‘Dik Theater’ a renowned drama based organization of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) yesterday 18
th August 18, 2015 celebrated its 16
th Anniversary on the campus.
A colorful procession was brought out from in front of the central library at around 12:30pm on the campus as a part of the celebration of its Birth Day. The procession was paraded on the whole campus and ended at the same place where a bir...
A middle-aged pot-smoking apothecary owner; his 18-year-old aspiring hijab fashion designer daughter Charu; his adopted 20-year old daughter/niece Ella who is haunted by the untimely death of her biological parents; and Maya, the daughter of a local Islamic cleric, Charu’s friend and Ella’s love interest. These are the main protagonists in Bright Lines, Bangladeshi-American writer Tanwi Nandini Islam’s debut novel, which is released today.
Bright Lines goes beyond the tired cliché of South Asian characters juxtaposed against their white counterparts. The novel’s South Asian characters, set in 2004 Brooklyn which some time traveling to 1971 Bangladesh, are surrounded by other communities of color and interact with them on a daily basis on the busy streets of New York. The characters i...
Tom Moore, the “Archie” cartoonist who brought to life the escapades of a freckled-face, red-haired character, has died in Texas. He was 86.
Moore, who began drawing cartoons while in the US Navy during the Korean War, died early Monday morning while in hospice care in his hometown of El Paso, his son Lito Bujanda-Moore told The Associated Press on Tuesday. He said his father was diagnosed with throat cancer within the past week and chose not to undergo treatment.
Moore drew Archie Andrews and his friends on and off from 1953 until he retired in the late
The front of Mike Johnson’s office on Perkins Road looks like it belongs to an accountant, which it does. Those who use the back door on Friday afternoons encounter a world apart.
They call it Bangladesh. Any relationship to the country by that name is purely accidental.
Johnson served in the Army Special Forces in the Vietnam War, and about 12 years ago he started
inviting other such veterans to end the work week with drinks, snacks and conversation at his office. If anyone questioned whether it was too early to ...
For 70 years, World War II planes have been resting in peace at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Although divers have enjoyed exploring the underwater graveyard since the 1960s, Brandi Mueller's photos allow us to admire these treasures without a wetsuit.
"I find diving [to see] the airplanes really exciting," Mueller, a scuba diving instructor and boat captain, told Mashable. "It's a strange thing to see airplanes underwater. Shipwrecks you expect, but not airplanes."
The planes didn't actually crash at this particular location near the Marshall Islands, though. They were discarded there after WWII because it was too expensive to transport them back to the United States from the Kwajalein Atoll, according to Mueller.
The site includes Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers, F4U Co...
After working for about ten years in the telco industry, Nazmul Sheik, co-founder of Shajgoj, was eager for a fresh challenge. At the time he was stationed in Nigeria as a consultant with MTN, Africa’s largest telecommunications provider, and earned a decent salary. Despite a fairly luxurious lifestyle and strong career growth prospects, Sheik felt his job was boring and mundane. His home country of Bangladesh was experiencing a spurt of economic growth and Sheik was convinced there were opportunities waiting for him. He soon quit his job to move back home.
