National award-winning artist and puppeteer Mustafa Monwar has been undergoing treatment in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a private hospital in Dhaka where he was rushed after his “oxygen level and blood pressure dropped”. His wife Merry Monowar told Glitz on Thursday the artist, wh
James Burrows, widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in American sitcom history, has died at the age of 85, his family said in a statement on Friday, Variety reports. Burrows passed away peacefully at home on Jun 19, surrounded by loved ones, after a brief illness. Starting with
A Dhaka court has rejected bail for television actor Niamot Ullah Bhuian, popularly known as Zaher Alvi, sending him to jail over his wife's suspected suicide. Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kamal Uddin passed the order on Thursday, said state counsel Harun or Rashid. Alvi surrendered that d
Here is something women from every corner of this planet will admit at 2 a.m., though rarely in polite company, that we have been studying fictional men. We rewind scenes, pause on moments, and construct elaborate internal arguments for why Lloyd Dobler is a more evolved human being than most men w
You are scrolling. It is late. The fan hums overhead, steady like a metronome. Somewhere in the algorithm's vast and indifferent memory, a decision has already been made: tonight, you need a voice that does not rush. A few seconds of a Bengali song appear. A baritone that does not announce itself,
In Thomas Hardy's fiction, the Victorian world does not appear as a stable moral universe but as a structure under quiet strain. This order insists on clarity while producing lives defined by ambiguity, accident, and pain. The dominant ideology of the Victorian period rested on the belief that mo
Mejbaur Rahman Sumon made his name with Hawa. With Roid, his second feature, he goes further back, not just in setting but in time itself. The film takes place in a rural Bangladesh stripped of all modern markers: no mobile phones, no dates, no historical cues. The story centres on Sadhu, a quiet
The remains of popular film star Salman Shah will be exhumed from his grave, followed by the preparation of an inquest report and an autopsy, as part of efforts to determine the actual cause of his death. Confirming the development to BSS, investigating officer and CID Inspector Ziaul Morshed said
There is a particular kind of memory that does not announce itself. It arrives sideways — through the smell of rain on hot concrete, or the specific quality of afternoon light in a room where a cassette player used to sit. For an entire generation of Bangladeshis who grew up in Dhaka's apartm
Bagerhat Theater and the recitation organisation Shobdokolpodrum jointly organised an evening of poetry and drama at the Studio Theatre auditorium of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Friday (June 5) at 6:40 PM. The event captivated poetry and theatre enthusiasts with a diverse line-up. It feat
There exists a university, the largest in the country, nestled in the heart of Dhaka's Chankharpul. Every year, bright-eyed, hardworking young men and women arrive with dreams tucked under their arms, ready to change their lives. But once they step through those gates, a very different reality unfo
Political power traditionally relied on roaring lions, soaring eagles, or rising suns to command authority over the public and capture their imagination. Yet, in a bizarre twist, an insect has shaken the digital foundations of the region's most formidable political party and its long-established sy
There is a curious kind of immortality that belongs only to the greatest poets; Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mathematician-poet, achieved precisely this kind of immortality. His Rubaiyat travelled far beyond Persia and found a second home in the fertile imagination of Bengali and Urdu
