Azmin Azran

When did you open your Facebook account?

In a video message shared with students over TikTok, Vice Chancellor of Basindhara University, Professor Dr Md Fatiul Islam, PhD, MSc, BEd, MFeel, RTruth, announced that tuitions for the fall semester will be slashed by 20 percent.

Social media moves at a mind boggling pace. It’s literally mind boggling because if you tried to keep up with every trend or every story that’s in the conversation, you will get confused, dizzy, and eventually sick. It is known.

This past month, I think I spent the most time with my parents since I was a toddler. And that brought me to a realisation. Millennials and

These are unprecedented times. It really is, I asked my parents and they don’t remember a global pandemic. I looked at the history books and

The pressure to be productive during this period of self-isolation is one of the daftest things I have ever seen. This is preceded by the assumption that everyone’s at home having a great time, which is also one of the daftest things

The study of history has been a lifelong area of interest for me. Invariably, one stumbles upon the question of what purpose it serves. A lot of people think that history repeats itself. Some people like to think history will give you a basis on which to build identities for the future.

“It actually feels like my windpipe is contracting and not letting any air pass through.”

A seemingly random YouTube channel, one might watch one of their videos and be forgiven for thinking that “robelinda2” is one of

By the time this issue of SHOUT goes out, it will have sunk in. But as I’m writing this, Bangladesh U19 men’s cricket team have won the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup less than 24 hours ago and I am unable to process this. It’s had the effect of making me smile every time my mind has drifted towards cricket this past day, and Akbar Ali’s heroics seems to be what everyone is talking about. What a time to be alive!

I recently left Dhaka for a couple of days. I was coming back into the city on a long haul bus, entering through Sayedabad, and the image that hit me was striking.

Experiences at the DITF that unite the people who call Dhaka their home.

See if this sounds familiar. You are a young adult who’s grown up in Dhaka. You have visited places around the country, or maybe even around the world with your family, but the city is the only place you’ve stayed in for a prolonged period of time.

The chilly winds of early November

There’s a point in space where two lines meet, An angle, a corner, a bedazzling cosmic feat.

I am scared of lizards. The common house lizard will send me jumping out of my seat running to the nearest lizard free spot I can find.

There’s a Bangla proverb that has something to do with small chillies being spicier that used to gross me out once upon a time.

I write to you from the comfort of my work chair. It’s a good chair, it has arm rests and the back support is slightly inclined. Although it ends halfway up my back when I sit up straight and I wish it didn’t, I’m okay with it.

I’ve always loved the news. One of my early memories is watching the news that came on in our living room TV with my father, and at

The attempted music floating out of the barbershop was positively ghastly, but I had no choice other than to keep approaching it.