Be honest with the writer here, do you also hear the jingle playing in your ears, 'Cholo na Bashundharay Jai!' with a little girl walking up the staircases with her parents to a beautiful home from the greenest of green grass; every time you hear the name Bashundhara? Yes, the writer thought so, to

The lines are from a poster advertising the first form of cinema or motion pictures in the world, written playfully in Bangla - an invitation to watch a bioscope show. A bioscope - a square or hexagon with little round holes inside which the magic happens. Let a story be the wind that sails this s

Atpata aur Chatpata! (spicy and punchy) - the two terms one would generally describe Indian food in the most brief form. This being said a curiosity to know the restaurants which serve the best Indian food at the heart of Dhaka among foodies is obvious.  So, here is a list of the best Indian

In the middle of a dry land of yellow sand and red forts, a loud wailing filled the heavy desert air. Another grand Rajasthani fort was weeping in more grandeur than the celebration of joy. The Thakur of the haveli (the palace) has died.  This deep scream of wailing i

Just a few days back, TikToker Allison Delperdang’s TikTok questioned if people still wore the same pajamas more than one night in a row or if it is uncommon now. The comment section of the original TikTok is crazy, and the video got enormous clicks.  But apart from that, the question a

Life in the metro was somewhat 'normal' until the COVID-19 pandemic happened. Besides the loss of lives, a lot of people were rendered jobless. In the huge classification of the lost jobs and closed income sources, a significant part was the loss of tuition by private student tutors. Has the situat

Does anyone remember taking out that all-time favourite book from the corner of the bookcase and some dried rose petals murmuring on their way down as they kissed the floor? The rose was indeed priceless, given by someone important, and of course, with love. Love is both calming and 'restless-ing'

Imagine scrolling through your regular newsfeed, and a basket of freshly plucked jasmines catches your eye. A deeper second look at the beautiful flowers and a realisation hit the brain that it was, in fact, not a basket of flowers but a hyper-realistic cake. Such is the progress in today's bakery