satire
#Perspective / The salon visits before Eid: A hilariously tragic tale
Although this tends to happen in almost every salon visit, the festive season brings out the best of their rather unconventional selling methods.
Satire / Guy sells ancestral property to afford restaurant’s iftar platter
Man sells ancestral property to afford an iftar platter at a high-end restaurant.
Satire / Student demands extra credits for being single on Valentine's Day
Rahul Aman, a frustrated Engineering student, believes that universities need to offer emotional compensation in the form of extra credits, a sentiment shared by most others in their department.
A day in the life of a social butterfly!
Another winter, another dozen weddings to attend. The pomp and circumstance surrounding a wedding is on steroids these days in Dhaka and you are here for it! Having secured your invitation to the most extravagant ones of the season, your outfits have been sorted, each more extravagant than the last.
Satire / Guy freezing in Dhaka winter aspires to pursue higher studies in Canada
Like hundreds of his fellow escapists, Shadman Sakib also dreams of moving to Canada for higher studies and hopes that education will somehow magically work out for him in Manitoba.
Satire / Faculty member shocked to realise that a high CGPA doesn’t make him a good teacher
While good grades are a reasonable basis for the primary evaluation of a candidate’s capabilities, it doesn’t seem to automatically translate into adequate teaching skills.
Satire / How to force yourself to have fun on New Year's Eve
SATIRE: The first step to having fun on December 31 is to manage a BBQ party invite at some over-enthusiastic friend’s rooftop.
Satire / Friends of BBA student tired of filling up Google Forms
What’s more difficult than being a BBA student? Being friends with one.
ESSAY / We still dream of the things that Sultana dreamed of
As long as the problems addressed in Sultana’s Dream continue to exist and be relevant, we must uphold Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s work, values, and ideologies
When all else fails, satirise
This week, the Daily Star Books compiles a list of satirical fiction for our readers to feast on. In sociopolitical climates rife with crackdowns and censorship, satire takes on the burden of giving a voice to matters that cannot be spoken about otherwise.
When political humour lands in troubled waters
More often than not, governments have issues with political humour because they don’t want to be called out for their incompetencies.
Satire article: Mayor Taposh threatens to sue The Daily Star
Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh's lawyer Mejbahur Rahman today threatened to file a case against The Daily Star as the newspaper's answer in reply to a legal notice over a satire article was "not fully acceptable"
Studio planning reboot of show that hasn’t been created yet
Studios are running out of unique ideas and are taking drastic measures.
The Devil unable to rent an apartment in Dhaka amidst heatwave
For the occupants of the netherworld, Dhaka has become a rather attractive vacation spot.
Creeps and stalkers consider filing lawsuit due to mental trauma caused by friend request glitch
“The real victims in this tragedy are the ones who didn’t get any friend requests despite the glitch and me,” said Mark.
Man who has never entered kitchen complains about food on Eid
Mr Gordov was saying how his wife's hours of effort in the kitchen in this scorching heat just couldn’t live up to his outrageous expectations as a Bangladeshi male.
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.
Weather forecast department to predict weather based on Wi-Fi turbulence
The weather forecast department has decided to sell all of their expensive equipment and solely rely on the Wi-Fi router in their office to indicate chances of rain.
