Seasons change, and so do life’s phases
Weekend Plus Desk :Seasons change; the old leaves shed and the new ones crop up; winter gives way to spring and spring to summer and...
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‘Longest’ hanging bridge in Switzerland, overlooking the Alps, will take your breath away
Weekend Plus Desk :Switzerland is known for many things, from snow-capped mountains to Swiss chocolates, there is no dearth of reasons why one must visit...
Monsoon Recipes: PENNE ARRABIATTA
Ingredients250g – Borges Penne Rigate /Fusilli Pasta2 tbsp – Borges Pure Olive Oil1 – Onion, chopped2 – Garlic cloves, chopped1/2 cup – Tomatoes, chopped1/2 –...
Monsoon Recipes: PANEER 65 QUESADILLA
Ingredients70g – Cottage cheese3g – Mustard seeds8 – Curry leaves1 tbsp – Vegetable oil1 medium – Onion chopped4 cloves – Garlic chopped1 – Ginger chopped1...
Monsoon Recipes: TOM YOM KAI SOUP
Ingredients1 tbsp – Oil1 tsp – Tom Yom paste2 – Button mushrooms20g – Brocolli15g – Carrot5g – Lemon grass5g – Galangal15g – Baby corn2 cup...
Smartphones are rendering teenagers lonely and distressed
Weekend Plus Desk :Teenagers in the US today are working less, having less sex and are far less happy than previous generations because of increased...
Book Review: Chetonay Bayanno
Edited by Abul Hasan Muhammad SadeqChetonay Bayanno (’52 in Spirit). Edited by Abul Hasan Muhammad Sadeq. Published by Kothamala Prokashoni, H. 14. R. 28. Sector...
POEM: A thunderous voice of the volcano
-Milon Sabysachee The bloody walls of the House No 32 witnessthe deaths aroundcalling the cold-door-bell with endless mourn! That the mourned stairs with streaming bloodrolls...
POEM: You got no exit
-Arif Moinuddin It’s raining cats and dogs!It’s the beginning of the month of August! Who says, it’s raining?It’s the rain of mourned tears!The cloud shed...
Poet, journalist Sikander Abu Zafar
Golam Kibria Pinu :Sikander Abu Zafar (1919-1975), litterateur and journalist, was born at Tentulia in Satkhira (greater Khulna) on 19 March 1919 where his grandfather...
Scholar, translator Girish Chandra Sen
Sambaru Chandra Mohanta :Girish Chandra Sen (1835-1910) religious scholar and translator, who made the first creditable and full translation of the Holy Quran into Bangla,...
Memories of Bangabandhu
Kazi Liakat Hossain :It was in the year 1969 when Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was released from so-called Agartala Conspiracy Case. It was like a...