Abida Rahman Chowdhury

A quick visit to the six no. Fisheries Ghat in the busy tourist town of Cox's Bazar and you will be greeted with the intense smell of the town's sludge flowing into the sea, and busy fishermen screaming their lungs out auctioning off their day’s catch of sea fish in all shapes and sizes.

Smells evoke emotionally charged memories. Like the smell of freshly picked green mangoes after the season's first Kalbaishakhi or the smell of clothes washed with Chaka Ball soap and laid out to dry on the wires running along the village front yard. However, Beautiful Bangladesh—our tagline for tourism—has its inimitable share of horrible smells that also manage to etch themselves into our memories.

From Halkhata to Balance Sheet, from Mela to Carnival

As the rickshaw, painted bright with a distorted Bengal tiger and even more distorted images of Dhallywood stars, breaks through the sea of other rickshaws, the kites appear almost suddenly through the narrow old Dhaka skyline.

"With their parallel lives, animals offer men a companionship different from any other human exchange. Different because it is a companionship offered to the loneliness of man as a species."

She is a friend and a foe. She is all encompassing and she can take away all. The mighty Sundarbans, the enchanted forest, the recipient of my modern-day love letters.

The story of saving the vultures of Bangladesh

The Proustian punch of eating food that stirs a nerve is something I have always been on a quest for.

With a view to creating awareness among people about the need for protecting environment, four visionary Nepalese cyclists are in Bangladesh now as part of their global tour.

We spent our two days in Habiganj, eating through the town, walking through the forests that house the last vultures, sitting under the shade of an old banyan tree and catching some old-time village gossip.

Finding the link among loss of tree cover, greater non-native or introduced trees and higher bird mortality.

I like to think that poet Jibanananda Das derived inspiration for his seminal poem Banalata Sen during his times in Barisal.

Many a traveller has braved the high seas, traversed the many aisles of rice fields, trekked the tall mountains and lived to write of their glorious adventures in this land of rivers - Bangladesh.

Remember playing with your clay dough as a child, molding it into different shapes and sizes? Do you want to revisit those childhood years or simply dream of sinking your hands in soft clay and shaping it, bringing it to life?

The Bay of Bengal, the largest bay in the world, veiled in mystery, home to sea gods and goddesses, and full of stories of many

The long and arduous year, that is 2016, is finally over and now we can look forward to all the cinematic treats 2017 has in store for us.

The July sun sparkled and reflected from the rows of tin-shed roofs that the almost hundred year old PK Sen building looked out upon. The little known, Prashanna Kumar Sen building was cracking at its seams; the pale yellow and green painted walls were peeling and gave the walls a snakeskin texture.

Although winter in Dhaka is yet to hit in full swing, there is a light nip in the air, the sun’s rays do not feel so harsh and brown-grey butterflies are flittering all around. From the staircase to the washrooms and bedrooms, these grey-brown butterflies have become common fixtures this winter and many have questioned their sudden increase.

he land of six-seasons, many rivers and golden fields is at the zenith of its beauty during the monsoon. Read on to find out some of the places you could visit around the country.

In the wake of the horrifying attack last night where gunmen held dozens of people hostage inside the cafe, and fired shots and hurled bombs at law enforcers, regulars at the café shared with Daily Star what the Holey Artisan Bakery meant for them.