Love

Butterflies or blindness? Decoding love at first sight

We all know those meet-cutes: All it took was one gaze across a jam-packed event or restaurant and within seconds, they knew they had found “the one.” Of course, that sounds wonderful. After all, it is the subject of countless romantic books and movies. But, do people truly fall in love at first sight or is it an imaginary tale?

BOOK REVIEW: POETRY / About romances ever-appealing

Irrespective of the ambivalence that marks Metaphysical poetry of the 17th century, Selim marvels us with his choice of words and precision of utterance.

POETRY / I've seen love

I've seen love/ Rolling down from a mother's eyes/ As she picks her lean child, bathed in innocent blood

#Perspective / The science behind love: A biological ballet, an endocrine euphony

It often elicits an unexplainable sensation — the most enigmatic force that has influenced centuries of philosophical discourse, poetry, and literature. However, in reality, love can be understood through scientific means.

‘Will you be my Valentine?’ and other expensive offers

In the end, love is a personal matter and it should remain so, regardless of how it comes out on February 14 and in the days that follow.

Have we outgrown emotional intimacy?

An almost unavoidable part of discussing relationships in today’s world would be Gen Z's relationship terminology

Celebrating Galentine’s Day on a budget

The spirit of Valentine's Day isn't just reserved for romantic partners – it's also about cherishing all forms of love, including platonic love.

BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Girlfriends, girlhood and everything else Dolly Alderton knows about love

Review of "Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir" (Penguin, 2018)

POETRY / Love is a law

For once, can love look like a Sunday morning; filled with warmth, calmness and motionless?

February 17, 2016
February 17, 2016

Love, rage, silence: Secret lives of Afghan female poets

With her kohl-rimmed eyes cast down, Nadia lilts through a folk couplet before a secret assembly of women poets on a forbidden subject that often gets people killed in Afghanistan -- love.

February 14, 2016
February 14, 2016

5 ways you can show your Valentine’s Day love through tech

If you accept the axiom “opposites attract” then it stands to reason that, often, one person in a relationship is the technophile while the other is the technophobe.

June 1, 2015
June 1, 2015

Man to die for killing Barisal University girl

A Barisal court has handed down death penalty to a man convicted of killing a first year Barisal University student back in 2013.

March 23, 2015
March 23, 2015

Asia's deadly secret: The scourge of the betel nut

Betel nut, used by almost a tenth of the world's population, not only gives people a buzz equivalent to six cups of coffee and is used variously as a symbol of love, marriage and a cure for indigestion and impotence but also leads tens of thousands to an early grave

February 13, 2015
February 13, 2015

MOMENT OF SURRENDER

Valentine's Day has as much to do with love as the Easter Bunny has with resurrection.

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