Mrittika Anan Rahman

I find very little time to devote to a hobby or learn a new skill because most of my time is spent tripping down stairs, being eternally scared the elevator doors are going to hit me as they close or sitting in a car terrified because each bump on the road is another chance my coffee is going to spill out of its cup and on me.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley said that ‘the beginning is always today’ but for those of us who better know that life truly begins when you successfully enter a relationship.

Murders, family secrets, a wedding and a voyage - Netflix’s latest Spanish period drama ‘High Seas’ (or Alta Mar) (both dubbed and

My knowledge about sending mail is limited strictly to how it’s portrayed in the wizarding world. If I am writing a letter I assume there

How do you draw audience to theatres when they already know the full plot of a movie? Simply banking on nostalgia is a risk Disney

In a galaxy far far away lies the Bangladeshi equivalent of Mordor, the land known as Gawsia. Feared by many but revered by even more, the strange land seemed like a completely different planet. One fateful day, four friends took it upon themselves to bravely venture into the heart of this land they’d heard so much about.

Is the real reason why your life’s quest of finding true love is so difficult because you only have one shot? Rom-coms at times have an

April 23 is World Book Day and in its honour I took a trip to Dhaka’s unrivalled book buying and selling hub – Nilkhet. With rows after rows of alleys circling around each other and tiny lanes that lead to an unending number of shops, Nilkhet sells just about every type of book one could possibly want.

The most popular online communication platforms today create a framework for an open environment where every move of one person is clearly visible to the other.

We have read online that our jobs will no longer exist 40 years into the future because of rapid changes in technology and society. Besides scaring us, this thought also leads us to wonder what life would be like if jobs from the past - and jobs currently at the threat of extinction - continue to shape our days.

Who needs more mundane updates about the world when your own life is stressful enough? Surely a dose of environmental disasters, pictures of one foreign leader shaking hands with another, and news of a Chinese robot mastering yet another task that makes you less valuable as a human being isn't going to lift your spirits at the start of the day.

Beauty pageants were always an interesting affair, even before the Miss Bangladesh contest propelled them to national attention.

I have never been great at math. Let's just get that out of the way. Am I the one who looks around helplessly to friends when the waiter approaches with the bill because I have no clue what my share is?

With new restaurants springing up in Dhaka faster than you can say “overpriced”, it's hard to choose a place to dine everytime you want to eat out.

If you've had your eyes on them for a while, take this quiz to find out if you should make a move. Award yourself points as you go.

This was going to be quick. She knew it; it had to be.

For those of us who are swept up in the world of Bollywood, we live for the dance numbers, the dramatic monologues and montages of flashback sequences accompanied by emotionally exploitative music. The harsh truth of reality is that life doesn't exactly pan out like a Bollywood movie. As Bollywood fans, we have to go through certain struggles