How to help children fall in love with reading
8 August 2026
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Wisdom
Why Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey disappoints in its portrayal of women
7 August 2026
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Wisdom
10,000 steps a day: Health myth or medical fact?
6 August 2026
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Wisdom
Why Dhaka University should rethink its rules for female students
4 August 2026
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Wisdom
Inherited Memories / One railwayman's line-box, three eras of history
2 August 2026
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Wisdom
The strange grief of seeing our parents age
25 July 2026
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Wisdom
After the PhD: The loneliness nobody talks about
22 July 2026
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Wisdom
The Palestine lesson from Spain's World Cup victory
21 July 2026
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Wisdom
The memories hidden inside my grandmother's tureen
14 July 2026
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Wisdom
What Bangladesh lost with the Baibari Ghar
5 July 2026
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One city, different nights
Inequality is not hidden; it is right in front of us, every night.
27 February 2026
Crossing the river in Dhaka: The last hundred meters
Later visits took me away from Dhaka, into small villages in the southern deltas. Again, into a world I did not know existed.
26 February 2026
In the shadow of distance: Bangladesh, memory, and the diasporic imagination
Among expatriates in Sydney—where the Bangladeshi community has grown steadily over the past two decades, driven largely by international students—there persists a lament about corruption’s corrosive reach.
25 February 2026
A first vote, a quiet hope
Casting my first vote felt like pride. It also carried a trace of guilt, the awareness that every choice means rejecting another.
15 February 2026
The politics of “self-care” in the times of despair
Much of the popular discourse on self-care in recent years has been reduced to commodified routines.
4 February 2026
Other side of George Orwell
After his firsthand experience of poverty, Orwell turned his attention to the English working class.
25 January 2026
Between Dhaka and the UK: Living the in-between
Returning forced me to confront an uncomfortable truth: belonging is not always singular.
13 January 2026
An ode to winter, sadness and survival
Just as nature does not apologise for winter, our life does not need to justify its slower seasons either.
5 January 2026
Red-green flag and the comfort of forgetting independence
There’s a grief folded into our victory that no celebration can undo.
24 December 2025
D for Dhaka, D for Death
Luck— you need a lot of it to stay alive in this city. And also a sense of dark humour.
23 December 2025
Lives of divorced single mothers: What choice costs in a judgmental society
Society will only see the fact that a woman is a divorcee; nobody will try to look beyond that “label”.
18 December 2025
We are not lazy, we are overwhelmed
We are not incapable; we are choice-fatigued.
10 December 2025
Doing it stupid: A philosophy of starting afresh
If you are not willing to look like a foolish beginner, you will never be a graceful master.
7 December 2025
What we learn when we truly see our parents
Parents are not mythical beings, they are ordinary people with ordinary lives and extra ordinary love for us.
28 November 2025
Earthquakes, overthinking, and the Hamlet within us
Hamlet’s tragedy lies not in his flaws, but in his waiting.
25 November 2025
We are not angry for justice — we are angry to feel better
It is an already conditioned culture that prefers reactions over reflections, mere spectacle over humility.
21 November 2025
The places we go when we want to disappear
Escapism is one of the most ordinary forms of survival we’ve invented.
19 November 2025
Why we fail to understand ourselves
We forget that we are not math problems on a blackboard, ready to be figured out.
18 November 2025
The science behind our ‘eureka’ moments, and how to nurture them
In giving our ideas room to roam and meet in unforeseen ways, we invite the world to answer us.
16 November 2025
Still human, somehow, but is that enough?
Are you literally unaware of this illusion consistently holding you captive?
11 November 2025