Satireday

Satireday

Satire / Let's MoPE!

"Dhaka has become one big group project, where everyone's angry"

2m ago

Satire / Justice for Sale: Case Files Found at Tk 16 per Kg

Who knew justice could be 'that' quick, or cheap?

6m ago

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.

9m ago

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.

10m ago

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.

10m ago

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.

10m ago

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”.

10m ago

Satire / ‘Natok Kom Koro Pio’

“Natok kom koro Pio,” the man said, his white beard shaking with fury.

10m ago

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.

The Long March but Short Flight

A section of former Awami League supporters, who consider themselves free thinkers, progressives, etc. and who also joined the students in demanding resignation of Hasina, have now decided to open a new political party, the Afsos League.

All international indexes are conspiracies: Minister

Chapasthan has landed at the bottom of yet another international index, but the country’s top officials, like every other time, are not convinced by the report. 

3y ago

Bombshell reporting shows rich and powerful are corrupt, and nobody cares

The Investigative Consortium of International Journalists (ICIJ) recently shocked other journalists by revealing that powerful politicians and top executives around the world have been hiding their money away in offshore shell companies.  

3y ago

Facebook’s global outage creates new poor: The influencer class

Facebook’s global outage has created a new kind of poor, the influencer class. 

3y ago

FB, Insta, Whatsapp crashed because they don’t pay VAT: Minister

Misinformation Minister ATM Meghla Banik claimed on Wednesday that Facebook crashed because they don’t pay VAT on time, or at all.

3y ago

Burnout generation result of social media becoming extension of workplace: Therapists

In a TimeLess Magazine article titled “Minds Turned to Ash” published nearly four years ago, columnist John Cohen explores the global case of burnout.

3y ago

Abandon literature, history books and embrace start-up hustle: CEO

A world-renowned CEO on Tuesday called on world leaders to abandon literature and history books in schools and colleges in favour of teaching start-up operations, technological innovations, and general profiteering. 

3y ago

Don’t love me: Pitch

The controversial Merepoor Pitch arrived outside the gates of Intergalactic Cricket Council’s (IgCC’s) prison the day before yesterday.   

3y ago

Destroy the E-cigarette market, says chief wealth officer

In a recent announcement the Ministry of Wealthfare announced that they were going to come down hard with a ban on e-cigarettes. This was in conjunction with their plans to create a tobacco-free country by 2099.

3y ago

E eager to distance itself from commerce in Bangladesh

The English letter, E, has been traumatised -- much like humans -- by its association with internet commerce in Bangladesh.  

3y ago

Research finds proof of male students’ existence despite continuous absence on news

“Every day, before going to my office, I drop my son off at his school. But I have never seen a male student on the news or newspapers, let alone my son. Does my son really go to school?,” a father of a class 5 student asked. 

3y ago