The summer of 2024 did not arrive in Bangladesh with the gentle rustle of monsoon winds or the comforting embrace of rain washing over the chaotic streets of Dhaka. Instead, it arrived with a storm of a different kind, a tempest of fire, iron, and an awakening that would forever...
We’ve all seen them. Those flashy, clickbait YouTube thumbnails with a creator pointing at a screen in fake shock: “How I Learned to Code in 7 Days!” or “Master the English in One Week!” If you spend time scrolling, you’ve been bombarded by these “skill hacks.” They promise the world...
For Sihan, history was never supposed to be about standing on the frontlines of a revolution. He was only sixteen, a dedicated tenth grader whose biggest battles were supposed to be fought in classrooms, textbooks, and exam halls. Like many boys his age in Bangladesh, he carried a quiet, heavy...
Everything around you bends, snaps, or flies away in the chaos. But what happens when you plant your feet firmly into the damp ground and refuse to move? You become the anchor. You become the center of gravity in a world spinning wildly out of control. Yes! You, the teenager...
Have you ever stopped to think about what makes a hero? We usually imagine people with superpowers, wearing capes or indestructible armor. We see them in movies, completely fearless, facing down villains without hesitation. But real life isn’t a movie. In the real world, a hero usually looks exactly like...
00:59 The glowing red digits on the laptop screen blinked with a cruel, unforgiving rhythm, displaying exactly fifty-nine minutes. That was the entirety of the fragile timeline stretching between Raju and an absolute, unmitigated catastrophe. The highly encrypted email had arrived from an unknown server just moments ago, stark and...
Imagine this: It’s the middle of the night. The streets of Dhaka, Chattogram, or Sylhet are completely empty, but the roar coming from the living rooms is deafening. You look outside, and the rooftops are painted in the colors of nations thousands of miles away, mostly the iconic light blue...
The alarm clock rings loudly at dawn. This is not the standard time for a young adult living in the busy heart of Khulna. For most of his peers, this hour is the middle of the night, a time strictly reserved for deep sleep after scrolling through endless social media...
If your brain often feels like a web browser with ninety-nine tabs open and loud music playing from one of them but you can’t figure out which one to close, you are definitely not alone. Between school, coaching centers, family expectations, and the endless, exhausting scroll of social media, being...
Have you ever noticed that one person who remains entirely unfazed in the middle of absolute chaos? They breathe steadily, move with purpose, and remain entirely unbothered by the hurricane of stress around them. How do they do it? Are they secretly robots? As someone who used to hyperventilate when...
Have you ever updated your status to “Feeling excited!” while sitting alone, feeling absolutely nothing? Or smiled through a family dawat, telling relatives your exam prep is going “great,” while your stomach ties into anxious knots? Growing up in Bangladesh, chances are you are an expert at wearing masks. We...
Growing up in Bangladesh, English often feels intimidating. We memorize paragraphs for our exams from ‘A Rainy Day’ to ‘Traffic Jam’ but when it comes to actually opening our mouths and speaking, our palms sweat. We worry about grammar and fear our friends will mock our pronunciation. The way we...
It begins with a strange contradiction. A student who desperately wants to excel postpones studying. A writer delays working on a story they have been imagining for months. A researcher avoids analysing data that could lead to an important discovery. The puzzle is not lack of ambition but avoidance of...
Have you caught your breath yet? Because the 2026 FIFA World Cup has been an absolute rollercoaster, and if you’ve been staying awake until 3 AM here in Bangladesh to catch the matches, you know exactly what I’m talking about. We found ourselves setting our alarms, grabbing our snacks, and...
The neon signs of future Dhaka bled their harsh pinks and blues into the stagnant floodwaters of the lower sectors. Here in the depths of what used to be Nilkhet, physical books had long been replaced by glowing neural drives. Young Mafiq navigated the cramped alleyways with his hood pulled...
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back...
I am constantly reminded of the bygone times Those garden’s springs, those chorus of chimes Gone are the freedoms of our own nests Where we could come and go at our own pleasure My heart aches the moment I think Of the buds’ smile at the dew’s tears That beautiful...
Dear Friends, Assalamu alaikum. Hope you are staying well, though some of you, who are sitting for HSC and equivalent examinations from the Chattogram region, are struggling to cope with the flood, landslide and other calamities. In the meantime, July has arrived for those of you who participated in the...
A Pure Heart “There is in the body a clump of flesh – if it becomes good, the whole body becomes good and if it becomes bad, the whole body becomes bad. And indeed it is the heart.” (Al-Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 2, Number 49) The Prophet Muhammad PBUH taught...
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