In conversation with Kuhu Plamondon, the artist who turned the six-yards saree into a canvas for the city’s chaos and beauty. Artist Kuhu Plamondon has never believed in keeping still. Just…
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Understanding Autism in Children A 2022 autism study on children in Bangladesh, found that Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) prevalence was 17 per 10,000 young children – in other words, one in 589…
Why reducing your plastic exposure is the ultimate 2026 health goal For years, the moral language of plastic pollution has been outward-facing. Images of tangled turtles, choked seabirds, and floating islands of…
How one diasporic Bangladeshi content creator’s work is helping bridge cultures. There is a unique energy embodied by the Bangladeshi diaspora kid. We navigate between different worlds, finding connections to our culture…
Bangladeshi flavours claiming seats at the global table Bangladeshi cuisine is often overshadowed by the generic “Indian” label in the global food scene, even though Bangladeshi chefs have historically been the backbone…
From Dhaka’s factory floors to London’s most rarefied runway, Tanvir Mahidy reframes the language of fashion through waste, memory, and resistance, challenging what “Made in Bangladesh” has long been made to mean.…
Goutom Saha’s fashioned Bangladesh Bangladeshi fashion is loud, colourful, and impossible to ignore, much like a neon saree at a black-tie gala. But the real magic is quieter, subtler, and lives in…
How to use a 70-year-old sorting hack to manage your overwhelming to-do list.. We’ve all been there. You wake up, check your phone, and your digital planner looks less like a to-do…
Somewhere along the way, owning things became a way of proving who we are. But what happens when identity is built on objects designed to be replaced? Winter is gone. It’s time…
A nostalgic journey between memory, myth, and modern Bengali cinema. At a time when Bangladeshi cinema is navigating a transition between formula-driven commercial storytelling and a renewed interest in literary and character-driven…
Set within the confines of an island brothel, Uprising is a finely wrought meditation on power, inheritance, and the fragile architectures of resistance. Isolation is the primary currency of Tahmima Anam’s new…
Dhaka’s music scene runs loud and fast, but the Seesaw Collective is moving in the opposite direction, embracing space, patience, and the tension between notes. It is a common misconception that jazz…
Prothom Alo turned an arson attack against them into an art installation. For visitors to the exhibit, it was a catharsis. The title above, although it sounds very much like a cliche,…
At Bengal Shilpalay last March, The Handloom Tradition of Bangladesh, an exhibition and fair invited visitors into the world of Bangladesh’s handloom weavers. The first thing you notice is not the colours,…
Culture isn’t just words – it’s how companies live and breathe As a corporate trainer, I’ve had the privilege of working closely with over 350 companies across Bangladesh and beyond. From startups…
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Sultana’s Dream has inspired countless feminist utopias since it was published in 1905. It is not impossible that the short-story was on the reading list for the production of the blockbuster film Barbie, as it is a unique example in world literature of a feminist sci-fi alternative future.
This list gathers four works that ask difficult questions. What does it mean to create, as in Frankenstein? To return to faith, as in Minaret? To remember through taste, as in Crying in H Mart? To wait under watchful power, as in The Queue? These are not simply stories to finish. They are works to revisit, and eventually, to pass on.
The pink tax goes beyond products and into public space. The idea of a “pink tax” is often reduced to pricing disparities in consumer goods marketed to women. The debate tends…
The last two years have seen a sharp decline in women’s safety, both in physical and digital spaces. Women discuss the culture of compliance that impacts their lives. There was a…