Mithi Chowdhury
Mithi Chowdhury is a dog-loving-movie-watching-mediocrity-fearing normal person. Either that or a penguin.
Mithi Chowdhury is a dog-loving-movie-watching-mediocrity-fearing normal person. Either that or a penguin.
Puppies are insatiable floof monsters who'll try to destroy anything within grasp. Therefore, you have to make your living space safe for its arrival. Take a good look around your house, especially the room your puppy will be spending the most time in, and try to identify all the items it can bite, chew, or pull down. Be especially wary of things made of leather, faux leather and PVC (mostly bags and shoes) as teething puppies love to sink their teeth into anything soft and rubbery. Objects with sharp edges and breakables should be stowed away as far as possible.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is perhaps the most culturally significant movie of the last year. In the protagonist Mildred, director Martin McDonagh portrays a woman who's had enough of the town's corruption plaguing her life and decides to do something about it.
In Bangladesh, 6,582 women die from cervical cancer every year. If the number seems small at first glance, here's another: 11,956 cases get diagnosed annually, while over 58.7 million women (aged 15 or above) are at risk.
There is a definite excitement that comes along with the month of February, one that has to do with the beginning of Ekushey Boi
I have a love-hate relationship with the coming-of-age genre. Blame it on excessive binges of John Hughes duds in the 90s (Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles), but I've grown weary of them.
Social media is, without a doubt, deeply entrenched in every aspect of my life. I have a Facebook account to appease prying family members, while I take to Instagram to share the more risqué highlights of the day.
Watching Call Me by Your Name felt like flipping through the pages of a personal diary, sheets littered with memories of a bittersweet summer romance.
Congratulations on graduating university. You've been preparing to step into the real world your entire life.
“We are moving away from nature. If this continues, then our civilisation, history and our existence will be at stake,” said Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor at the award-giving ceremony of Junior Climate Champions 2014 held at Bangla Academy.
“Avengers: Age of Ultron” begins with a captivating scene – our favourite cast of superheroes in combat with the terrorist organisation
The question arises, is there any scope for self-actualisation in such an environment? Do they really learn to cope with the real world from within their carefully-controlled domain?
Imagine a trekking club, several football fields, a basketball gym, a couple of tennis courts, rooms full of futuristic smart-boards, and a number of clean, comfortable living quarters to share with your friends – sounds like a dream, right? Well that's exactly what Indus International School aimed to do: create the perfect environment for their students to nurture their talents, while fostering their individual needs.
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) opens with a rather baffling scene - a man levitating in a Buddha-esque position (in his tighty whities), while an apparently disembodied voice expresses disgust with the quality of life it's been subject to.
In the movie 'When Harry met Sally', Harry pompously states that men and women can never be friends as a mutual attraction is inevitable.
Coca-Cola Bangladesh and Radio Foorti have taken universities by storm with their jointly organised 'Coca-Cola Happy Hour' – an ambitious project to provide a platform for the nation's talented youngsters.
Jatratronica, organised by Goethe-Institut and Jatra Biroti (in Banani, Dhaka) on February 19, aimed to bring into focus the budding electronic music scenes of South Asia and Germany.