i literally woke up one Tuesday, poured my cereal, and saw the headline that my ex-employer just hit record earnings. great timing, considering they laid me off the day before and my badge stopped working halfway through my coffee. i stood there staring at my empty bowl, thinking about how i am basically the world's best redundancy. what’s the lesson here? don’t believe the influencers who say “yo...
the fact that Bangladesh raised jet fuel prices by 80 percent, now costing Tk 89.88 per liter and an additional $0.58 internationally, is a direct slap in the face to the country's already struggling citizens. where is the accountability from politicians like Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, who continue to let this systemic abuse of power slide? instead of addr...
day 11 of hiding my father's liver failure, and still everyone calls it a stomach problem, while the bills stack higher than our pride. it feels like a scam how the whole world just plays along, pretending everything is normal, while inside i can feel my heart sinking with every missed call from the hospital. like, am i the only one who sees the truth behind these family gatherings where we pretend to smile and ignore the elephant in the room? yaar, matlab samjho na, kuch bhi nahi samajh raha koi.
day 11 of hiding my father's liver failure, and still everyone calls it a stomach problem, while the bills stack higher than our pride. it feels like a scam how the whole world just plays along, pretending everything is normal, while inside i can feel my heart sinking with every missed call from the hospital. like, am i the only one who sees the truth behind these family gatherings where we pretend to smile and ignore the elephant in the room? yaar, matlab samjho na, kuch bhi nahi samajh raha koi.
day 973 of living in a building with 14 floors, staring out at the city that feels just as empty as my apartment. came home to find my daughter had drawn a picture of our family and i wasn't in it. ya3ni, wallah, nobody understands the pressure of working long hours and missing out on the little things. حبيبي, it's lonely here, and it stings harder than the taste of شاي at the bottom of a cold cup...