Heritage
200-year-old twin temples continue to crumble
Standing tall since 1820, the Shree Shree Anandamoyee Shiva and Kali Mata Mandir, also known as “Dhaksinashar Mandir,” or “twin temple” in Mymensingh’s Muktagacha upazila were once revered for their architectural beauty and spiritual significance.
Panihar Public Library: A heritage in ruins
A library containing more than 7702 periodicals, encyclopedias and books on literature, religion, poetry, science and economics—all wasting away from neglect.
Govt takes over 300-year-old building in Ctg
The government has decided to take over a 300-year-old building located on Nazu Miah Lane at port city’s Patharghata for preservation due to its archaeological importance.
Reshaping life through Manipuri Dance
Manipuri exponent Warda Rihab is one of the most prominent classical dancers globally. While working towards her dream of becoming a dancer, she came across Sony Chowdhury nearly twelve years ago, who dreamt of becoming a Bharatanatyam dancer, just like she once wanted to.
Nature Quest: NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Bulbous nests fashioned and clumped onto trees by weaverbirds used to be a part of the rural landscape not so long ago.
SPECTACULAR STILTS
A pair of black-winged stilts foraging for insects in Charal Beel area of Chapainawabganj’s Gomostapur upazila. These migratory birds, known for their
GRACEFUL IN FLIGHT
Seagulls chasing vessels carrying tourists on way to the Saint Martin’s Island from Teknaf is a feast for the eyes of the visitors.
Nature Quest: Snake farm awaits govt nod for 3yrs
As a young man, while working in Saudi Arabia as a newspaper photographer for several years, Abdur Razzak of Nandipara village in Patuakhali Sadar
Those Good Old Days
"Let me tell you a few stories from the pre-historic era,” Enam Bhai clears his throat sitting in his glass walled cubicle with the fellow photographers working for The Daily Star.
Nature Quest: Grey peacock-pheasant of our hill forest
The Pablakhali Wildlife Sanctuary in Rangamati, rarely visited by tourists or researchers, is beautiful with mighty garjan and civit trees and home to hundreds of Hill Mynahs and families of Hoolock Gibbons.
Nature Quest: Courtship pageant in Tangua
Tangua haor is a mini ocean during monsoon. But in winter much of the water is gone and the haor turns into a maze of interconnected wetlands called beels. Once away from the muddy shores overgrown with reeds, one can see through the clear beel water a magnificent green carpet of plants at the bottom. This garden, hidden underneath the water, is visited by thousands of ducks during the winter months every year.
Sultanate era mosque in ruin
It's a wonder how one comes across unique structures from history and that too in Chittagong.
Crabs caught at wrong time
In the months of January and February, thousands of female crabs in the mangrove forests around Patuakhali's Kuakata clamber over roots and through mud to reach the saltwater edge of the Bay of Bengal. Their mission is clear: at the seashore, the eggs they carry will hatch into larvae, to swim away as plankton, as the start of a new generation.
Do you know all the surprising facts about Hummingbirds?
There are many surprising facts about Hummingbirds you probably do not know about.
The Temples of Puthia
The royal palace of Puthia, a small town near Rajshahi district, is one of the most popular archaeological sites of Bangladesh.
Nature Quest: The beauty of wild Ranggan
I have been to Aronnok quite a few times. It's a farmhouse close to the Ordinance Factory in Gazipur. This is one of the best farmhouses that I have seen in Bangladesh. This is neither a large garden nor a house -- it can rather be termed “a patch of dense forest.”
MAN AND HIS MANUSCRIPT
He was a sophisticated man - of letters and of fine arts. In fact, it had been reported by Charles D'Oyly, a public official and a painter, that "...his audience chamber is so crowded with English prints and paintings that not an inch of the walls can be seen."