Weather | Dhaka Last year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA celebrated 150 years of its birth. In these years, it had played the lead role in taking the US into the future.
Sunday Pouch Print EditionRussia has been steadfast in its diplomatic support for the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, even as Assad becomes ever more isolated within the Arab League and the international community.
Print EditionSidratul Muntaha Paloma (9), a student of Class 2 of Monipur High School and College was crushed under the wheels of a speeding bus in front of the school as she, escorted by her mother, was waiting to cross the road. On that fateful morning, Muntaha pressed her mother to hurry up because she would not be allowed to enter if she reached after 7-25 a.m. Alas! Because of the indiscreet and haughty action of a bus driver that left her lifeless in a pool of blood on the road, the school gate was closed for her forever.
Bitter Truth Print EditionI have no idea what the word "Buriganga" actually means and who gave this name. If we take "Buri" to mean "Old" the Buriganga river, on the banks of which stands the city of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, has certainly now become old. The river has not only grown old, it has also turned grey, pale and sick, and lost all its colour and texture.
Print EditionOnly when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing," said Kahlil Gibran. As did the ancient Dhrupad musicians of the subcontinent, who underscored the importance of silence in their musical renditions. According to them, the meditative pauses in the melodic patterns allow singers to create and improvise, since silence enables us to connect to our inner selves.
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