Daisy Edgar-Jones to lead new adaptation of ‘Sense and Sensibility’
26 June 2026
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TV & Film
‘Like a morning after a nuclear attack’
24 March 2023
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Weekend Read
Book review: Nonfiction / Syed Waliullah: husband, artist, thinker, writer
17 August 2022
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Books & Literature
Fear of sexual harassment triggering child marriage: survey
20 February 2022
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Bangladesh
For the Love of Tea
7 January 2022
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Star Literature
Court Corner / SC forms committee against sexual harassment
4 November 2021
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SEXUAL HARASSMENT
UK-listed cybersecurity firm Avast in merger talks with NortonLifeLock
15 July 2021
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Organisation News
“The space for in-depth critical journalism is shrinking"
28 November 2019
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Star Weekend
“Predisposed journalism can never grow and sustain”
28 November 2019
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Star Weekend
Putting the “news” in our news feeds
28 November 2019
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Star Weekend
How to look after a book
Too often, we perceive books as invincible, inanimate objects. But their history is as ancient as it is ambiguous—what is a book
26 September 2019
Jhenaidah: A death a day
According to the latest data from the World Health Organisation (WHO), Bangladesh witnesses six incidents of suicide for every
26 September 2019
A Vices’ circle
I don’t know whether to call it luck that we get to witness the development of a brand-new English phrase right under our noses. The
26 September 2019
Rana The Dhakaiya Gully Boy
While waiting in front of the central library of the University of Dhaka, a small crowd drew my attention. I was trying to see what was
19 September 2019
In the land of pandas and hand-rolled noodles
A fading yellow line separates the growing throng of people behind me from entry into the People’s Republic of China. In front, a
19 September 2019
The One About Friends
Seven thirty pm on Star World was when it began for me. I was young—too young to be watching Monica and Chandler kiss, to get
19 September 2019
TIFF 2019: Made in Bangladesh, a melodramatic social-realism film relevant to its times
Made in Bangladesh left an impression at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) where it was selected as part of the
19 September 2019
Cinematic in scope, characters pulse with life: Dust Under Her Feet
Bangladeshi writing in English has seen an encouraging surge over the last couple of years. In the arena of South Asian literature,
19 September 2019
Was that you Akela?
In Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, a series of short fables published in 1894, Akela and Raksha were the wolf parents of Mowgli,
19 September 2019
How democracy backslides
We are living in a time which can no longer be described as a democratic era. Almost 61 percent of the global population now live
19 September 2019
Bangla natok and chill
There are over 40 privately run TV channels in the country, of which four are news channels, one music channel, and one is for
19 September 2019
Machines whirring at migratory bird sanctuary
Around halfway through the Jahangirnagar University campus one would notice age-old rusting signboards with caution warnings like
19 September 2019
REMEMBERING SATHKHIRA, MY ENDLESS SUMMER TORTURE
I had never gotten around to writing about Sathkhira, at least not as a travel destination. Maybe because travelling to this saline land
12 September 2019
Aedes-infested hospitals treat dengue patients
A tide of anxiety swept over the medical community when a survey by the disease control division of the Directorate General of Health
12 September 2019
Who’s listening?
In December 2015, tea workers from Chandpur and Begum Khan Tea Estates in Habiganj protested the threatened seizure of land they
12 September 2019
What men think about #MeToo
The #MeToo movement that burst into the spotlight in Hollywood in 2017 dismantled many perpetrators from their positions of power
12 September 2019
Caught Between Life and Traffic
The 17-year-old girl had overdosed herself with multiple drugs. She was first taken to Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College in
12 September 2019
Primary education in Bangladesh: All exams and no learning
Most of the time, however, one of her parents takes her to school and they carry her schoolbag for her. On the way to school,
12 September 2019
The issue of Kashmir hits close to home
Ahmad Shafi* sensed the unrest in Kashmir before it happened. An MBBS student in Bangladesh, he was in class at Dhaka’s Green Life
12 September 2019
About Town
Organiser: National Crafts Council of Bangladesh and Bengal Foundation
5 September 2019