Noora Shamsi Bahar
Noora Shamsi Bahar is a senior lecturer at the Department of English and Modern Languages, North South University, and a published researcher and translator.
Noora Shamsi Bahar is a senior lecturer at the Department of English and Modern Languages, North South University, and a published researcher and translator.
The parallel between the 2024 Met Gala and 'The Garden of Time,' a short speculative fiction written by JG Ballard, is uncanny.
Let Toomaj Salehi’s words strike a chord in our hearts, a chord that will spur action, no matter how small
Would it be too much to ask you/ To forgive me for the carnal sin I did not commit?
Guillermo Del Toro’s stop-motion animation, Pinocchio (2022) is loosely based on Carlo Collodi’s novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883).
Martyrs and-slash-or heroes they call us Is it worth all the fuss? While they celebrate We ache to recuperate
Even worse is rewarding someone for doing so.
As an Iranian woman living in Bangladesh, I weep for girls and women in Iran on International Women’s Day this year.
Despite knowing that they may be arrested, beaten, or killed the way 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was killed by the Morality Police on September 16, Iran's women are protesting valiantly.
STAR Cineplex’s act of benevolence confirms the power distance between the capitalist private company and the lungi-clad customer.
What the Narsingdi Railway incident really reveals about our society's attitude towards women.
Some time ago, I took to Facebook and wrote about an encounter with a member of the Hijra community, and how, because I didn’t have any change to offer, she (Ms Roy) told me she’d be happy if I could give her one of my makeup products.
What makes them my favourites, if I can’t remember the names of the engrossing characters or the details of the intricate plots in some of my “favourite” books?
Why is Wordle so addictive and why are a lot of people so obsessed with it?
A few days ago, a video that went viral showed a young college-going girl beating her harasser on a bus, ripping his shirt in the process, and making him beg for forgiveness.
A nosy parker asks, “Why aren’t you having kids yet? You’ve been married for two years already! Why the delay?
We don’t normally think of toys from a critical perspective because, well, they’re just toys. But if one were to reflect on it, one might become easily disenchanted by these children’s playthings.
The most naïve boy of Dhabaldhola village had been murdered. The decapitated body lay on the demarcation line between the Bangari field and the Taro crop-field.