The Daily Star: Internet Edition Thu. May 17, 2007

Vol. 5 Num 1051

Thu. May 17, 2007


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Village chronicle
Nazrul Islam
I have a habit of visiting my village every two, or sometimes less, months. I went there a few days ago, braving sweltering heat. It is not so easy to reach my village in the northern district of Bogra.

The unbearable temporality of Professor Yunus's political being
Adnan Morshed
IT is no coincidence that the title of this piece on Professor Yunus's short-lived political life rhymes with that of the Czech writer Milan Kundera's classic novel: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Now ban the brutal lathee
Mahfuzur Rahman
More than a century ago Bankim Chandra Chatterji lamented, in one of his famous novels, the demise, or rather the metamorphosis, of the lathee, the sturdy staff that was once as ubiquitous in Bengali