Let's Eat: A Guide to Food in Bangladesh

June, 1971, three months after our declaration of independence from Pakistan, thousands of Bangladeshi (then East Pakistani) youth had been receiving training in India to fight against the Pakistani occupation army.

“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.”

It has been 44 years since we achieved our hard won independence and the meaning of this word “independence,” has changed for us over the past decades.

On March 27, 1971; The US Consulate of East Pakistan sent a telegram under the subject heading 'Selective Genocide' to the United States Department of State regarding the mass genocide which happened on March 25.

“Independence is being able to live as one big happy nation.”

8ft by 8ft- the size of an average bathroom in most of our homes—that is how much space each family living inside the Geneva Camps (Bihari Camps) all over the country is allotted.

Scientists have resolved pieces of a nearly 200-year-old evolutionary puzzle surrounding the group of mammals that Charles Darwin called the "strangest animals ever discovered."

With the initiative of CRI (Center for Research and Information), two talented cartoonists, Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy and ABM Salahuddin Shuvo, started 'Mujib' – the first ever graphic novel series in Bangladesh.

After railing against it and passionately commiserating with those who decried it, I finally watched Clint Eastwood's “American Sniper” in its entirety.

The streets of Dhaka are so different to me, compared to what you generally see.

Popular for fusion music, experimenting with sounds and remakes, Armeen Musa is finally back with yet another set of easy-to-listen melodies in 'Simultaneously.' Bringing together elements from different cultures, the album portrays diversity, unity and affection.

“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”

Another Step to Glory

I am a Candy Crush freak! That is, I fight to get to the next level right after I wake up in the morning, on my way to work, during lunch breaks and also right before bed.

Due to inadequate access and insufficient water supply, the “floating” or street people of Dhaka have to spend more money on average on water, compared to the people living in slums and apartments, researchers say.

Remove this rusted metal cap and the world's deepest hole tunnels miles into the Earth.

Each year torrential showers of the monsoon season pour millions of gallons of fresh water over Bangladesh. In cities like Dhaka, where drinking water is a costly commodity, this abundant blessing should not go to waste.

Renowned intellectual figure Ahmed Sofa was a Bangladeshi poet, novelist, writer, critic, and translator.

When one walks into the Bihari Camp in Mohammadpur, locally referred to as the “Market Camp,” it is as though one has left the city and entered a different world- the world of the condemned.