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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What Bangladesh lost with the Baibari Ghar
5 July 2026
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You aren't required to love yourself to accept yourself
You don’t owe the world pretty, but you owe yourself kindness
9 November 2025
We are losing empathy, and it’s not our fault
Empathy used to be something we carried naturally, almost like a part of our identity.
6 November 2025
Living experimentally in a goal-obsessed world
You don't need to find your grand purpose before you begin. You just need to design your next small experiment.
3 November 2025
Do we really need to own what we love?
The freedom is to see beauty without claiming it and to love without needing to possess it.
2 November 2025
Why we dream big but struggle with small acts
Perhaps saving the Earth really does start with helping Mom do the dishes. Because dishes are real.
20 October 2025
What Bangladesh can learn from C. N. Yang’s legacy
As Bangladesh aspires to transform itself into a knowledge-based economy, Yang's story carries both inspiration and instruction
19 October 2025
What are we really running from?
The moment a meeting lulls, a conversation pauses, or a task feels a bit too long, my phone is in my hand. It lights up. And I’m gone.
12 October 2025
In praise of slowness: Rethinking life in a fast-moving Bangladesh
Slow living isn’t just a trend – it’s a necessity in the fight against burnout, anxiety, and stress related to climate change
10 October 2025
The art of staying calm in an angry world
Both our genetic makeup and past experiences impact our brain's chemistry, which in turn affects how we respond to different situations
7 October 2025
The art of slow seeing: Meditations from rickshaw rides
In truth, we are all passengers, seated on different rickshaws of life.
5 October 2025
Are we hardwired for unhappiness?
The sad reality about humans is that we are not wired for happiness. Natural selection prioritises survival and reproduction, which does not necessarily involve being happier. People are now less happy than they ever have been. This is not just an abstract philosophical issue; it is becoming a national concern.
23 June 2025