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Fidel Castro: Life is truer than death by Azfar Hussain Learning is child’s play Tahmina Shafique reveals how a new study that advocates the use of rudimentary toys to offset nutritional learning impairments among children, is working its way through the country’s childhood education programmes, affirming what local specialists have been claiming for years... Daughter of A Golden Age Mahfuz Sadique talks to Tahmima Anam, whose upcoming novel A Golden Age, set against the backdrop of Bangladesh’s War of Independence, is making headlines in the literary press across continents... Old wives' tales Is it really a bad omen if a dog howls at night? Do men and women whose glances meet really carry away a bit of each other’s souls? If milk boils over, is it really bad luck? Rubaiyat Khan and Sanam Amin consult scientists and doctors to separate the science from the superstition in the numerous old wives’ tales that our grandmothers tell us to abide by...

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