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
August 12, 2017
Lifeline for the poor
For the last few days Kolpona Begum from Nurpur in Pabna Sadar upazila has been suffering from high fever. She works as a cook in a student mess: the pay is meagre.
August 11, 2017
Nature Quest: Madaripur monkeys vanishing
In the 1950s there were as many as 50,000 rhesus macaques that called Madaripur town home. The rhesus macaque is one of the
August 10, 2017
Brisk business in boats in Moulvibazar
When rain deluges the haor wetlands of Moulvibazar, boats become for many the only practical transport option.
August 9, 2017
The sweet jewel of Gour
When the mango season is waning but cravings for the delectable fruit are as strong as ever, what does one do? Well, don't worry,
August 9, 2017
Water lilies, a loyal friend to Munshiganj farmers
In many parts of the country this year's heavy rainfall has submerged extensive stretches of farmland and Sirajdhikhan upazila in
August 7, 2017
B'baria schoolchildren at risk
For up to three thousand schoolchildren in Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar upazila, dilapidated school buildings are a usual hazard.
August 6, 2017
School closed for 5 months a year for monsoon flood
Modongouri Government Primary School in Moulvibazar's Kulaura upazila, which has around 200 students enrolled, has been closed
August 5, 2017
Bhabadaha: A tale of sorrow
Once famed for the ingenuity of its 21 sluice gates designed to efficiently channel the water of several rivers through plains and
August 4, 2017
Piper chaba vines lucrative for Kurigram farmers
Farmers in Kurigram's Rajarhat upazila are discovering the joy of cultivating the piper chaba plant, a vine locally known as choi jhal
August 3, 2017
Going green
Remote Char Fasson towards the southern tip of Bhola Island is not exactly the sort of place where one might expect to encounter a
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