What are the IELTS essentials?
IELTS is an immensely popular standardised exam of English language proficiency.
5y ago
Applying for the best job in the world
The latest start-up in town catering to the digital marketing industry is looking forward to expanding its team. Within only a week of its establishment, it has managed to gather a sizeable share of clientele.
5y ago
Being a klutz
Klutziness is a curse. Your life basically transforms into a slapstick comedy with the laughter tracks echoing through it for real. As a klutz myself, days that do not offer any complementary scratches or bruises are a rare case.
6y ago
Rainy Day Protocol for Dummies
Try not to get hit by all the sentiments listening to November Rain. At least wait till November rolls around.
6y ago
Reminiscing high school romance
Last night I stumbled upon my younger cousin, a high-school student, chatting away with a girl from his class for whom he apparently has a 'thing'. It took me down a dusty memory lane of high school romance and made me feel like a wrinkly 60 year old with a cane and a chronic cough. But I'm just in my 20s having an existential crisis.
6y ago
A guide to shopping in Doza
If you are one of those people who always keep wondering how girls in Dhaka always manage to somewhat keep up with the haute couture despite always complaining about being broke, then you have not been paying enough attention.
6y ago
When you’re not that into make-up
There was once a time when makeup within our geography only meant the face would be plastered with a foundation ten times lighter than the actual skin colour and the eyes would be made to look no less dramatic than Sauron's ablaze eyeballs. But now the times they are a changin'.
6y ago
Urban Dictionary - Dhaka Edition
Badbuzz (can also be substituted by pera): A feeling that demolishes all your happy vibes and kills all the “feel good” hormones in your body. You might wake up a content person, cherishing the rainbows and butterflies with a spring in your step, when suddenly something or someone evokes this “badbuzz” in you and all your vibrations for the rest of the day will be out of tune.
6y ago
April 13, 2017
How not to be a jerk this Pahela Baishakh
'Tis that time of the year again, when porota-dim bhaji are replaced by panta-ilish for breakfast, the time when loud and flamboyant
March 23, 2017
RULES OF TRAVELLING IN A CNG
You know something is inherently wrong with a mode of transportation when you address it as the fuel it runs on.
February 23, 2017
When Parents Retire
This period is the slump of your parent's work cycle, the very cul-de-sac.
January 26, 2017
Are you dating a Quasi-parent?
Does your significant other call you every ten minutes to ask about your whereabouts? Do they restrict you from going to certain places or impose a curfew for returning home even before your mom does?
January 12, 2017
From Outer Space to Dhaka
I have been assigned a place called Dhaka, to study the human behaviour there. I wish to contribute significantly to project “Self-Destructing Planet” this year as I am expecting a promotion. It will be late December by the time I arrive there and it is mandatory I remain vigilant. They cannot find out I am not from here.
December 22, 2016
MEDITEC 2016 - Combining doctors, engineers and computer scientists for better healthcare
Long gone are the days when the healthcare sector of a country was solely managed by the medical practitioners. The requirements of a progressive world demand for technology and engineering to work in alliance within the medical precinct.
December 15, 2016
Why not learn a foreign language?
Being a bi/multilingual is like owning a linguistic superpower with which you can upgrade all aspects of your life - be it your career, higher education or social life.
December 1, 2016
A f(l)ight with your stage fright
“His palms are sweaty, knees week, arms are heavy, there's vomit on his sweater already…”
November 3, 2016
Bengali Dawat 101
These are not the regular dinners you see in movies. Dawats are the quintessence of our race: intense cricket discussions, fed up moms running after their young and trying to feed them, and that smell of kacchi biryani that is teasing your salivary glands from the kitchen but is taking eons to be served.
October 6, 2016
Travelling For the First Time with Friends
Chances are that the marked date on your calendar will one day no longer trigger a sigh of failure from you, or those
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