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Satire / BBA student gets married, calls it the best networking experience of his life

Nothing is impossible – if you believe in your ability to make the right connections, that is.

#Perspective / Food first, photos later? Not in the age of Instagram!

I was recently out with my friends trying out this restaurant. The food was delivered and just as I was about to dive in, my friends collectively stopped my hand and unarmed me of my cutlery. Why? They stopped it because they needed to take pictures of it so that 200 or so random people on their Instagram/Facebook could feel united with them.

#Satire / Bangladesh needs a protest to protest the protests

If you have been keeping up with the news, you would be forgiven for thinking that Bangladesh’s national pastime is becoming "who can protest the loudest." With protests popping up on every street corner like pop-up shops, it’s time to address the real issue.

Satire / Visa aspirants buying air coolers to get quick approvals

Economists, as well as those who don’t bother to understand economics, have been baffled by the findings of a recent market research which showed a sharp rise in people buying air coolers even before the heatwave started..They were shocked, more mercilessly than the shock Real Madrid gave

#Perspective / The salon visits before Eid: A hilariously tragic tale

Although this tends to happen in almost every salon visit, the festive season brings out the best of their rather unconventional selling methods.

Satire / Guy sells ancestral property to afford restaurant’s iftar platter

Man sells ancestral property to afford an iftar platter at a high-end restaurant.

Satire / Student demands extra credits for being single on Valentine's Day

Rahul Aman, a frustrated Engineering student, believes that universities need to offer emotional compensation in the form of extra credits, a sentiment shared by most others in their department. 

A day in the life of a social butterfly!

Another winter, another dozen weddings to attend. The pomp and circumstance surrounding a wedding is on steroids these days in Dhaka and you are here for it! Having secured your invitation to the most extravagant ones of the season, your outfits have been sorted, each more extravagant than the last.

Satire / Guy freezing in Dhaka winter aspires to pursue higher studies in Canada

Like hundreds of his fellow escapists, Shadman Sakib also dreams of moving to Canada for higher studies and hopes that education will somehow magically work out for him in Manitoba.

October 21, 2024
October 21, 2024

BBA student gets married, calls it the best networking experience of his life

Nothing is impossible – if you believe in your ability to make the right connections, that is.

September 5, 2024
September 5, 2024

Food first, photos later? Not in the age of Instagram!

I was recently out with my friends trying out this restaurant. The food was delivered and just as I was about to dive in, my friends collectively stopped my hand and unarmed me of my cutlery. Why? They stopped it because they needed to take pictures of it so that 200 or so random people on their Instagram/Facebook could feel united with them.

August 27, 2024
August 27, 2024

Bangladesh needs a protest to protest the protests

If you have been keeping up with the news, you would be forgiven for thinking that Bangladesh’s national pastime is becoming "who can protest the loudest." With protests popping up on every street corner like pop-up shops, it’s time to address the real issue.

May 5, 2024
May 5, 2024

Visa aspirants buying air coolers to get quick approvals

Economists, as well as those who don’t bother to understand economics, have been baffled by the findings of a recent market research which showed a sharp rise in people buying air coolers even before the heatwave started..They were shocked, more mercilessly than the shock Real Madrid gave

April 7, 2024
April 7, 2024

The salon visits before Eid: A hilariously tragic tale

Although this tends to happen in almost every salon visit, the festive season brings out the best of their rather unconventional selling methods.

March 18, 2024
March 18, 2024

Guy sells ancestral property to afford restaurant’s iftar platter

Man sells ancestral property to afford an iftar platter at a high-end restaurant.

February 14, 2024
February 14, 2024

Student demands extra credits for being single on Valentine's Day

Rahul Aman, a frustrated Engineering student, believes that universities need to offer emotional compensation in the form of extra credits, a sentiment shared by most others in their department. 

February 10, 2024
February 10, 2024

A day in the life of a social butterfly!

Another winter, another dozen weddings to attend. The pomp and circumstance surrounding a wedding is on steroids these days in Dhaka and you are here for it! Having secured your invitation to the most extravagant ones of the season, your outfits have been sorted, each more extravagant than the last.

January 14, 2024
January 14, 2024

Guy freezing in Dhaka winter aspires to pursue higher studies in Canada

Like hundreds of his fellow escapists, Shadman Sakib also dreams of moving to Canada for higher studies and hopes that education will somehow magically work out for him in Manitoba.

January 10, 2024
January 10, 2024

Faculty member shocked to realise that a high CGPA doesn’t make him a good teacher

While good grades are a reasonable basis for the primary evaluation of a candidate’s capabilities, it doesn’t seem to automatically translate into adequate teaching skills.