Reflection / Why a film from 1976 still feels like a South Asian middle-class story in 2026
31 May 2026, 18:00 PM
Beneath the romance and poetry of 'Kabhi Kabhie' lies a social truth that still endures
31 May 2026, 18:00 PM
Pop culture / 007 First Light: A Bond for the age of becoming
30 May 2026, 18:00 PM
Video game recasts the world’s most enduring male fantasy as a young man shaped by uncertainty, instruction and growth
30 May 2026, 18:00 PM
Reflection / The cutlet and the ‘journey by train’ essay
29 May 2026, 12:41 PM
How a snack says more about travel, memory and the subcontinent than a classroom composition ever could
29 May 2026, 12:41 PM
Eid reflection / The real gore is hunger
28 May 2026, 19:00 PM
What once felt like fear of slaughter became, in adulthood, a confrontation with poverty
28 May 2026, 19:00 PM
Reflection / A ritual of red
28 May 2026, 13:08 PM
Rituals are sanctioned, seasonal, even sacred, yet leave residues that can’t be laundered
28 May 2026, 13:08 PM
Reflections / Goatfather: A caprine comedy
26 May 2026, 21:07 PM
Remember that story of an overpriced goat and its mysterious buyer?
26 May 2026, 21:07 PM
For those who left but never departed: Nazrul’s ‘Ami chirotore dure chole jabo’
24 May 2026, 20:30 PM
Through Nazrul’s words and Firoza Begum’s voice, farewell becomes something more unsettling: a promise never to disappear
24 May 2026, 20:30 PM
‘Cha khaben?’: The question that slows the world down
21 May 2026, 19:42 PM
On World Tea Day today, a reflection on how the simple offer continues to turn tea into a ritual of pause, warmth and human connection
21 May 2026, 19:42 PM
Price of passage
War turns maritime insurance into quiet fulcrum of global trade
10 March 2026, 19:42 PM
From Pakistani living rooms to South Asia’s reels feed: The meme-ification of Rooh Afza
Once a cult sitcom character, she is now Instagram and TikTok royalty across Pakistan, India and Bangladesh
9 March 2026, 23:56 PM
A crude lesson: How war on Iran is reviving fears of another global oil meltdown
Prolonged disruptions could shave about 0.6% points off global economic growth
9 March 2026, 21:09 PM
Rooh Afza: The making of a South Asian icon
How a ruby red summer tonic from 1906 became the most beloved iftar drink across Bangladesh, India and Pakistan
8 March 2026, 17:45 PM
Shadow of the Shah
Iran’s exiled Pahlavi dynasty again enters political debate
7 March 2026, 21:04 PM
‘Just a question of time’: Trump revives Cuba confrontation after Iran attack
US and Cuba have been entangled in antagonism since the mid-20th century
6 March 2026, 18:30 PM
The democracy of iftar’s aroma
In cities, towns and villages alike, the scents of frying, citrus and spice stitch together the shared anticipation of iftar
5 March 2026, 18:55 PM
Middle East conflict now brings hot waters to distant shores
Sends shockwaves to Indian Ocean shipping lanes
5 March 2026, 13:13 PM
An ancient superpower defying today’s hegemon
Ancient statecraft, revolutionary ideology and strategic geography converge as Iran challenges contemporary global dominance on its own terms
4 March 2026, 18:30 PM
When Nosferatu came out of the shadows
The movie premiered on this day over 100 years ago and introduced audiences to soundless horror
4 March 2026, 15:58 PM
Has the country become a horror story?
The killing of a seven-year-old in Sitakunda is not an isolated incident
3 March 2026, 20:23 PM
The Empire and the performance of moral high ground
How the US wages war, removes leaders, and redraws nations -- all while insisting on its ethical supremacy
2 March 2026, 21:29 PM
First rain over a fasting Dhaka
First shower this year offers a weary city a moment of mercy
2 March 2026, 20:05 PM
How Persia became Iran
Echoes of an empire in a time of fire
1 March 2026, 21:01 PM
Why are Pakistan and Afghanistan at war now?
Airstrikes, retaliation and the TTP factor expose the collapse of a once-calculated relationship between Islamabad and the Taliban
27 February 2026, 19:15 PM
John Steinbeck and the art of bearing witness
At the heart of Steinbeck's literary oeuvre lies a profound empathy for the disenfranchised
27 February 2026, 18:00 PM
In Dhaka, spring and pages bloom together
Amid mango blossoms and mild breezes, Ekushey Boi Mela reaffirms the permanence of paper in an age of fleeting screens
26 February 2026, 18:30 PM
Khrushchev’s Secret Speech: The 4 hours that shattered Stalin’s empire
The consequences were not merely political but metaphysical
25 February 2026, 19:08 PM
Cultural afterglow of Breakfast at Tiffany's
Lily Collins to portray Hepburn in a film about the making of 'Breakfast at Tiffany’s', reopening a cultural conversation about Holly Golightly
24 February 2026, 20:47 PM
A timeline of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Global consequences of a continental war
24 February 2026, 19:10 PM