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.
5y 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.
5y 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.
5y 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.
6y 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,
6y 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
6y 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.
6y 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.
6y ago
September 22, 2017
Nature Quest: Guardian tree of Faridpur
Caught in the mosaic of day-to-day concerns, it's not always that one can appreciate the bigger picture: how much the future is with
September 21, 2017
Where women run the show
A good percentage of village women right across the country don't feel entirely comfortable to visit local markets.
September 20, 2017
Barisal potters’ future looks bleak
The four villages of Maheshpur Paul Para in Niamati union of Barisal's Bakerganj upazila have a long association with clay. For
September 19, 2017
Roving barbers still popular
Seventy-year-old Sudhir Chandra Shil from Napitpara, which means 'the barbers' locality', in Chhinay union of Kurigram's Rajarhat
September 19, 2017
Low-cost device for securing homes
Regardless of culture or creed, around the world people commonly share a basic concern: they like to know that when they've gone
September 15, 2017
Nature Quest: It's all but gone
Spider, snake and scorpion: all creatures, regardless of how attractive or appealing they are to the human eye, are worthy of
September 15, 2017
Death by poison: A constant threat for Sundarbans crustaceans and fish
A few drops of poison are all it takes to decimate fish and crustacean stocks in a Sundarbans canal. The poachers who cruise the
September 9, 2017
Change Maker: Dragon fruit kindles hope
Originally from Mexico and nowadays common in Southeast Asia and China, the delectable dragon fruit, also called pitaya, is a relative
September 8, 2017
Patuakhali, Barguna public housing in bad shape
Fifteen years ago when Nasir Uddin from Bazargona village in Patuakhali Sadar upazila moved into a local Ashrayan public housing
September 7, 2017
Bagerhat's Chitra river forest at risk
Approximately one hundred kilometres north of the Sundarbans along the banks of Bagerhat's Chitra River is a
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