During his political career, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy held various important offices including the deputy mayoralty of the Calcutta Corporation in...
Harun-or-Rashid :During his political career, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy held various important offices including the deputy mayoralty of the Calcutta Corporation...
Professor Dr.-Ing. Saifullah Khandker :German public education makes it possible for qualified kids to study up to university level, regardless...
Shakeel A. MalikAnniversaries of destiny shaping moments in nations’ history offer opportunities to celebrate the achievements. The national occasions also make the citizens reflect on the reasons for failing to achieve the objectives set by the founding fathers. This time around, the nation is reliving history-altering days of All India Muslim League’s annual session convened from 22 to 24 March 1940 in Lahore. In this assembly an historic Resolution was adopted that seven years later led to creation of an...
Shakeel A. Malik :Anniversaries of destiny shaping moments in nations’ history offer opportunities to celebrate the achievements. The national occasions also make the citizens reflect on the reasons for failing to achieve the objectives set by the founding fathers. This time around, the nation is reliving history-altering days of All India Muslim League’s annual session convened from 22 to 24 March 1940 in Lahore. In this assembly an historic Resolution was adopted that seven years later led to creation of...
Bangladesh Awami League :1920: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born to a respectable Muslim family on March 17th, 1920, in Tungipara...
Americans celebrate Independence Day on July 4 because that’s when, in 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of...
Matthew Pritchard :What can Tagore’s music mean to the West? I’ll begin by explaining briefly my own involvement with Tagore’s music. More than a decade ago I first explored Calcutta, visited Tagore’s family home, and read some of his writings in translation. I was interested by him primarily as a poet, a writer of fiction, and cultural figure, but my curiosity was also piqued by the discovery that he had composed songs. No less a figure than Satyajit Ray, I...
Siddique Mahmudur Rahman :Kazi Nazrul Islam, known as the ‘Rebel’ poet in Bengali literature and the ‘Bulbul’ (Nightingale) of Bengali...
M. Mizanur Rhman :Our National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam thus sings the song on Eid-ul-Fitr-Oh! Great soul, pleasant Eid has comeafter the end of Ramadan-fasting!Now be resigned yourselfby Allah’s gracious bidding; Distribute your jewelry-treasury’s sumand building-asset’s sumas Zakat(financial aid to the have-nots) but in the name of Allahby waking up the slumberous dead Muslims! Today you’ll say your prayer of Eid by heart at that Eidgahand that Warfield where Gazi-Muslimsbecame martyrs!Today forget your friend and foe, better embrace each other hand...
Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque :The present government would step into 3rd year of governance with the advent of the New Year. A cumulative effect of running the show through wear and tear during the last two years generated a lot of challenges and the government needs to be circumspect thinking to try something new to bring sanity to governance and try to redeem pre-election pledges as much as possible. Distressingly the beginning of 2015 was inauspicious. Confrontational politics reached a...
Dr. A M M Anisul Awwal :Malnutrition (both under and over) is a global problem with definite trend of inclination towards developing countries. The extent and magnitude of the problems of malnutrition varies significantly across countries and regions. Analysis of data reveals that malnutrition is more predominant in Asia, particularly in the South-Asia than in any other region of the world. UNICEF reports that 70% of the world’s malnutrition is in the South-East Asia. India and Bangladesh constitute 70% of...