It’s time. You’re ready to say goodbye. It’s adios to the unrelenting traffic. You won’t be seeing the stacks of paperwork. Early mornings and you are so done. At least for those few magical days of vacation. Staying at one…
At 2 pm I glanced down the hall to the room they call the new big, in which I taught the teenagers of an evening. The language centre in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, was always growing, with a plan to convert…
This is the fourth in a series of articles written by Farah Ghuznavi as Writer in Residence at the Commonwealth Writers website, based in the UK.Commonwealth Writers is the cultural initiative from the Commonwealth Foundation, and Farah is their first…
The September 21-26 photo exhibition at the Liberation War Museum was air-conditioning for the eye, and if you are susceptible to history, the soul. It showcased an unusually interesting mix of photos, giving a sense of what museums and art…
Many people have heard the saying “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”. In fact it is a misquote of the original line from a poem “An essay on criticism” by the British poet Alexander Pope. A little learning is…
It wasn’t long ago that a friend of mine who is a foreigner had asked me, “Do you have any place in your country where you can feel the essence of your history?” My knowledge of the history of our…
Music is all about interaction, it’s all about the special connect that you make with your audience in the few hours of a performance. Brazilian classical guitarist Arnaldo Friere doesn’t need words to communicate with his audience nor does he…
Shahabuddin’s canvases are full of massive, dynamic figures. He appears to put magic in the impossible to depict the winning of the land in nine months the Liberation War of ‘71’. The muscle bound limbs, torsos, and the fingers are…
The modern story of photography is more impressive than its cloudy early days. In this era, technology seems to have reached a new height with the advent of ‘mobile clicks’. Now everyone, in cities and even remote hamlets is…
Can Dhaka be saved? Can it be made livable again, and turned into the green and friendly city it once was? Can its crazy landscape of high-rise ghettos, random shopping centres, festering slums and residential neighbourhoods that have also morphed…
When we were young, we yearned for top scores in our favourite subjects and to be top of the class. When people start their own companies, they want to get ahead of their peers. On the national scale, nations want…
When he was a judge of the High Court Division, Justice ABM Khairul Haque in a verdict on contempt of court ordinance in 2008 said the power to punish anybody for contempt of court was created to ensure litigants the…
Do not ignore important signs and symptoms — from sudden weight loss to flashes of light — and know when to seek medical care. Chest pain, an upset stomach, sudden loss of vision or speech, and severe abdominal pain require…
I have a secret to share today. I have fallen in love. Those of you who are smacking their lips with a twinkle in the eyes, hoping to read something saucy in this otherwise drab column, are going to be…
When we started this Chintito column on our newspaper broadsheet from our Dhanmandi Road 3 office in May 1993, our humble vision was to inspire our youth with the spirit of Muktijuddho (mind you, the early youth readers are today…
Where Do We Stand? While surfing channels on the TV, a news scrolling down a newsfeed caught my eye. It read ‘Farmer choked to death by the BSF.’ I had earlier read that the Indian government had discouraged the Indian…
As Canada’s only exclusively liberal arts university, St. Thomas University, or STU, offers interested students a unique chance to be part of an extremely welcoming and like-minded community in the historic and beautiful city of Fredericton, New Brunswick. Fredericton is…
Forest Fears Bangladesh needs more power plants to keep up with its demand but I do not understand why it has to be established by destroying the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest. It protects our land from coastal disasters…
“I like tea and I’ve no problem about having tea with Khaleda Zia…we’ve always been flexible time and again for the welfare of the country’s people, although the opposition leader, her sons and cabinet members tried to kill me through…
It may be as simple as the alarm going off and with you wondering why it’s still so dark at 7am. Being the tech-savvy person that you are the alarm has been set at 3am with a screaming rendition of…
