Casual misogyny is ingrained in our society

What are you doing? Why did you not get better grades than the first girl in your class? If she can do this despite being a girl, why can you not do so being a boy? - these are the exact lines I often used to hear from my mother when I was little.

Being a curious little boy, I asked my mother why she could not be first in class just because she was a girl. Why was she any different?

But she used to ignore those questions.

At first glance, this story might sound trivial, just a mother scolding

Remembering Bangabandhu: The larger-than-life leader

Leader, legend, Bangabandhu--is any attribution really enough for him? Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the epitome of patriotism, the father of the nation, is a name inseparable from the name Bangladesh. The nation remembers him solemnly on his 101th birthday, just a few days before celebrating the nation's 50th birthday itself.

Indeed Bangabandhu acted as the architect of this independent nation. With pure passion, organising skills and winsome mentality, he became a great leader and establ

Triumphant girls return to hero’s welcome

The Bangladesh National women’s football team members wave hands during the victory parade along the capital city roads on their return from Nepal with the SAFF Women’s Football Championship trophy on Wednesday. — Sony Ramany

The victorious Bangladesh National women’s football team got a grand reception, along with a victory parade upon returning home from Nepal on Wednesday afternoon after their triumph in the SAFF Women’s Football Championship with a perfect record.

The glorious parade that

Sleep cycle disruption by social media

IT is 12 midnight; seems just too early to sleep. All the friends are online; need to scroll some more to make sure not missing out on anything interesting updated by the friends.

1.30 am; will go to bed after half an hour. Before that, all the unanswered messages in chat-box need to be replied to.

3 am; oh didn't even notice, it's too late, should sleep now. But wait, one final go through is needed for all the notifications, right? Must comment on some posts too. After a while, Fazar Azan b

Floating houses: A way of making peace with floods

The people of Bangladesh have long been living with natural calamities that ravage lives and properties and cause immense sufferings to them. The most common among them is flood, which forces hundreds of thousands of people, almost every year, to leave their inundated homes and take refuge in flood shelters.

Is there a way to end this frequent misery? Indeed, thanks to its ‘Core Bangladesh’ research project, the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) has brought a phenomenal