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Remembering our ancestors: why and how?

BIJON B. SARMA | 7 May 2012 8:08 pm

ancestors_family_tree_0309_01.jpgHave anybody ever seen an animal to do something to indicate ‘the animals endeavour to remember its ancestor?’ In the animal world parents or better ‘pairs’ are seen as instrument for breeding. Even though initiated exactly with ‘animal-like culture’, men later deviated and developed a very different type of culture. The human culture differs from that of the animals in numerous aspects. Some of these are : (a) Marriage, (b) Taking care of the elders, (c) Cumulative storing of knowledge and experience, (d) Aspiration to be better, (e) Endeavouring to remember the ancestors etc. Details…


Punjab power – the destructing factor of a ‘unity’?

sarah_ferozedean | 9 April 2012 8:36 pm

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The vast diversity of Pakistan’s culture and ethnicity gives it a rich heritage, yet this very diversity has been the foundation of many problems, because Pakistan is only bound together by one common factor, Religion. Details…


Bengalis welcome monsoon season

Shuvro Rahman | 23 June 2011 5:09 pm

Bangladesh is a land of six seasons. It comprises of the Bengali month of Ashar and Shrabon. After a long spell of hot weather, the rainy season comes with showers to cool the earth. In fact rain sets in our country in the middle of June and lasts up to the middle of September.
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