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Zawad Arif Arian

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Zawad Arif Arian

    The ultimate guide to daily caffeine limits and timing (opens the original)

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    Juggling coffee, tea, and soda throughout the day makes tracking milligrams nearly impossible. Knowing your exact limits and setting a firm afternoon cutoff can completely transform your daily energy levels. For many of us, the day starts with a cup of coffee and runs on a few more. A cup of tea at 11 AM, a cola with lunch, and an espresso before the evening meeting. The milligrams add up faster than we realise. Chowdhury Tasneem Hasin, Chief Clinical Dietitian and Head of the Dietetics and Nutr

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Zawad Arif Arian

    Meet Shafi: The blind comedian changing how Dhaka laughs (opens the original)

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    Shafayat-e-Rabbi Wazed doesn't ask audiences to feel sorry for him. Instead, the Dhaka-based corporate professional and stand-up comedian invites them to laugh at the exact things people usually try to ignore. "I love my insensitive jokes," he says. And it is not an apology. His comedy starts with his friends. There are four of them, and the way they speak to each other would alarm an outsider. Nothing is off-limits, and nobody takes offence. According to him, that is how you find out who shares

  3. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Zawad Arif Arian

    The untold stories of bagh bidhobas, tiger widows of the Sunderbans (opens the original)

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    They lost their husbands to tigers of the Sundarbans. For the women known as bagh bidhobas or tiger widows, losing a husband to the forest is only the beginning of a life shaped by poverty, isolation and a stigma their communities still struggle to understand. I went to Shyamnagar to count things. Household income. Landholding. How far the salt had crept up the tube wells. How many months of the year a family sits down to two meals instead of three. We had a questionnaire, a schedule, and three

  4. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Zawad Arif Arian

    Can digital closeness ever replace actually being together? (opens the original)

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    From midnight group chats to Friday video calls and memes that double as welfare checks, people are finding new ways to remain present in one another’s lives. But as we grow up on each other’s screens, is digital closeness really enough? The majority of the people I care about now communicate with me by phone. My sister is abroad. My closest friends live in three different countries. Every evening, a call goes from Dhaka to Jeddah, where my grandmother and uncle speak simultaneously, sit in the

  5. Article · Aug 10, 2026 · Zawad Arif Arian

    Inside KHAR X: A first-timer at Bangladesh's cage-fighting night (opens the original)

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    Two weeks after the World Cup final, I was still refreshing old match clips at 2 AM waiting for the withdrawal to lift. It did not. Then an Instagram reel interrupted my scroll: fighters trading punches inside a cage, a caption promising KHAR X at FDC on 31 July. I tapped through without knowing what KHAR meant. By the fifth reel, I had the shape of it. KHAR held its first event in May 2025, founded by Chairperson Mohammad Maaz, Managing Director Sadat Kabir Rudro, and CEO Shouvik Ahmed. Rudro,

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