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“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature”. Is she really?

It concerns me that Tate’s apologists range from impressionable boys in my grade 9 classroom to 30-something-year-old single dads. My own mother calls me a ‘feminist’ with such chagrin in her tone, it begins to feel like a slur.
10 March 2023, 04:00 AM

Razia Khan Amin: A Bangladeshi writer in English

As an academic, I often share with students my writings that are related to the courses I teach. That was not the case with our educators when I was a student in the Department of English at Dhaka University. The reason was not because there were no writers among our teachers.
30 December 2022, 18:00 PM

Book app connects Ukrainian fathers with refugee children

The books are helping her family process difficult emotions, Bilan said, as her son Pasha showed visitors his favourite, a book called The Day War Came To Rondo.
8 November 2022, 08:50 AM

The reason we consume mindless media

We, as a society, give far too much importance to intelligent content.
3 November 2022, 00:00 AM

The unfortunate apathy of bystanders

Most bystanders do nothing to help.
11 August 2022, 00:00 AM

How much Bangla should we really know?

In today's English dominated world, does the youth know enough Bangla?
11 May 2022, 20:11 PM

A measure of our society

December is the month of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities and the Human Rights Day, but what do these signify and why are they failing to uphold their purposes?
11 December 2017, 18:00 PM

Tall men's higher calling

They call it "Long Man Society" and it is literally so. All the men in the club are at least six feet tall. Care to know why they formed it?
14 January 2016, 18:00 PM

I am a proud 36-year-old: Vidya Balan

Vidya Balan feels that the reason women are wary of revealing their age is because of the pressure to look young in a "youth obsessed society".
8 September 2015, 16:07 PM