Naziba Basher

It is very common for one to misconstrue what the ideal 'office life' is. We all quite instinctively think white shirts, blue ties,

International Day of Families just passed by on the 15th of May, and since many of us (guilty as charged) didn't know about

“My father had subscribed to Begum Magazine when I was a little girl. He used to love the fact that the editor and I had the same name,”

The fight we have been fighting, us women, has been a long and tedious one.

Munmun Ahmed is a name familiar to the whole country. Her intricate footwork and enchanting twirls of Kathak can have the whole nation mesmerised.

Child labour is not only horrifyingly prevalent in our society, it is growing, and that is something we should be very, very afraid of.

Kenya is an unquestionably beautiful African country. There is a reason as to why Kenya is the unofficial 'African Safari Central'.

He started off small. But those who do big things in their lives usually do. That's the great thing about 'star' people- they start

Taking a gargantuan amount of responsibilities, keeping a respectable stature, being calm, kind and collected, but have strong

It is merely a dream for many of us, to be able to wear our national emblem proudly on our chests in a foreign land, to sing our national anthem wearing our hearts on our sleeves, and represent our nation with our talents and skills.

When the news of Leela Samson coming to perform in Dhaka, Bangladesh, hit the newspaper stands, in the middle of April, every passionate dancer in the country had butterflies in their stomachs. It was after all, THE Leela Samson. I, just like those other dancers, was on my toes to come face to face with this living legend of a Bharatanatyam dancer.

A first glance at Fahad Al Alam will remind one of a line from The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, because like Estha,

The 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize attracted nearly 4000 entries from 47 countries. Twenty-six “fresh and

Chirag Roy – a conservation biologist, a comrade, a lover of nature, a friend to wildlife; a husband, a son, a brother to many...

Everyday we face problems. Commuting, house help, mishaps in the education system, corruption- these are everyday issues that

The word 'progress' often times becomes a controversial word, amongst both intellectuals and scholars, when the questions of whose progress

In the previous episodes, Khaled Rabbani, one of the youngest contestants, won an apron as he walked in first to the judges. Upon

On March 7, 2016, around mid-afternoon, the news of a strange case reached The Daily Star. Within an hour, televisions and social

Opportunities are treasured. Opportunities come by at random, at their will and wish. Our task is to recognise them and use them to

“I grew up in a place where we had more trees than houses, more birds than people and more ponds than tanks! Each pond would