Bangla language is going through a phase. The phase is not of natural evolution, rather transformation due to pollution. This pollution should have been stopped by society and its so called intellectuals, but as many social issues the medicine is prescribed by our activist courts. I salute them one more time. Many good things...
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“Occupy Wall Street” has caught many off guard, not only domestically but also globally. It almost seems like some dumb kids were spending way too much time (probably around five minutes) watching global news and realized what has happened in the Middle East. Since the Arab Spring, virtually every country in that region has...
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This is the month of March. We always celebrate our Independence Day on this month, but we were actually celebrating one of the success of this independence with the organizing of World Cup Cricket this year. We could’ve done this long time back in 1996 but couldn’t do it. Why? Well because our players...
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Just saw the Dhaka Stock Exchange has gone to the Wibley Wobley again. It reminds me of another stock market, but for that everyone will have to know a bit of history. That’s the US stock market back in the 20s. The whole market used to run on rumors. Average people will invest all...
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When John Milton wrote Paradise Lost, he definitely didn’t have the idea that the “Kingdom of Heaven” in Middle East would be a permanent lost cause. The recent uprising in the Middle East against long serving autocratic regimes indicate two things; you can’t get away with oppression in 21st century technology era, and poverty is as real...
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I never thought the first blog of this year is going to be about death of a girl, whose birth was a symbol of triumph against the evil we are all fighting since 2001. But as it turns out, the New Year for us just came as a change of date, nothing more than...
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Happy Victory Bangladesh. One, two, three..there’ll be thirty nine candles now on the cake today, isn’t it? We all celebrate your Victory day but we lost you, it’s our fault. The Bangladesh that was born in 1971 is a distant memory today. Every year, right around victory day, we all start soul searching; what went wrong, who’s fault...
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Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the news media during the Vietnam War, recently praised heavily for the Wikileaks. He’s comments in a discussion meeting on the eve of the documentary; “The Most Dangerous Man in America” said he wished Wikileaks existed in his time. He wouldn’t have to take...
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I will always remember one dialog from a former cricketer, “Form is temporary, class is permanent.” My father used to tell me not to take sports too seriously. I wasn’t that good anyways, but I am a close follower of sports. I can guarantee I know more about sports history then many sports journalist! One...
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What is the meaning of “strike”? In a general sense, it means to hit something or someone. In the definition of an activist, it has a special meaning. The meaning is to halt activity to show non cooperation to an authority to show the activists dissatisfaction. Now the question comes, when would you stop...
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