A Villager’s Guide to Feeding Foreigners
If you’re a straightforward villager like me, you’ll be curious to entertain the foreigner. Before you do there are things to consider. Foreigners have foreign ways; allowances are required. Yet, despite the inherent challenge it’s good to feed one. Even foreigners need to eat.
4y ago
Corporate training needs a Bangladeshi spin
Importing corporate training modules is fraught with danger. It’s time to recognise the uniqueness and strengths of Bangladeshi corporate culture, and for training providers to tailor sessions accordingly.
4y ago
Life lesson in Sylhet
Away from the news. Away from the enormity of a planet on the brink. Away from inner restlessness there is yet life. It’s what I learnt in Sylhet.
4y ago
At home in the saddle
She's determined and courageous: at the tender age of twelve, Tasmina Aktar from Chak Subolpur village in Naogaon's Dhamoirhat upazila has quite a reputation in horse racing circles. The seventh-grade student is accustomed to placing first or second in any race. As a jockey she's participated in around fifty events. Tasmina is a girl undeterred, happy to compete in a sport usually reserved for men.
5y ago
Natore's princess poet
For seven generations from the early-eighteenth century, the zamindars of Dighapatia near Natore were landlords of a vast estate,
5y ago
When darkness falls
Morzina Begum from Daktarpara in Rangpur town works in a bidi factory, rolling cheap cigarettes. Aged 75, it's not an ideal
5y ago
Bloom and grow, forever
In and around Mathorpara village, in Gaibandha's Shaghata upazila, it's become usual for every newborn child to be welcomed into the world with the planting of a tree. The tradition began three years ago by 28-year-old visual artist Gopal Chandra Barmon, as an extension of a tree-planting hobby carried from boyhood.
5y ago
Cost of floating farms on the rise
In wetland areas of Pirojpur, farming on floating seedbeds called “dhap” is a tradition that spans centuries. Primarily constructed from water hyacinth, the seedbeds that are up to 180 feet long, four feet wide and two feet thick, allow farming in areas otherwise unavailable for regular crops. But this year, the rising cost of floating cultivation has farmers worried.
5y ago
January 6, 2018
A misplaced focus
Rajshahi Zoo was once a prime recreation facility for city-dwellers and visitors. But since the city corporation took responsibility for its management in 1996, the zoo's grounds have steadily dwindled in size.
January 5, 2018
Jhalakathi's ponds face grabbing threat
Public ponds have been part and parcel of Jhalakathi town for centuries. But this heritage is now being lost due to illegal land
January 5, 2018
Many struggle with unemployment
When the ashrayan public housing project was developed on four acres in Shailkuria village in Laohati union of Tangail's Delduar
January 4, 2018
Historic theatre at risk of eviction
Regular patrons of cultural events, along with performers in Lalmonirhat town, are in anguish over the likely loss of the historic theatre
January 3, 2018
Kayaks prove popular
Around four thousand years ago the Inuit, Yup'ik and Aleut peoples of the North American Arctic invented kayaks. Originally constructed of stitched seal skin stretched over a wooden or whalebone frame, the canoe-like boats
January 3, 2018
Silk industry flourishes in the hills
Several of the peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts are famous for weaving. The production of traditional cloth and woven goods,
January 1, 2018
A fuel for the future
A smoky kitchen has long been a health hazard for Bagerhat's villagers, especially housewives and children. Now, a growing number of
December 30, 2017
A Briton with a Bangladeshi Heart
In 1960, British citizen and graduate Lucy Helen Frances Holt left the land of her birth and travelled to then East Pakistan to pursue
December 29, 2017
Abdullah's medicinal garden blessing for the poor
Understanding the medicinal properties of plants is a world of wisdom, a bank of knowledge which has often been handed down
December 27, 2017
Fish made 'fresh' thru adulteration
Fish ready for sale in Jhalakathi's twice-weekly Bargri Hat market couldn't be more attractive. The fish look fresh and shiny; but the
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