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Published November 28, 2013

MARRIAGE MATERIAL

Inma Sumaita Rahman & Zoheb Mashiur

Illustration: Fahim Anzoom Whether you are the patro or the patri, prepare for THE examination of your life. In any other part of the world, you know things are getting pretty serious when you get to meet the parents of your significant other. But being in Bangladesh, sometimes we jumble things up and meet the parents before meeting our significant other, just for fun. Yes, we're referring to arranged marriages. The incredibly smart initiative we take for a better life by letting ...

RISKY Business

Ferdous Tasni

There are more than 25 dockyards on the other side of the river Buriganga where ships, launches, and steamers of various sizes and shapes are built and repaired round the clock. About 10,000 workers, many of them children and adolescents, who work in these dockyards, earn Tk 250-280 (app. $4) every day. Most of the work done here are fully manual. The conditions they work in are often hazardous. According to standard safety regulations, all welders must wear protective gear ...

Pacific Rim

Pros: You can leave your brains home; no awkward PG-18 scenes for parents and kids; girlfriend will approve because of no Megan Fox drama. Cons: Mediocre/awful acting; pink-loving girlfriend might hate it because boyfriend's attention will be completely devoted to the machines; no Megan Fox drama. I learned about “Pacific Rim” before its release from the uncontrollable excitement of the geeks around me. This was one of the biggest summer releases of the year ...

Let Bygones Be Bygones: The Sunk Cost Fallacy

A couple waited months for a movie to be released. They absorbed the pre-launch media coverage to the brink. They stood in a long queue to get expensive tickets for the first show. Finally, ...

SPLINTER CELL BLACKLIST

After playing Splinter Cell: Conviction, we all missed the classic Splinter Cell gameplay and Blacklist manages to deliver exactly that. Its more action-oriented predecessor almost made us Fisher fans lose hope for the series' integrity. ...

A Critical Analysis of John Cena

We have all come to know about John Cena whether we watch pro-wrestling or not. He is certainly the face of the company and there is no chance of that changing anytime soo. The last conference call where Vince McMahon informed the WWE's shareholders about the poor buy-rates of Summerslam -- the second biggest PPV of the year, after Wrestlemania -- underlined a problem that WWE has failed to address ...

EXTREME WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY

A wedding is an auspicious event for both the bride and the groom, as they knot their lives together for as long as they live from there on (or until they get divorced and part ...

The Jukebox at BRAC University

BRAC University Cultural Club arranged 'The Jukebox' -- formerly known as 'The Music Grunge' -- on November 22 and 23, 2013 with a view to raise funds for the underprivileged of the university. A symphonised ...

School Toilets: Concentration Camps?

"Miss, can I go to the bathroom?" "It's eight in the morning, you can go back to your seat." Schools. They're institutions which sometimes feel like they can control almost every aspect of your life. Needing permission ...

Pressing that button might hurt you

I'm cereal (typo and it stays), apparently, when you do a lot of button pressing, you can hurt yourself. In general, this type of injury is placed under the broad term RSI (repetitive strain injury). ...

Leona

Hey, baby girl. When you were born, I was seven. I wore a maroon plaid skirt and an off-white turtle neck. I had my short hair tied in pigtails. More significantly, I wore a gigantic ...

INTERNET TREASURES

“Turn your mood into music,” that's what Stereomood.com's motto is. It's a wonderful website where you just specify your mood and listen to music that reflects your emotions. We searched for “I feel gangsta” and ...

We = Powerful & Powerless

Our country's political situation has pinned humanity to the ground and tied it in shackles. Can you hear humanity trying to break away and the metal of the shackles -- ringing to the cries of ...

UAP Vice Chancellor Participates in ACU Centenary Conference, London

Professor Jamilur Reza Choudhury, Vice Chancellor of University of Asia Pacific (UAP), recently participated in the Centenary Conference of the Association of Commonwealth Universities -- held at the Senate House, University of London. Around 300 ...

The Aga Khan School, Dhaka hosts Grand Meena Bazaar

The Aga Khan Education Service, Bangladesh (AKESB), which operates the Aga Khan School, Dhaka, launched its Silver Jubilee celebrations with a Grand Meena Bazaar held at Bashundhara in the capital on November 22. The event ...

Seven Drops

Seven drops fell last night You're now killing all that pass by, They judge and frown -- were you ever friends? Seven drops fell last night. Redeeming the anger, you clench and smile What's done is done, why'd you even ...

The Ol’ Calculator

Sums rolling through my mind Like a bowling ball rolling I'm forgetting all methods Like bowling pins tumbling. But worry much, I didn't For I relied on ol' calculator The lucky calculator: That served my ancestors before me. Well, at least, I used ...

The Dejected

Like shiny pieces of lego blocks, I was new and alluring I gleamed with a shimmer of bright light. I screamed to be played with. I wanted to be their imagination Wanted to feed them happiness with my plasticity. I ...