childhood
POETRY / A building, a tree, and a kid
Buckets of water I pour on my head; my vision gets blurry./ "The blurrier, the merrier", my mother said.
A way to finance childhood growth
Too poor to affect grain prices in global markets, the chronically hungry are economically invisible.
How to come to terms with letting go of your childhood dreams
This guide seeks to offer a direction to navigate the harsh reality of letting go of your childhood dreams.
Cement Swans
On moonlit nights when the perfume of the roses thickened the air, I was in a trance, an ecstasy of body and mind. The beauty of the night has held an allure for me my whole life.
How winter has changed for me over the years
As I regrettably approach adulthood, I can’t help but think that my relationship with winter has changed tenfold.
UNIVERSAL CHILDREN’S DAY / Let the children live their childhood
How reasonable is it to expect children to understand the intricacies of a time-bound commitment they are making with themselves?
PLAYWATCH / Why Old Barbie Movies are Superior
There's more to these movies than just magic.
Kids caught up in chores
As the clock strikes 7:00am, Samira is woken up by her mother. Fighting the sleepiness that still overwhelms her, the fourth grader freshens herself up and puts on her school uniform.
Where have all the flowers gone?
Mass urbanisation takes its toll on Dhaka by erasing the scopes for the young ones to have a healthy childhood. The city is no longer child friendly as it fails to provide the amenities and environmental factors needed for the physical and psychological development of children.
Challenges conquered
In February every year, when his friends bought books from the national book fair and talked excitedly about reading those, he wished he could have done the same. Abul Kalam Azad had lost his vision from a severe attack of typhoid in childhood. But the thought that visually impaired people like him were deprived of all opportunities to enjoy books made him restless.
Drawing strength from a mother's memories
Rebecca had lost her father while an infant and witnessed how her mother had struggled to give her a beautiful childhood despite her step-father's misgivings about bringing her up.