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IQRA L. QAMARI

What are the IELTS essentials?

IELTS is an immensely popular standardised exam of English language proficiency.
23 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Applying for the best job in the world

The latest start-up in town catering to the digital marketing industry is looking forward to expanding its team. Within only a week of its establishment, it has managed to gather a sizeable share of clientele.
9 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Being a klutz

Klutziness is a curse. Your life basically transforms into a slapstick comedy with the laughter tracks echoing through it for real. As a klutz myself, days that do not offer any complementary scratches or bruises are a rare case.
10 October 2018, 18:00 PM

Rainy Day Protocol for Dummies

Try not to get hit by all the sentiments listening to November Rain. At least wait till November rolls around.
1 August 2018, 18:00 PM

Reminiscing high school romance

Last night I stumbled upon my younger cousin, a high-school student, chatting away with a girl from his class for whom he apparently has a 'thing'. It took me down a dusty memory lane of high school romance and made me feel like a wrinkly 60 year old with a cane and a chronic cough. But I'm just in my 20s having an existential crisis.
30 May 2018, 18:00 PM

A guide to shopping in Doza

If you are one of those people who always keep wondering how girls in Dhaka always manage to somewhat keep up with the haute couture despite always complaining about being broke, then you have not been paying enough attention.
25 April 2018, 18:00 PM

When you’re not that into make-up

There was once a time when makeup within our geography only meant the face would be plastered with a foundation ten times lighter than the actual skin colour and the eyes would be made to look no less dramatic than Sauron's ablaze eyeballs. But now the times they are a changin'.
28 March 2018, 18:00 PM

Urban Dictionary - Dhaka Edition

Badbuzz (can also be substituted by pera): A feeling that demolishes all your happy vibes and kills all the “feel good” hormones in your body. You might wake up a content person, cherishing the rainbows and butterflies with a spring in your step, when suddenly something or someone evokes this “badbuzz” in you and all your vibrations for the rest of the day will be out of tune.
28 February 2018, 18:00 PM

How not to be a jerk this Pahela Baishakh

'Tis that time of the year again, when porota-dim bhaji are replaced by panta-ilish for breakfast, the time when loud and flamboyant
12 April 2017, 18:00 PM

RULES OF TRAVELLING IN A CNG

You know something is inherently wrong with a mode of transportation when you address it as the fuel it runs on.
22 March 2017, 18:00 PM

When Parents Retire

This period is the slump of your parent's work cycle, the very cul-de-sac.
22 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Are you dating a Quasi-parent?

Does your significant other call you every ten minutes to ask about your whereabouts? Do they restrict you from going to certain places or impose a curfew for returning home even before your mom does?
25 January 2017, 18:00 PM

From Outer Space to Dhaka

I have been assigned a place called Dhaka, to study the human behaviour there. I wish to contribute significantly to project “Self-Destructing Planet” this year as I am expecting a promotion. It will be late December by the time I arrive there and it is mandatory I remain vigilant. They cannot find out I am not from here.
11 January 2017, 18:00 PM

MEDITEC 2016 - Combining doctors, engineers and computer scientists for better healthcare

Long gone are the days when the healthcare sector of a country was solely managed by the medical practitioners. The requirements of a progressive world demand for technology and engineering to work in alliance within the medical precinct.
21 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Why not learn a foreign language?

Being a bi/multilingual is like owning a linguistic superpower with which you can upgrade all aspects of your life - be it your career, higher education or social life.
14 December 2016, 18:00 PM

A f(l)ight with your stage fright

“His palms are sweaty, knees week, arms are heavy, there's vomit on his sweater already…”
30 November 2016, 18:00 PM

Bengali Dawat 101

These are not the regular dinners you see in movies. Dawats are the quintessence of our race: intense cricket discussions, fed up moms running after their young and trying to feed them, and that smell of kacchi biryani that is teasing your salivary glands from the kitchen but is taking eons to be served.
2 November 2016, 18:00 PM

Travelling For the First Time with Friends

Chances are that the marked date on your calendar will one day no longer trigger a sigh of failure from you, or those
5 October 2016, 18:00 PM
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