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From Gifted Child to a Mediocre Student
Top of my semi-urban school, I was presumed to be what they call a gifted child; the ones with higher than average IQ (though in my case it was mostly memorisation skills and a knack for math). Scoring a GPA-5…
My Precious Days in Kashmir: The Paradise of The Earth
“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift, given randomly”- And the Mountains Echoed (Khaled Hosseini)  Suddenly, I  thought about escaping from the clamor, hustle, and cacophony of my mundane city life into the warm, wildering heavens. As the clock kept ticking…
Finding A Sense Of Belonging In America As A Bangladeshi
For Uncle T  My master's program is related to education. A lot of what I study and its practices emphasize creating a sense of belonging in the classroom so that students, regardless of their culture, home situation, residential status, trauma,…
Putting Love First Doesn’t Always Work
We’ve all been there. At some point of our lives, we’ve given into love, or what felt like love at the time. Be that skipping a work meeting because your partner had that one day off, creating a fiasco at…
A Brown Odyssey
For the longest time I had this question brewing like a storm in the farthest corner of my mind – Why are we, as brown people, so hostile to the colour ‘brown’? Why do we feel the need to overstep…
Fighting The Superbugs: Awareness & Precautions Against Antimicrobial Resistance
Growing up, I suffered from frequent colds and flu, requiring on-and-off visits to a nearby Child Specialist. Almost every time, the doctor prescribed me an antibiotic named Azithromcin-500 mg twice a day for three days; if I did not recover,…
The Two-Tiered Nature of Beauty Standards
Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor busting the myth of “Celebrity Perfectionism” on Buzzfeed in 2016 impressively stirred us up as the trendy topic then. Casually talking about having dark circles, scars, cellulite, body hair, etc. I don't remember anyone normalizing it…
The Added Challenges of Women in Engineering
Women in Bangladesh go through multiple hardships while building a career because of the remnants of a back-dated ideology. Although many families invest in their daughters' education; the conservative and patriarchal viewpoints often restrict them from building a career in…
My First Week of Culture Shocks
When you move to a new country, the culture shocks are startling. In fact, they sneak up on you unnoticed. No matter how well you prepare or how many lessons you receive about the change in environment, it may never…
Death of A Star
I had this painfully short-lived desire to be a singer when I was young. My father even had this sweet lady come to our house and give me music lessons for a few months. As time went by, my teacher…