Naziba Basher

The worst thing about travelling around Dhaka is being stuck in traffic. Spending hours inside a stagnant car, bus or an auto rickshaw can be unnerving and agitating.

Stepping out of the house, most people are busy squinting eyes, wrinkling noses, trying to avoid the scorching sun.

Amidst the rat-race of studies and careers, every year board examinees face immense pressure during exams, and even more so, before results come out.

It's results day! And what exactly does results day mean? Did you think it's a day when exam results come out? You are gravely mistaken.

“One, two, three, all eyes on me!”

A Teach for Bangladesh Fellow is a dignitary- not in his or her lifestyle, or in their fame and money, or in all clichéd ways one becomes a dignitary.

Contact lenses have become very popular in our country over the past 10 years or so.

Every two years the Asia and Oceania Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (AOFOG) holds the SS Ratnam- Young Gynaecologist Award (SSR-YGA) to honour gynaecologists from all over the world.

When she was just a child, her father used to frequently say, “My daughter is going to grow up to be a barrister one day!”

What started out as a course project, turned into a life-changing event for one child, named Pavel, who thought he was damned for life.

It is very frustrating to wake up on a weekend and realise that all your plans with your friends have gone down the drain with heavy showers of rain.

Almeer Ahsan Asif, a graduate in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from American International University, Bangladesh (AIUB), always wanted to do something for those in need.

The word 'reptile' may evoke a reaction of disgust in most people, but in Shahriar Caeser Rahman it evokes happy, loving emotions. “Not just reptiles.

It is that time of the year again- hot, sunny and humid mornings turning into showers of rain for the rest of the day. Along with that comes the swarm of mosquitoes everywhere we go while we're terrified of what one bite will do to us. One of the scariest things a mosquito can do is give us dengue fever.

“Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.” – Nelson Mandela

Make pots, pans and little mugs,

Growing up in a middle-class family belonging to Gazipur, Probal Rashid had an ordinary childhood. Completing his schooling and Bachelor's in Business Administration in his home-town, Probal joined the Centre for Asian Arts and Cultures for a 2 month-long foundation course on photography to cater to his childhood knack for taking photographs.

“Oh my God, I ate way too much this Eid.” ”You think you ate too much? I can still taste the chicken biryani in my belches!”

No matter how much we've grown up with Harry Potter, or The Lord of The Rings, there is a part of us that will always remember, unfortunately, that magic is not real.

Coming back home around 10 or 11 at night, after a heavy iftar, a world full of shopping, traffic and human stampedes, one's mind may wander into the thoughts of sweet, sweet slumber.