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 6, 2017
Hospital ship brings quality to healthcare to remote areas
In Patuakhali's riverside communities accessing modern healthcare can be quite a challenge, particularly if specialist consultation is
September 1, 2017
Vipers terrorise Faridpur char people
At least four bitten and two dead: for the last three months the people of the river sandbanks of Char Bhadrason upazila in Faridpur
August 28, 2017
Surprisingly high levels of disability in Kushtia
That disability and poverty reinforce each other is a well-appreciated sociological phenomenon. Thus the results for Kushtia district of
August 28, 2017
Bikes keeping girls in school
For class-eight student Moni Chattri who lives in Hazaribagh tea garden in Moulvibazar's Kamalganj upazila, reaching school was
August 27, 2017
Kuakata businesswomen face capital crisis
Domen Rakhine, 45, has run a clothing stall at Kuakata Rakhine Women's Market since 2003. She is one of fourteen
August 25, 2017
Habiganj swamp forest under threat
Picture a forest where foxes and fishing cats prowl in good number, where lizard and snake species thrive, where aquatic birds and waders flock to forage. Imagine a hidden place of semi-submerged trees such as hijol, boruna and koroch growing among
August 23, 2017
Historic Gandhi Ashram in need of care
There are twelve acres, but the site isn't much to look at. Mostly overgrown and uncared for, a few paddy fields and random ponds are
August 17, 2017
Organic pest control a hit with Jessore farmers
In the villages of Bagda and Majidpur in Jessore's Keshobpur upazila these days, the key word is 'organic'. With chemical pesticides on the nose, over 200 farmers have been using sex pheromone traps to protect their crops from insect attack, with admirable success.
August 16, 2017
Escapes death but endures endless suffering
Sujan Hossain, now eight years old, was the lucky one. In June 2012 he was one of fourteen children in Dinajpur and Thakurgaon who fell sick after eating toxic litchis from gardens recently sprayed with pesticide. All were treated at Dinajpur Medical College Hospital.
August 12, 2017
Orange Man from Netrakona
Besides daily errands, Aklima Begum had barely been outside her Dhanmondi apartment in months. At first there seemed no plan to it.
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