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Image crisis: What do we see

August 30, 2010
By Nayeem Hossain
Image crisis: What do we see

Untold Agonies I was going through an album of a friend. That friend recently went to Bangladesh and took pictures of Daily Life in Dhaka. When I started going through the album I started feeling a bit uncomfortable. The album had pictures of trash pilling up as if a bottle of champaign is pooping...
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The rest is silence

August 24, 2010
By Munazza siddiqui
The rest is silence

Religious practices devoid of humanity and common sense can never be anything more than mere rituals enforced to control the behavior of a community. Such rituals have historically used symbols to help resonate their identity. The burqa/headscarf controversy that has been picked up as the frontline feature in the conflict between east and west...
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Ground Zero: Debate within ourselves

August 24, 2010
By Nayeem Hossain
Ground Zero: Debate within ourselves

“Brothers, please don’t take part in Thanksgiving. What is thanksgiving to us? We must protect our children from practice of other religions. Only then can we save ourselves from hell fire!!” Everyone nodded their head around me. This happened in Fresno, the city that is very much a heaven for white conservatives in California....
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Mahmudnama or freedom of nonsense

August 23, 2010
By Sultan Mohammed Zakaria
Mahmudnama or freedom of nonsense

Mr Mahmudur Rahman, as a columnist, was ok so far the concept of freedom of expression goes. But as an Editor I think he was too unqualified to be so. Because as media is considered as the fourth column of a state, it imposes greater responsibilities on one's shoulder. Therefore, as a columnist when...
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Energy poverty opposes right to livelihood, freedom, and capability

August 16, 2010
By Rubayat Ahsan
Energy poverty opposes right to livelihood, freedom, and capability

It is apparent that world along with it’s all poor and miserable nations are already in ‘energy poverty’ and heading faster for a dark age. While we are engaged fighting for right to livelihood and for Sen’s ‘capability-freedom’, energy poverty pushes us back to deeper trouble. According to sources, nearly one-half of the global...
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Huzur Factor: Some Thoughts

August 13, 2010
By Nayeem Hossain
Huzur Factor: Some Thoughts

So here we go again. I didn’t want to write on this topic, because I know, no matter what I say or how many people read this (I doubt if more than 5 people does!) nothing is going to change. I might be colored as a Neo-Islamic fundamentalist or to some just another typical...
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PM Hasina uneasy with Energy bosses

August 11, 2010
By Kh.A.Saleque.
PM Hasina uneasy with Energy bosses

“What you said in April you are repeating in August. Where is the progress?” asked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in her fourth meeting with power and energy sector officials since assuming office. She incidentally is also in charge of the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources. While it’s true that her government inherited...
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Genocide, mostly unpunished crime against humanity

August 9, 2010
By Rubayat Ahsan
Saga of 71

The term “Genocide” came into existence in 1944. It was then known as crime against specific group to cleanse them from the face of the earth. Nazi’s intentions to systematically extinct European Jews is significant crime against humanity which fall under the discourse of genocide. On December 9, 1948 United Nations approved the Convention...
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Is Muslim majority Bangladesh poised to convert into a secular nation?

August 5, 2010
By Saleem Samad
Is Muslim majority Bangladesh poised to convert into a secular nation?

FOR MILLIONS of people in impoverished Bangladesh, it seems to have ushered a political blessing. The nation which fought a bloody war of independence in 1971 against Islamic Pakistan to establish secularism and democracy was obliterated by military juntas and autocratic governments. Bangladesh's first constitution included secularism, democracy, socialism and nationalism as key political philosophy...
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The inside story of drug:Trafficking in developing countries

August 5, 2010
By Abul Maruf Subarno
The inside story of drug:Trafficking in developing countries

Opium and hemp are cultivated covertly in the rural, border and hilly areas of Bangladesh with the unofficial help of local governments. Several poppy fields have been recently discovered within tobacco plants. Moreover, it is alleged that some certified drug producing companies illegally produce duplicate phensidyl syrup and yaba tablets and sell in the...
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