Remember that you will feel isolated, you will feel homesick but know that it takes time for a new place to feel like home.
How can one describe “Brahmastra” as anything but a Marvel movie set in India? Director Alejandro Iñárritu had famously labelled superhero movies as cultural genocide, adding “They have been poison… because the audience is so overexposed to plot and explosions… that mean nothing about the experience of being human.”
I’ve had to make countless adjustments to the way I go about my day thanks to my back pain. No high heels, no slouching, no watching TV from the living room couch, because there is no position of sitting on a sofa for more than 30 minutes that won’t cost me dearly.
Bite-sized news portals essentially operate as highlights, without the full story.
The appeal of Derry Girls lies in finding comedy in absolute tragedy.
I never intend to pull an all-nighter. It’s just that some nights, the hours fly but things don’t come together.
The thing about my to-do lists is that I know I’m not going to get around to doing all of the things on it. It’s reassuring to have a list.
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are currently underway. As I write this, the US has the most medals, while China has the most gold medals.
The thrill of getting your first instrument is incomparable. After playing around on a harmonium for a while trying to learn Bangla music, one day when I was at my grandmother’s house, my dad called to say our new instrument was here. It was an upright piano and all I could ask on the phone was what colour it was.
Mrittika Anan Rahman (MAR): What does it say about Bollywood that it became mediators of so many of India and Bangladesh’s neighbouring cultures through its adaptation of stories such as Mughal-E-Azam, Umrao Jaan, or Laila Majnu?
After every new app gains popularity among the youth, it is inevitable that soon its reputation is to be tarnished after some unfortunate news surfaces about the platform being misused by certain users.
Today we're going to make candles out of a raincoat.
Being a reader comes with its own sense of guilt. In my head there’s a certain number of books you have to read per month to retain the status of a “reader”, sort of like renewing your membership to some kind of cool club.
Mother’s Day is around the corner and I’m sticking with my usual routine of ordering flowers and avoiding watching Mother’s Day the movie for yet another year (it’s because of the colourful reviews).
When we are spoilt for choice by the seemingly endless variety of product options and tempted to splurge by the baffling affordability of pricing,
