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PhD applicants from universities across Bangladesh are increasingly securing success, especially over the last decade.

The very essence of Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese’s Dark on Netflix lies in the paradox that the characters strive to make themselves count, to be remembered, to be seen in any way, and yet the very…

The world felt eerily still in 2020. Streets were emptied, faces disappeared behind masks, and every day seemed to begin with another grim statistic. During those endless months of lockdown, when everything felt uncertain and strangely dystopian, I…

Few video game franchises have shaped the gaming industry quite like DOOM. Since its debut in 1993, the series has influenced generations of first-person shooters, turning a simple premise, one man against the forces of Hell, into a…

Mannan works at a jewellery stall at Sugandha Point between training sessions. Fatema, on the other hand, has been told, more than once, that surfing will tan her skin and hurt her chances of getting married.

I have never been fond of bus rides. I prefer the train. While visually pleasing, the aesthetic offered by a bus drowns out quickly when the backdrop is a smelly bus seat that screams out dust at the…

Meena was one of the very few local-language cartoons Bangladesh ever produced. For most of us who grew up in the 90s and 2000s, it was simply a cartoon we watched between homework and dinner. It was about…

There is a peculiar tenderness in the way Bangladeshi public universities protect their oldest tradition: the humiliation of twenty-something-year-old juniors by another twenty-something-year-old seniors who, thirteen or fourteen months prior, were being ritually humiliated themselves. 

Do you remember those Monday afternoons when you were still a child and the TV would come alive with a monstrous roar from Godzilla?

Some are calling this movie “average.” They say it has less action and fewer cameos. The villains don’t get enough screen time. (Spoiler alert) Even MJ doesn’t end up with Peter in the end. In my mind, none…