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Well, things are happening in Dhaka too. The parliament, supposedly a deliberative body, sliced our capital of forty years in less than one fourth of forty minutes. What a tremendous feat! Details…
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Well, things are happening in Dhaka too. The parliament, supposedly a deliberative body, sliced our capital of forty years in less than one fourth of forty minutes. What a tremendous feat! Details…
Travelling along the river beside the villages of the Sundarbans, the beauty of the forest is truly amazing. Sunlight glistening over the water, the sound of the waves, the sights and sounds of various birds and the endless green forest brings a sense of serenity. But as the boatmen mention, the area was much more serene, the forest was far more endless. Details…
Although their ascendency to power was largely paved either by matrimony or by genetic make up – the matter of fact still remains germane that they, as of today, remain the sole arbiters of power in Bangladesh. Like her predecessor, the sitting Prime Minister, rightly or wrongly, wields unfettered muscle even beyond her constitutional ambit. I am uncertain of her ability, but if desired, she has the opportunity to undo even the most difficult of the Gordian knots. Details…
Sam is a university-educated guy of 25 years. He is living in Dhaka and works as a university teacher. Six years ago, after graduating from college at the age of 19, he discovered that his sexual orientation deviates from the cultural norm in Bangladesh. Today he is in a romantic relationship with a man. Details…
Dhaka, Nov 21 (bdnews24.com)—A youth from Jhalakathi’s Indrapasha has been missing for one and a half years, since after he had narrated to journalists tortures he had allegedly faced in the custody of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). Details…
The heading of this write up is a borrowed quote from Mark Twain, the witty guy with a big mustache. I work in a little town on the mighty Mississippi - Hannibal, Missouri where Mark Twain lived his childhood days! Whenever, I visit downtown for a little coffee or anything else, on the hill, I see the Mark Twain Boyhood Museum and I think of this quote. Details…
Barguna, Nov 18 (bdnews24.com) — Primary school heads Shawkat Ali Hiron, divorced at his wedding, and his aunt Tahmina Khanam have been suspended for allegedly demanding dowry from bride Farzana Yasmin’s family.
Kalaparha primary and mass education officer Ruhul Amin on Friday said Patuakhali primary and mass education officer Abdul Kader ordered the suspension taking retroactive effect from Nov 15. Details…
A few months ago, I was on a motorcycle trip from my hometown in Germany to Cape Town in South Africa. While passing through the East African country of Tanzania, I encountered a packed bus, presumably on the way to Dar es Salaam. The bus had just passed me at considerable speed when I see a group of young goats at a distance of a few hundred meters slowly crossing the highway. Details…
Levitating aimlessly in a minutest fraction of a vacuum fluctuation, as we reach down to the everlasting presence of a cold and cruel cosmos, we are reduced to nothing but a bunch of frightened minstrels endlessly groping for a way out or for a way up. Details…
It was one of those extraordinarily hectic weeks for me in Kathmandu with the newly arrived Indian Ambassador K. V. Rajan coming on a courtesy call at the Bangladesh House. At the time I was privileged to have been serving as the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in Nepal. Details…
Syed Muhammad Hussain on Equality first