Today's SLR is all about accomplishing what you have set your heart on. We meet Bangladeshi author Saad Z. Hossain whose debut novel was recently released in USA. Intrepid traveller and entrepreneur Sabrina Islam decides to tick off an item on her bucket list and travel to Kerala. One channels the frantic energy of Dhaka into a madcap novel. The other makes a beeline for quieter backwaters to come face to face with herself. Both remind us: "the only journey is the one within." (Rainer Maria Rilke)

MUNIZE MANZUR