The people keeping puppet tradition alive

Mustafa Monwar died on the morning of 29 June 2026 at Square Hospital in Dhaka. He was 90, and pneumonia had been wearing him down for a while. People called him the Puppet Man, which undersells what he actually did, he took puppetry off the village fairground. He put it...

How lifestyle chains are capturing consumers

Mr Mahmudur Rahman loves to spend less time shopping and buying daily necessities without the stress of bargaining. He is 32 and spends a lot of his time at workstations and in traffic, so saving time and effort, retail chains become convenient for him. The retail landscape in Bangladesh has...