BANGLADESHI BLOGS - an update Here is another updated list of Bangladeshi Blogs: * The 3rd world view -Bangladesh * Mac's Blog -Banglad...

COMFORTABLY NUMB? I have this guilty feeling being lucky among the people who are not affected in the recent flood. I am able to do nothing ...

FLOOD UPDATE The most happening thing in Bangladesh at the moment is of course flood. I believe the world media has covered that well. But w...

Global worming

Okay, folks, we know what you're thinking. So Google got hacked, huh? Actually, we didn't. What happened yesterday was that someone ...

QUOTES OF THE DAY * When a tree falls in the forest, does it call for help? NO. When a friend falls into an addiction, will they ask for h...

WATER WATER EVERYWHERE This year the flood is turning to be fatal like 1998. The lower parts of Dhaka City is submerged in floodwater. The ...

MINOR INFRACTIONS OF CIVIL LIBERTIES According to the Reporters sans Frontiers more journalists were physically attacked or threatened with ...

TOWARDS MORE FINANCIALLY SUSTAINABLE ICT MODELS The Bangladesh Hajj online information website has proved to be a successful initiative tak...

LINKS OF THE DAY * Jeff Jarvis provides a starter list of Blogs to the US media guys. * This is for those who love spicy food. * Lance'...

COPA AMERICA 2004 Another Brazil - Argentina Final is scheduled in Lima on 25th of July, 2004. Argentina reached the final after 11 years wi...

CLICK HERE FOR THE RECENT POSTS DHAKA HOTTIES The latest internet craze in Dhaka is an online competition for the hottest male and female i...

BANGLADESH'S IMAGE PROBLEM Bangladesh is doing better than most less developed countries. But the image of Bangladesh as seen by outside...

LOST IN TRANSLATION   Watched the movie yesterday. It was an unconventional drama with a touch of comedy. The writer/director Sofia Coppola...

LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE   It seems imposing government ideology in textbooks of schoolchildren is not only Bangladesh's problem. According...

CAUSE OF THE RECENT FLOOD   NASA images show the cause of recent flood in India, Bangladesh & Nepal is due to excessive rainfall.

ANCIENT MEDIEVAL STUPIDITY   Syed Kamran Mirza writes this controversial article " Killing by beheading is Islamic!"  and tries r...

Racking up an honor

We're five years old and already they're sticking us in a museum. The Computer History Museum, to be precise, a neighbor of ours her...

FLOODS IN BANGLADESH I am sure everyone is aware of the flash flood in Bangladesh's north-eastern region because of the media publicity....

SLAVERY IN 21ST CENTURY This should have brought into light much earlier. At last Human Rights Watch publishes a 135 page report "Bad D...

DON'T BEAT YOUR WIFE! Once again another wife-beating incident took place in Dhaka, where an Imam let his muezzin beat his wife because...

Warning: we brake for number theory

If any Silicon Valley drivers have found that traffic is moving more slowly than usual these days on the southbound 101 right around Ralston...

TODAYS POEM MY DEPENDENCE -by Rabindranath Tagore I like to be dependent, and so for ever with warmth and care of my mother my...

LYRICS TIME MONEY Money, get away. Get a good job with good pay and you're okay. Money, it's a gas. Grab that cash with both hands a...

Pluralism in Islam

I have been battered with one thought for the last couple of days. It all started since the Friday sermon I attended in a Mosque. The Imam&#...

LIFESTYLE "A Bangladeshi takes no offence at having what he has served at dinner verbally torn to shreds. In his mind he has shown hosp...

Perils of a cough syrup aggrevated by smuggling Phensidyl is a codeine based popular cough syrup, which the kids like me were used to be pre...

Which came first? The fallacious arguments:

The controversy regarding the first proclaimer of independence of Bangladesh lingers on as the BNP government (led by Khaleda Zia, the wife ...

QUOTES OF THE DAY * Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated." - Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, P...

CLASS DIVISION ..And if you thought that class division is primarily a feature of the South Asian countries, read this .

BE HAPPY The five simple rules to be happy: 1. Free your heart from hatred. 2. Free your mind from worries. 3. Live simply. 4. Give more. 5....

The SMS revolution and Bangladesh Bangladesh has probably the lowest teledensity in the world as there are only about 2.3 telephones per 100...

Apostasy in Islam Arafat (without Yasser!) writes an interesting piece on this issue. He analyzed Rushdie and found: 'Where there is no...

The relevance of understanding Islam Here is an interesting article which portrays the difference of understanding of Islam among Arab &...

Earthquake prone Dhaka Dhaka is fast becoming a megacity of humans and bricks. Unofficial sources say almost 13 million people now live in D...

Quote of the day

* "It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk." - Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956, German Dramatist, Poet *...

Much ado about bread Although a traditional breakfast of the Bangladeshis contain Roti/Chapati or Parata, urban people are habituated with b...

Islami Banking in Bangladesh

There are almost 50 banks operating in Bangladesh (about 20 are government owned), out of which 6 or 7 (all private) are running on Islami B...

Not quite a walk in the park

The great Steve Prefontaine used to say that running is about "having guts." Last Wednesday, on a hot, humid day in Central Park, ...

EURO 2004 update This years Euro champions league has produced some flare and surprises. As you can see from my voting template in the side ...

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