With the boom in the number of television channels and newspapers, journalism has become an attractive career choice for both men and women. For women however, there are extra challenges in the profession that are exclusive to their gender. Despite…
I was sitting on a bench by a small pond. It was a chilly spring day, unseasonably so for a New England April, but sunny. There were daffodils and ducks, and a young mother with her fearless toddler, who insisted…
Will Abdul Hamid, the newly elected president, be able to make a difference? Or will he only act according to the advice of the Prime Minister which his predecessors did in the past, especially when the nation went through a…
The month of April is passing by. It has found literary distinction by being the first word of a much loved poem The Waste Land by T S Eliot. English poetry lovers would readily give in to its poetical enchantment…
Last Friday’s issue titled ‘Ominous Signs’ was really a very interesting read. The cover illustration itself was quite unique and eye-catching. But the stories inside left me feeling very ashamed and unsettled. Although we know about these terrible incidents we…
It is strange that people will do anything for attention. Which is why we have those bizarre Guinness World Records of individual’s with the longest nails, most hair on their face or the ability to eat a thousand roshogollas in…
“Archaeology gives authenticity to history,” says Mutasim Billah Nasir, a student of the 39th batch of the department of archaeology, Jahangirnagar University (JU), while explaining his reason to choose this subject of study. According to history books human settlement in…
Perhaps it was wrong to assume. Perhaps I was wrong to think that because wars leave scars they mightn’t want to hear about it. It can be that the fissures brought to human understanding by communalism are not easy to…
A few nights ago, my husband and I were returning home to Dhanmondi around 11pm from a dinner party when something we all dread happened. We were at the Jhigatala Tempo stand near a check post and going straight. A…
I am a teacher at an English medium school in Dhaka and am in charge of one of the school buses that bring the students home. To get to our stops, we must travel through some remote places and that…
Aziz Super Market has been around for so long, it has become an integral part of Dhaka city’s culture. This isn’t just any old market place, it is considered to be home to many a poet, philosopher, novelist, film-maker and…
Grace and peace, long associated with the city of Boston, were shattered when two bombs went off at its popular marathon. Waves of awe and shock swept through America and the world. The ghosts of 9/11 and other horrific terrorist…
For the last 37 years, since he took the initiative to give a few hundred taka loan to some women in a remote village in Chittagong, Muhammad Yunus is slowly but steadily changing the face of global capitalism that was…
All it took was an hour and a half of flying time. To go from familiar to unfamiliar. From known to unknown. From one nation to another. Just across the border from India to Bangladesh. It should have been familiar.…
Numbers There is a staggering number of prisoners held in different jails across the country now. From a newspaper editor to the Secretary General of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), as of last week, the government has in total kept…
It has been more than a decade for me living in North America and unlike other weekends April 14 was a special Sunday! One of the few days that really reminds us of our cultural identity. Just like a flawless…
Confused Professor: “They have not killed anyone, hurt anyone, they have only expressed their minds…” Citizen: “Your Abba is a dog.” (Oh! Kutta sounds so much authentic, he thought.) Professor: “What are you saying?” Citizen: “This is freedom of speech.…
Dhaka is a happening city with slowed down mobility. This is not a contradiction in terms but a reality on the ground. One could almost say, considering the still-photo-like congestive traffic, that in a queer way, it’s an exciting metropolis…
Print making has been the choice of medium for many artists, providing the challenge of carving out images on hard material such as wood or stone, adding colour to create the desired effect on paper. Wakilur Rahman, who was once…
