Popular Bangladeshi actor Pori Moni has been included in Forbes Asia magazine's '100 Digital Stars' list
Guru Dutt (1925 - 1964) : Unsung Auteur, Resurrected Genius
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Why we sleep and dream?
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Bangladeshi Women Fight Back Patriarchal Backlash: Need For Regional Solidarity Stressed
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Yoga in the Pacific: A Nautical Saga of Two Indian Navy Veterans, #AndhraPradeshyoga, #Telugus
The cceans, comprising 70 percent of the surface of planet earth, are a medium of connecting peoples across the world, rather than at times mistakenly being viewed as great natural barriers. Nothing proves this more emphatically than the tiny Tystie's passage across the Indo-Pacific which is aptly relevant to this year's theme for the International Day of Yoga - 'Yoga for One Earth One Health'.
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