So this story starts where I ended the last one. The election has become a mega marketing campaign. The group who’ll sell their product better with bigger ad campaign, more mail in marketing material and confident salesmen will win the race. This time to pick the cost of commander-in-chief is nearly three billion dollars and…
According to US census in 2011 Mississippi’s poverty rate was 22.6; New Mexico 21.5, Louisiana 20.4, Kentucky 19.1, South Carolina 18.9, Texas 18.5. All up from 2010. Funny thing is, it’s easy to say that President Obama’s policies are not working. That’s the reason these states are all in deep poverty. It is partially true,…
A typical Dhaka city boy. Ideal School ’06 batch, Dhaka College ’08, North South University. I don’t know him personally, but I do know many of his school friends, who are as shocked as his parents at what he has turned out to be. However, what Redwan Nafis did or did not do is the…
Whatever the extent of corruption in Bangladesh is, it has been prevailing here since long, and reportedly in large scale for the last decade. It’s proved in surveys and also through the number of corruption cases, media reports and remarks by ruling party stalwarts, and these days even by incumbent senior ministers. But our prime…
Changed is the roadsides, interior, fashion. Mobile phone replaced yellow envelope. Toiletries have changed, and so the ornaments, and even, the book cover, banking, entertainment, car model, get-up, coffee mug, social gathering etc.—everything related to our life—along with that changing the colors. This very city Dhaka, which was once of the same height to that…
Well, Bangladesh-US ‘security relation’ finally comes out of the curtain. On Saturday the visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Bangladesh foreign minister declared that the two countries will sit together annually to review their ‘security cooperation’. The Secretary reached Dhaka in the evening and instead of wasting any time in resting, she sat…
In the end it’s the game of politics. It’s the blame game legacy of the two key political parties of Bangladesh- the Awami League and the BNP. The parties, the media, even the people do not care about the number of disappeared. Only the name is the countable one! Well, do you think that the…
Government may not answer the question if the agencies or law enforcers are responsible for disappearance cases. Well, people won’t mind much in government’s silence, if they find the disappeared one is back to his home. In 71 BC although he was presumed killed in battle, the body of the rebel slave Spartacus was never…
Secularism is not against religion as propagated by the Islamists, it simply means that religion should be kept separate from the affairs of the state and governance. This was the essence of the press conference, held at the Karachi Press Club on April 18, 2012, to launch the Pakistan Chapter of ‘Secular Humanists of the…
I was watching Elon Musk’s interview in The Daily Show the other night. Those who don’t know, Elon is the entrepreneur and engineer who co-founded PayPal. Later he established Tesla Motors, the premier electric car company and now SpaceX- the first private initiative for space expedition and space tourism. Answering a question he said he…
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