Following the recent hot spell, the country is passing Sraban, the second month of the Bangladesh monsoon. Today is the month's 10th day. Normally, in mid-Sraban Bangladesh experiences bouts of heavy shower, and almost day- and night-long drizzle. In the recent years, the 2-month season of monsoon

Perhaps the earliest scientific invention in the area of music to enter Bangladesh was phonograph, commonly known as gramophone. It was also known locally as Koler Gaan. Musical instruments like flute, dotara, sarengi etc had been in use for long in the region --- but not the device of music coming

The breaking of news of the Gulshan fire on the electronic media on the late evening of last Sunday had something awfully panicky. The fire broke out in the late evening and it was completelydoused at around 11 PM. In the frenzied melee 2 died as they jumped off two different floors of the 14-story

It's sad to note how the solemn mood of the 21st February (Omor Ekushey) eventually gave in to many frivolities in the last four-and-half decades. This year was no exception. The alarming part of the developments is newer inanities continue to sully the atmosphere every year. Things have deteriorat

The feeding of a large number of hungry people at a street corner last week as shown in a FE photograph was filled with the features of lofty benevolence and humanity. The young volunteers feeding assorted people belonged to an organisation called 'Bhalo Kajer Hotel' (Hotel dedicated to good deed).

Stressful life of the middle and lower-middle classes in the country's cities at times becomes unbearable. They look for outlets to release their stifling boredom. There are few to emerge as a way out to relieve them of their suffocation. Dhaka, as capital of Bangladesh, can boast of several outlet

There is no dearth of festivities surrounding this year's month-long Bangla Academy Ekushey Book Fair. It's nothing unusual, as it defines the normal ambience of the annual festival. But this year marked a shift as the publishers had already said before the fair that they wouldn't bring out many ne

The way the country's rivers are being polluted without respite, it might take barely fifty years before a number of them go out of sight --- at least in part. Speaking without mincing words, they would be choked to death in cold blood. A sampling of this dying process could be detected in the Buri