In comparison to the capital, Chittagong was quite a ‘conservative’ city for many a year as far as the modern idea or trend of glamour, beauty and fashion were concerned. And nowadays, Chittagong is not much behind the capital in those terms.
A remarkable change has started, slowly but steadily, in recent years to grip the [...]

Toni Morrison’s ‘musically titled book Jazz is lovely, lyrical, searching and touching,’ her ‘most experimental’ sixth out of eight novels, about ‘lived reality of the people’, in the context of the ‘musical movement’ and forms the second part of Morrison’s Dantesque trilogy on African American history, beginning with Beloved 1987and ending with Paradise 1999
The novel [...]

IT is not something most dads plan for. “When she first started, I was a bit wary,” admits Rhian Sugden’s father Steve. “But I’m happy for her. Loads of money and famous. Not many people can say that.”
Manchester glamour girl Rhian was an overnight success in a ruthless business that rejects thousands of eager wannabes. [...]

The country’s local sanitary napkin industry has grown fast in the past 15 years, as consumers are increasingly getting locally made products at competitive prices.
Industry experts estimate the existing market size of the product at around Tk 25 crore, with around 20 local brands available in the market now.
The local brands [...]

Two Bangladeshi girls born and raised in London agree to allow their parents to choose their husbands for them.
The elder, Sahanara, quick-witted, coarse-mannered and the rebel of the family, banished from the family in her teens for being “too Western”, has to swap her pink hot pants for a sari as she goes off to [...]

Investment in women and girls is women’s empowerment
Barrister Harun ur Rashid

Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain

Women are grossly discriminated against men in male-dominated society. They are discriminated in every sphere of public and private life by men. In developed countries, women also suffer from unequal wage and there is a “glass-ceiling “in corporate bodies that does not [...]

Teenage girls who dress in their culture’s traditional clothing may fare better mentally and emotionally than their peers who try to assimilate, a study suggests.
The study, which followed Bangladeshi and white students in 28 London schools, found that Bangladeshi girls who dressed in traditional garb scored better on a measure of mental well-being than those [...]