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For many students studying in the English departments across Bangladesh, studying abroad on a fully funded scholarship often feels like an impossible dream. Scholarships are commonly associated with STEM subjects, leaving students from Literature, Linguistics, Cultural Studies and…

Not long ago, Como was a small club nobody talked about. They played in Italy’s third and fourth divisions, in front of a few thousand fans, in an old stadium built back in 1927. Nobody thought this club…

For most readers, picking up a novel is an ordinary act. For visually impaired students in Bangladesh, access to academic material has slowly improved through Braille and assistive technology. Novels, poetry and other literary works have not kept…

Walk into a BBA orientation session anywhere in Dhaka and ask the room what they plan to major in, and you’ll get a wall of confident answers: Finance, Marketing, HR. However, at many of the country’s leading business…

Any chronically online teenager would know what the average performative being looks like. The quintessential post of such a person includes a book, perhaps Atomic Habits, a cup of matcha that tastes like the breath of a cow…

There is a particular kind of discomfort that is difficult to explain. It is not the fear of a monster, nor the shock of a jump scare. It is subtler than that. It arrives quietly, like when a…

Television spent the better part of two decades teaching us that the smartest person in the room was the one who trusted nobody. Heroes became antiheroes. Fathers became monsters who happened to love their children in the gaps…

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…