Getting reconnected with old boys
The venue is the grassy open lawn of the Teachers and Students Centre (TSC) of the University of Dhaka. Someone bald-headed from among the crowd comes forward to embrace you. Overcoming the disbelief of your eyes you instantly recognise the 18 or 19-year-old youth whom you knew 50 years back....
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Shimky: Return of the singing bird
They all gathered there to welcome her back. Despite being a brilliant Nazrul Sangeet exponent, she had stayed out of the limelight for almost two decades. But the solo musical evening at a cosy corner at the DipanPur Book Cafe in Dhaka on Tuesday last (January 30) ended her long...
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Potential threat to human security
Human security, a non-conventional security, denotes the human dignity. The term human security propagated by UNDP in the post-cold war era is intended to focus on individuals coming across values and goals such as dignity, equity and solidarity. It is apparent that the number of Rohingya refugees has crossed half...
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The necessity of net neutrality
As citizens are living in a globalised world where physical distance is not a limiting factor to dissemination of information, it is appalling to note that we attach little importance to the mutilation of one of the most precious, yet accessible, resources we were bestowed upon by the advent of...
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