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THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE FROM NEW AGE

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Will the real Himu please stand up? Mahfuz Sadique goes looking for Humayun Ahmed’s fabled hero of fiction... Death knell for Dhaliwood Tahmina Shafique and Adnan Khandker chart the rise of made-for-TV cinema and how it is becoming the industry where original ideas and artistry in film-making are slowly making space for themselves as Dhaliwood writhes in its final death throes... 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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