked the meeting
1 October 2026
Coffee may be the newer habit, but it has slipped neatly into an old Bengali tradition: sitting down and talking about everything and nothing
1 October 2026
Perspective / The Rumi we quote is not the Rumi who wrote
30 September 2026
Behind the Instagram aphorisms was a theologian for whom love meant surrender and the undoing of the self
30 September 2026
Retrospective / Before Sophia Loren became a global icon, she was a girl shaped by post-war Italy
20 September 2026
At 92, her journey from Sofia Scicolone of Pozzuoli to Oscar-winning screen legend remains a story of survival, reinvention and endurance
20 September 2026
Blast from the past / Controlling the Corleones: An offer you can't refuse
18 September 2026
In 2006, a video game offered something the film never could
18 September 2026
Retrospective / MF Husain: The barefoot modernist who painted a civilisation in motion
17 September 2026
Painter, filmmaker and cultural wanderer, he turned a lifetime of movement and contradiction into an unmistakable artistic idiom
17 September 2026
Retrospective / Oliver Stone at 80: The filmmaker who never stopped arguing with America
16 September 2026
From Platoon and JFK to Wall Street and Nixon, Stone built a career out of challenging America’s wars, myths and certainties
16 September 2026
Reflection / Can fractured families be repaired? Galpo Holeo Satti thinks so
30 August 2026
Tapan Sinha’s 1966 classic finds its answer in kindness, patience and the genius of Rabi Ghosh
30 August 2026
Reflection / The world changed. Nazrul did not become obsolete
28 August 2026
Fifty years after Nazrul’s death, the world is technologically unrecognisable but morally haunted by many of the same old divisions
28 August 2026
50 years on it still echoes, "You talkin’ to me?"
Half a century later, Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” remains a quiet autopsy of urban souls learning to live without being seen
23 March 2026
Rebecca: A ghost story without a ghost
Hitchcock’s adaptation turns a dead woman into a living force
22 March 2026
Eid in the shadow of war
Stripped of abundance, the festival endures across conflict zones as a quiet act of resistance
22 March 2026
The iconic duo that anchors Eid celebrations across Bangladesh
A plate of polao-roast: Eid’s signature pairing
21 March 2026
A crescent moon for the broken
Why Eid does not arrive the same for everyone, and how a classic ghazal gives voice to that quiet divide
21 March 2026
When Chuck Norris died, the myth kept standing
Action icon and martial arts maestro dies at 86, leaving behind a legacy
20 March 2026
The song that became Chand Raat’s anthem
Nearly a century on, ‘Ramzaner oi rozar sheshe’ continues to define the sound, spirit, and soul of Eid’s eve in Bangladesh
20 March 2026
Iran strikes Qatar's Ras Laffan LNG hub: What this means for Bangladesh, India, Pakistan
South Asia’s heavy LNG dependence turns geopolitical conflict into domestic crisis
19 March 2026
Sandokan: The tiger of Malaysia, half a century on
A pirate saga that fused romance, rebellion and spectacle
19 March 2026
‘Where are you?’ The afterlife of a song that outlived borders
A drifting ghazal resurfaces on digital tides, revealing how a shared past still sings in one voice across divided geographies
18 March 2026
Odyssey of the golden Greek
From refugee to a colossus of commerce, Aristotle Onassis forged an empire and a legend steeped in glamour, ambition and tragedy
17 March 2026
When the big boss buys the shoes, you wear them even if they don’t fit
The curious ritual of presidentially gifted shoes reveals how performance, loyalty and hierarchy operate inside Trump’s Washington
17 March 2026
A Ramzan favourite: Why the humble haleem demands patience in the age of fast food
Bangladeshi chef’s appearance on MasterChef: The Professionals brings global attention to the slow-cooked dish that nourishes Ramzan evenings across South Asia
16 March 2026
Jürgen Habermas, the mason of reason
The German philosopher reshaped how we understand public debate, democracy and the power of rational conversation
15 March 2026
A song of ice and rain: Spring’s last surprise over Dhaka
A sudden burst of hail turned a humid evening into a fleeting spectacle
13 March 2026
How a 21-min qawwali discovered during a video game hunt changed a schoolboy’s musical world
A chance encounter with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s ‘Allah Hoo’ opened the door to the transcendent world
13 March 2026
Mango blossoms: Perfume of the season
In Bangladesh, the fleeting bloom of mango trees transforms the air into a tapestry of fragrance, memory and the promise of a cherished fruit
13 March 2026
Gianni Agnelli: Fiat, flair and the fine art of living
The life of Gianni Agnelli fused industry, aristocracy and style into a singular performance of power, glamour and modern Italian identity
12 March 2026
Gorbachev’s glasnost gamble: The day the Soviet century tilted
A single succession rewrote the geopolitical script of the late 20th century
11 March 2026
Price of passage
War turns maritime insurance into quiet fulcrum of global trade
10 March 2026