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Satire / BBA student gets married, calls it the best networking experience of his life
Nothing is impossible – if you believe in your ability to make the right connections, that is.
Satire / iPhone 16 users claim biggest feature is a scam
The iPhone 16 series launched a couple of weeks ago, coinciding with a sudden rise in online ads by people selling human kidneys.
Government losing ‘Aandar’ control trying to bring it under control
In an unprecedented twist, the government keeps losing Aandar control while attempting to bring it under control. Aanda, or egg -- whatever people choose to call it doesn’t matter anymore as they are having breakfast without eggs.
Holy League unveils new leftist wing
“We represent the thoughts, feelings and experiences of the majority of Bangladesh. Our policies, philosophies and ideals are all BLESSED. You must understand this,” he yelled at the crowd.
A tale from the future: Ordinary students celebrate lynching 100th person
The year is 2028. Ordinary students have done something extraordinary yet again. Yesterday, they organised “Lunch for Lynching” to celebrate beating a hundred people to death since the “lucky seventh independence”.
Satire / ‘Natok Kom Koro Pio’
“Natok kom koro Pio,” the man said, his white beard shaking with fury.
Altruistic prisoners demand work-from-jail permission
When the world is busy inventing and discovering new things, the people of Chapasthan 2.0 are busy coming up with new demands with every passing hour.
Satire / Nation struggles with newfound freedom of speech
Who would have thought? From the yoke of authoritarianism, where everything you said had to be checked for the presence of words that could anger the powers that be, today, Bangladeshis can say whatever they want to.
Obsessed with rainbows, ex-faculty member slapped with restraining order
When the former part-time lecturer of Crack University was let go last year for his discriminatory language and actions, he was at a loss. Why had the university dismissed him for tearing up a book as an educator?
The Cancelling
The TV hummed slowly, filling the room with a soothing sound. Almost acting like a form of white noise.
Tyrant wakes up after 15 years, becomes good person
A tyrant who was on a drip of liquefied sleeping pills for the last 15 years because another tyrant had usurped him, woke up on August 7 and became a good person.
Heroes sparring over who had the better movie create local Avengers plot
“Eid without our local heroes’ fighting over their movies’ supremacy is like sweet without sugar. You cannot enjoy the festival wholly if they don’t fight,” Tausif, a local movie freak from Basabo, said while sharing a movie meme in his timeline on Facebook.
Satire writer shunned after 2- week gap in publication
A writer for this page lost his girlfriend, was shunned by his family and lost his job, all because there was no publication of this page for two weeks.
Gas distributor does some gaslighting
An official of the Largest Gas Distributor of Chapasthan (Lagadicha) assured subscribers that there was no reason to be concerned by the smell of gas that drove many of the capital’s residents to spend a night stargazing instead of lying in the comfort of their own beds.
Summer lover changes favourite season after air conditioner stops working
Everything changed when the inverter broke down.
Girlfriend breaks up with boyfriend because he’s obsessed with chikon jilapi
How obsession with chikon jilapi led to the end of a relationship.
Company blacking out windows to stop workers leaving at the sight of empty roads
A company in Dhaka has started blacking out its windows to increase productivity in the month of Ramadan.
People get angrier as iftar approaches: study
People get more and more frustrated and angry at each other as the time to break fast in the holy month of Ramadan approaches, a new study found.
Man stays in Bangladesh despite apparently acing IELTS, goes viral
It is a given that someone who secures a commendable score in the IELTS exam will go abroad, and not stay back in Bangladesh.
PC defends Bangladeshi salon’s ‘white supremacy’ caption
Bollywood escapee Priyanka Chopra Jonas spoke out in support of a Bangladeshi beauty salon that recently attracted the wrong kind of attention for including the words “white supremacy” on a Facebook post.
Tomorrow’s forecast
This poem is an ode to the poet Brian Bilston who knows it and writes about the human condition, relationships, and buses (according to his bio on his Facebook page)