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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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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“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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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