Rasha Jameel

A Guide to Understanding an Abusive Phenomenon

Is feminism in accordance with the ideologies laid down by its pioneers?

Popular manga, biographies, children’s books, and latest international releases across genres are expected to become available at the store within two weeks of publication.

Read on for a testimony from someone who has OCD.

Feminism is taboo, but the nonsensical alternative terms somehow… aren't.

It's the beginning of a new day in Rom-Com Land, and a twenty-something-year-old woman has just woken up to a lovely morning, completely oblivious of how lucky she is to be waking up to such a view from her apartment window in an expensive city bustling with traffic.

Very basic, hardly exciting, and a slightly-tweaked version of the supernatural drama formula.

Expert pairings so you know exactly what to stack up on before you hit play.

A collection of our freedom's history.

There's nothing in the world that can keep me from obsessing over food.

Since when did we actually see a high school on TV that resembled where we went to as kids?

Are you trying to lose an unrealistic amount of weight? Are you trying to adhere to a problematic standard of beauty? Are you trying to bulk up?

For World Children’s Day on Friday, November 20, Daily Star Books speaks to contemporary and veteran authors, publishers, and readers of children’s literature written in Bangladesh.

Mental health issues have been pivotal aspects in books and cinema for a long time. However, the accuracy with which mental health issues are portrayed is a different story.

When I was a child, every night, I’d ask my parents to tell me a story when they tucked me into bed. From talking trees to scheming foxes, the mystical realm of Bengali folklore was a bottomless well from which my pre-adolescent mind drank with thirst. It led me to what can only be deemed as the Holy Grail of Bengali folklore: Thakurmar Jhuli (1907).

You owe it to yourself to investigate the facts and figures you've consumed all day long.

Here's what baffled me when Netflix's Bulbbul (2020) premiered — people refusing to address the film as a part of the "horror" genre.

I'd written "We stan a quirky kween" on a YouTube video of an Indian-Canadian woman. My friends had opened a Facebook group to advocate for feminism in Bangladesh. Let that sink in.

When I was in 9th grade, a friend introduced me to the works of director Lars von Trier, starting with the film Dogville (2003). I’d never seen a feature film play out so well, in such intensity, with nothing but a largely empty sound stage for a film set.

Online learning has drawn criticism in Bangladesh primarily due to our unfamiliarity surrounding the concept, having never been attempted before in this magnitude.