Violence against students: ENOUGH!
When Bangladesh bleeds, no one scores any political point, however lofty their political ideologies are.
3m ago
Must students learn studentship before they learn to learn?
Universities are not teaching entities, per se. Universities are, instead, transformative sanctuaries.
5m ago
For whom is student evaluation of teaching necessary?
What we euphemistically call student evaluation of teaching is, in fact, a “Customers Satisfaction Survey.”
7m ago
So, ChatGPT can write? Ahem!
The correlation between writing and technology is as old as writing, for writing IS technology. Technological advances such as papyrus, the printing press, the mechanical pencil, the fountain pen, and the typewriter have complemented writing.
1y ago
ChatGPT and Writing: A Deadly Combination!
When it comes to writing, ChatGPT is a BIG nothing
1y ago
Some Writing Instruction Re-considered
Writing is not an art suddenly discovered. It’s a craft gradually developed. Writing–both creative and critical– is formulaic, the way math is.
3y ago
2020 in Retrospect: Reinventing the university in a post-pandemic world
Why does the year 2020 still linger around? The Covid-19 pandemic has brought our civilisation to its knees this year. We’re already tired, scared, and hopeless.
3y ago
Covid-19 pandemic and the paradoxes of universities
We are almost at the tail-end of the year 2020. What a year this has been! We haven’t lived it.
4y ago
September 6, 2020
Pandemic Pedagogy
The Covid-19 pandemic has altered all of our professional beliefs and behaviours. I used to believe, for example, that teaching is a flesh-and-blood experience and that human interaction is essential to education.
August 8, 2020
So, you want to kill the university?
When the lockdown was imposed because of the Covid-19 pandemic in March, I shifted to online teaching at a university here in Dhaka.
August 8, 2020
Diary of Pandemic Days
It’s already been several months since we’ve been hurled into the vortex of the coronavirus. The virus lives among us, silent and invisible.
July 5, 2020
Professor, who do you profess to now?
I always wanted to be a professor in English. When the pandemic hit and lockdown began, I ended up being a professor in pandemic.
June 20, 2020
Poetics of Pandemic
Any pandemic is crushing. COVID-19 is no exception. It strains cognition and emotion. It tanks economies. It disrupts communication. It alters psychology. It breeds panic and paranoia.
April 25, 2020
Viral Miseries
I always knew that life is unpredictable. But between February and April this year, I started to discover what it truly means to live an unpredictable life.
March 29, 2020
Coronavirus pandemic: Are we (mis)managing it?
I’m panicked, as is everyone around the world now. We’re faced with an existential threat. A death sentence hovers over us as it has hovered over Wuhan, China, since December 2019.
February 29, 2020
What Makes Good Writing Good?
To answer this question, let me hazard an analogy -- good writing is much like good food. Good writing tickles our senses the way good food does.
January 11, 2020
On Writer’s Block
Fairly recently, I was working with two of my colleagues here in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to propose a panel for a conference in North America.
October 12, 2019
Is Writing a Gift?
If it is, where is this gift coming from? God? Ahem! As off-putting as it might sound, biographies and autobiographies of writers reveal that most so-called gifted writers are scoundrels.
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