Autumn offers a perfect setting for Durga Puja

Sarat or autumn, the third season on the Bangla calendar, is unlike the fall in the Western hemisphere. They call it fall perhaps because the trees mostly shed their leaves that turn profusely crimson. Before their demise, the leaves exhaust all the hues they command in their last gasp of...

Tapping the full potential

The small-scale tea industry in Bangladesh is emerging with great potential. Tea plantations had a significant impact on the country's socioeconomic profile since the British period. Since the mid-1990s, a large number of local small and medium-level peasants have been turning to small-scale tea plantations. This number has increased dramatically...