A man who lived life to the fullest
It is with a heavy heart today that I write about the passing of Faruq Ahmed Choudhury - a man whose presence loomed large not just for those of us who that the good fortune of knowing him, but for our entire nation.
7y ago
Orlando massacre underlines the urgency to crush ISIS
Muslim Americans were having a good week last week. As Americans watched the nationally televised funeral for Muhammad Ali on
7y ago
Muhammad Ali, forever the Greatest
In eulogising a hero, as Muhammad Ali was to me, the danger is that one may get carried away and heap undeserved superlatives on the
7y ago
RECENT KILLINGS TARNISH BANGLADESH’S TOLERANT IMAGE
Not only the European Union, but the rest of the world is also beginning to express concern about the spate of killings by extremists in Bangladesh over the last three years.
7y ago
Pakistan incrminates itself for war crimes in Bangladesh
When it comes to Bangladesh, Pakistan practices its own version of Holocaust denial and continues to behave like unrepentant Nazis. Pakistan never admitted to the crimes its soldiers committed against Bangladeshis in 1971.
8y ago
Tigers Need To Pick Up on their fielding
The recently concluded World T20 Championship in India started with a bang – with Martin Guptill of New Zealand hitting the first ball
8y ago
Acting fuels Trump's success, just as it did Ronald Reagan's
Whether Trump can win the presidency is unclear. Trump supporters may be angry, but the rest of America is not.
8y ago
Improving the Dhaka airport experience
Before deplaning, I make sure that I won't have to use the bathroom facilities for the one to two hours that I will spend in the terminal building. The stench of the bathrooms is overpowering! One shudders to think of the reaction of foreigners.
8y ago
October 19, 2015
Ben Carson is Getting Away with Incendiary Rhetoric
Carson's attack on President Obama is akin to a slave praising slavery. Because Carson is doing the Republican base's dirty work, he is being consistently rewarded with a second place finish in the polls.
September 20, 2015
How 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed's arrest backfired!
Up until September 14, fourteen year-old Ahmed Mohamed was an unknown teenager starting his freshman year at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas,
September 4, 2015
The rise and fall of “Bobby” Jindal
Two-term Governor of Louisiana, Piyush “Bobby” Jindal, the first Indian-American to be elected governor of a US state, is one of the 17
August 19, 2015
BANGLADESH'S ZAHID HASAN
Princeton University Physics Professor M. Zahid Hasan, born and brought up in Bangladesh, electrified the world of physics last month by discovering the elusive massless quasi particle, Weyl fermion, predicted 85 years earlier.
July 29, 2015
Republicans encounter the turbulence of Donald Trump
Just as the von Trapp family expressed their exasperation attempting to tame the free spirited Maria through a memorable song in The Sound of Music, the Republican Party is confronting the same dilemma with the irrepressible Donald Trump.
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