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07/07/2016

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21/06/2016

IMPORTANT!

Hi!

There are three pieces of information we want you to know.

A. Contributors, save your articles as "Pending Review" in your respective dashboards. We have encountered cases where "Drafts" stored complete articles and writers complained why their article was not reviewed. Therefore, if the complete article is not saved as "Pending Review", we will not review articles.

B. We have changed our categories. While we do host our previous categories like "Lifestyle", "Bangladesh News", etc, we encourage writers to follow the new categories when they assign their articles. If you are confused as o what the new categories mean, just go to our website, view the category pages and read the description. If you are unsure still, leave the categories blank and we shall fill it up for you.

C. If you are interested to attach pictures to your article, please mail the pictures, citing the title of your article and your contributor/user name at [email protected]. Please do make sure that the in-text pictures are not less than 800x600 in resolution. The feature picture has to be beyond 1200x800.

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07/06/2016

"When asked the difference between fashion houses and hawker markets, Md. Abdullah, a seller in Dhaka College’s Hawker Market, replied 'It’s almost the same but for the cooled air, you have to pay more.'"

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06/06/2016

"The given list compiles 8 cities scattered across the globe, and trust me when I say this, ALL of them are worth visiting at least once, in a lifetime."

There are times when a retreat from the manic hubbub of city life is not just a need, but a silent, relentless craving of a body and soul deprived of tranquility. Getaways from the bizarre, …

04/06/2016

"Dhaka has embraced the world of cuisines more openly than ever. In contrast to the traditional eateries, what has emerged are more restaurants serving “authentic” cuisines such as Italian, Arabian, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Mexican, Greek, Indonesian, Thai, American, Portuguese, Mughal, French etc. The restaurant business has not only diversified significantly but has become increasingly competitive."

“A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.” – Willa Cather, ‘Death Comes for …

03/06/2016

"Student researches are turning into one of those inexplicable phenomenon that everyone considers to be important but not important enough for students to immerse themselves into it. Hence, you find teachers and institutions not facilitating proper academic research."

Conducting an academic research is a highly skillful thing to do. It is a test of capabilities and focus that finally culminates into a paper worth publishing in the academic journals. From scientists to teachers, everyone with …

03/06/2016

"To tell you the truth, I was once asked to get a life by a girl, and so I did. Thanks to her, I guess."

“Naur” sounds like a very familiar word, yet its meaning and enigma manages to slip away somehow, just when you are about to grasp it. What does it mean? What does it represent? Dhaka Insider …

02/06/2016

"A walk around the forest would tell you it isn’t similar to all other mangroves. It didn’t have roots positioned outwards, or the mud splashing everywhere with every step. The forest itself didn’t have the dense grim silence that you would imagine. Instead, you could hear the waves crashing on the roots of trees at the end of forest. You could also, spend hours battling nettles and straining your ears to locate birdsongs – typical forest stuff. Along with these, you would also find some evidences of human existence. Broken bottles, packets- the regular trashes that seem to have followed me all the way from Dhaka."

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