Nike’s Kaepernick campaign was a stroke of genius that radiated flashes of fury, admiration, and sarcasm. Kaepernick became one of the most opposing...
In a world that boasts of absolute empathy, humanity, and evolution, little is being done to solve the Rohingya crisis. It has been...
You wear your best black and white outfit, give a Bengali status and visit The Shaheed Minar in this warm weather. But, the...
Every year, the month of December brings out the patriotic spirit among the people of Bangladesh. The green-red flag shows up on the...
We have all been there. Walking through the park for an evening stroll or stuck in gridlock traffic, we occasionally see a group...
Walk through the Financial Thistrict in Manhattan, New York City and you are sure to come across a three-ton bronze bull with a...
Jui Coconut oil, a product of Square Toiletries Ltd has made an amazing campaign about woman empowerment. Through TV commercials, Jui has been...
The color green, the natural movement of wildlife, the music of birds and the gentle tipper tappers of nature; these are the things...
Akib, a 21 year old, comes home from a hectic day at his community college and part time job and logs into Facebook. His newsfeed lights up with so pictures posted by his friends who went to Ivy League colleges and their achievements. He idly scrolls through the rest of his newsfeed filled with similar posts relating to achievements, vacations and relationships and keeps thinking about what the hell is he doing with his life? What did he accomplish compared to his high achieving high school friends? Their posts get an average of 200 likes even if they just post a picture of them sitting in lectures whereas his “employee of the year” achievement post got 17 likes and that too from other “losers” like himself. He goes downstairs to have dinner with his family where his father grills him with questions and ridicules everything he is doing with his life. He leaves the dinner table mentally drained and lays in his bed thinking about everything. He logs into Instragram where all his posts have two hashtags are common #Blessed #GoodDayEveryday and he thinks to himself “Who am I lying to? The world or myself?” All on a sudden he gets an Instagram notification which says his crush shared something on her Instagram and he immediately taps on it. He sees his crush posting a couple picture with a guy with hashtags like #bae #soulmate etc. and he stalks the guy on facebook and Instagram and finds that this guy is everything he could never be, not at least with the current state and pace of his life. The accumulation of everything crushes down on him. All those voices in his head that keeps screaming inside his head are more relentless today than they have ever been. And he doesn’t have anyone to talk to about the voices in his head nor does he want to face another day of this ordinary less than average life. He decides to put an end to his miserable life and end it he does. This is just one story of thousands out there, unknown and lost in outer turmoil of this world. ...
Cultural norms have embedded so deeply within our judgment that their outcomes are beyond second thoughts. Such a tradition, namely – Shidur khela...
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