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
April 4, 2017
Change Maker: The brush makers who changed many lives
Introducing three entrepreneurs: Ramjan Ali, Rokon Mollah and Abdul Mannan; they have things in common. All hail from
April 3, 2017
Bags promise banana boost
For a long time the banana plantations in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj have relied on pesticides. Now, eco-friendly bags to protect the ripening fruit promise to revolutionise the industry and make chemical-free bananas the marketplace standard. Moreover, the new 'safe' bananas open the door to exports.
March 31, 2017
Hard to get safe water
The shifting geography of the country's southern coast creates both opportunity and challenge. Eight remote shoals twenty kilometres
March 29, 2017
Use of banned net killing fish resources
To stroll along the Pankhali Ferry Ghat riverbank via Chalna Bazar in Khulna's Dacope upazila is to watch fishers busy, dawn to dusk, as they haul fine-mesh triangular nets in the hope of collecting juvenile shrimp.
March 27, 2017
Streambed in peril for stone extraction
The villagers of U Bang Koi Marma Para in Bandarban are struggling to find water. It's not the result of a calamitous drought but an entirely manmade problem.
March 24, 2017
Where are the Mahananda river's rights?
Once alive with human activity and brimming with fish, the Mahananda river born of Nepal's Himalayas and traversing India's Malda
March 23, 2017
Sunflowers brighten fields, farmers' lives in Pirojpur
Sunflowers add joy to any landscape. The sunflower fields of Pirojpur are painting the district bright. And beyond their visual beauty, to farmers sunflower cultivation brings good profits.
March 23, 2017
Change Maker: Villagers unite to create a 'dream village'
Unity is strength. The self-motivated young people of Bharra union's ward number six in Tangail's Nagarpur upazila, a community of
March 20, 2017
C'nawabganj reaps reward of mangoes
In the red, hard and dry soils around Chapainawabganj, characteristic of the Barind region in general, even an adept farmer finds it
March 19, 2017
Lone teacher struggles to manage govt primary school
Lessons to plan, papers to mark, administrative tasks that seem without end: any school teacher knows how much there is to do,
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