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
June 24, 2017
The road to self-reliance
From Panjabis and three-piece sets to bedspreads and bags, Ankur Handicrafts in Mymensingh town offers a wide range of handmade
June 23, 2017
Shitalpati mat-weaving tradition at risk
For well over a century the people of Subidpur village in Pirojpur's Kawkhali upazila have been producing naturally cool shitalpati mats
June 23, 2017
The return of manual husking
Early of a morning or into the evening, it used to be that the pounding, grinding sound of the urun-gayne, as it is called in Kurigram,
June 22, 2017
Change Maker: Breaking the drug cycle
Until four years ago, 32-year-old housewife Sohagi from Rajshahi city's Guripara was happy with her life. Her husband Motiur Rahman
June 22, 2017
Smuggling on the rise in Sunamganj haors
Smuggling is on the rise on the wake of the flash floods that wrought havoc in the Sunamganj haor region. Border
June 21, 2017
Mother stands for comfort, but who will comfort mother?
It's natural for mothers to worry about their children. But Hoshney Ara, 60, a widow originally from Anuraag village in Jhalakathi's
June 16, 2017
Fatwa leaves family ostracised for ten years
Village life is supposed to be quiet but for Fatir Ali and his family, from Eraligul village in Moulvibazar's Juri upazila it's far too quiet.
June 16, 2017
For the love of finches
Pint-sized and available in a range of colours, finches are a pet that won't get on the neighbours' nerves, says enthusiast Abdul
June 14, 2017
A sweet life of Thai guavas
In the quiet of his orchard Mominul Islam, 32, from Baninagar village in Lalmonirhat's Kaliganj upazila finds the serenity to reflect
June 11, 2017
Cage-farmed crabs prove a money-spinner in Patuakhali
For the past eight years Moazzem Hossain from Tulatali village in Patuakhali's Kalapara upazila has been busy farming crabs, with
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