Shout | The Daily Star

Published November 14, 2013

#HASHTAG Your Way into #RELEVANCE

Maliha Mohsin

#Hashtag your heart out because I'm pretty sure nobody's watching. So what's to lose? With millions of tweets, status updates, shares, uploads, tags and what not cluttering the internet every day, it's very easy for your one #hashtag of something completely unimportant to be lost, as surprising as it may sound to you. Yes, why wouldn't someone care for your #fish?!? It could change the world, it could start a revolution, and it could be a source of some sparking interest ...

WATER WORLD

Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is one of the most populous cities in the world. The unexpectedly growing population has crippled the city's capabilities to cope with the changing situations as there are severe resource constraints and mismanagement. Among its many problems, water logging is the worst that the city has been facing during monsoon (May to October). The city is protected from river flooding by an encircling dike. During the monsoon the water level in the rivers mostly remains ...

Winter in Tangua

Winter is coming, and already the tiny wagtails are doing their curious acrobatic shows along the riverbanks. In another month the haors and beels will be swamped by ducks that have flown thousands of miles, past unforgiving winter snows and rifle scopes. Now is the time to camp out, by the steely waters of Tanguar Haor. But camping out is often not the rosy affair that Enid Blyton books have made ...

Tasting CHINESE FOOD with Alison Gold

Growing up, we have all been to the Bangladeshi renditions of “Chinese” restaurants, haven't we? The aromatic food, the dimmed lights, the soothing sound in the background, and a TV at the corner that pretty ...

Daft Punk: Random Access Memories

I must admit that I wasn't a huge fan of Daft Punk before I got introduced to the track, “Giorgio by Moroder”. It was a frigging interview of one of the pioneers of electronic music, ...

SOCIAL MEDIA PRIVACY You Have None

Between Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Ask.fm, you have absolutely ZERO privacy. You got your daily food pictures at Instagram: #nofilter #cheezburger; your toilet flush isn't working -- a Twitter #3rdworldproblem; and someone is asking how much you weigh on Ask.fm. All of that gets posted on your Facebook and voila! Sherlock says you have diarrhoea. That's merely a small example of the amount of information that your potential stalker can ...

Manna Dey: The Graceful Voice of Bangla Gaan

Zeenath Sultana Mitu of DU has been singing Manna Dey ever since her childhood train rides with her father, long before she heard the name of the man. Just look at the talent hunt programmes ...

The Aga Khan School, Dhaka Celebrates Its Silver Jubilee

Students, parents, teachers and staff of The Aga Khan School, Dhaka are taking great pride in celebrating 25 years of educational excellence in Bangladesh this year. The school was established in 1988 with only 25 ...

The Rum Diary

First off, I loved the movie and I found it horribly underrated. It was a beautiful film and hilarious to boot, and the ratings do not do it justice. But to be fair, I can ...

IT BEGINS!

The Unmad-JCC Comic Con Dhaka 2013 should open its gates to the fans today! The organisers told SHOUT, the official print media partner, that fans who could not find tickets yet should not panic. There ...

THE WOLF AMONG US

Expectations were really high from Telltale after their groundbreaking game The Walking Dead, released last year. This year Telltale has brought another comic book adaptation and they have not disappointed. The Wolf Among Us is based ...

INSANITY

A man stood in a white room. He was bound in a straitjacket, also white. He had stood there like that for the last 14 days. What is insanity? Maybe learned men and women have defined ...

Seminar at Daffodil International University

Department of Natural Science of Daffodil International University (DIU) organised a seminar, titled “Gender Mainstreaming in the Development Process of Bangladesh in Government Perspective” on November 9, 2013 at DIU Virtual Centre. Abdul Jalil, Senior ...