All Section,Art & Glamour

‘Writers are like lonely stars’

Himu Akram is a popular Bangladeshi director who believes in very simple storytelling process on the screen. He has been regularly chosen on television for the last eleven years. His dramas of many spectacular performances are still being made. Here’s a conversation about the stories and drama...

Special Supplement,Magazine

If you want to be

Do you think the love lines are hidden in the curves of a woman? Is it really so?Love poetry has, of course, been with us since the beginning of time. Lame pick-up lines were outmoded even in Mesozoic times; we diminish ourselves with cheap dating gimmickry. And, who would want to court anyone who c...

All Section,Education & Culture

Homage to Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin

Zainul Abedin was an artist of extraordinary talent and international repute. He played a revolutionary role in the modern art movement in Bangladesh. He is widely acclaimed for his ‘Famine Sketches‘. Through a series, he not only documented the cruel famine of 1943 but also showed its s...

Education & Culture

Need for saving Bangla from distortion

Distortion is the mistake of misrepresenting any fact. And according to researchers distorting a language is the worst level of distortion there can be. It hampers a nation from building the backbone of a country. In this era, the youngsters always tend to let others know and boaster that they are t...

Magazine

How rock ‘n’ roll came to us

I hardly recall the time when I was in the age of wearing short pants and the seeds of rock ‘n’ roll were planted in me during that time by my uncle who used to know some of the then rock stars who are legends now. Still our generation always tends to know about the legacy of Bangla rock...