Tale of bread and biscuit in local market
A quiet revolution has taken place on the bread and biscuit manufacturing front. Not long ago, tinned biscuits, sealed cakes from a few South-east Asian countries captured the market here. Even parata from Malaysia gained some popularity here. All because there was no local company that produced comparable items. So...
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Sher-e-Bangla A K Fazlul Huq
October 26 is a date with an asterisk in our national life. On this day, 144 years ago, Sher-e-Bangla A K Fazlul Huq was born at his grandparents' village home at Saturia in Jhalakathi district. A unique figure in the turbulent political environment of pre-partitioned India, Sher-e-Bangla realised early in...
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Into the 16th year of torch-bearing
The literary journal Natun Diganta's stepping into its 16th year of publication is undoubtedly a remarkable event in our world of journals. The 61 issues, published so far included assorted contributions from scholarly essays on literary and socio-economic issues, fact-based history and perspective of the Liberation War and other edifying...
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Dividing education is dividing culture
Over the last few years some light has fallen on the education system, especially madrasas and other Islamic religion-based institutions, with questions being raised by governments, local and international news agencies, media groups, researchers, policy analysts and politicians. Why do people send their children to the Islamic educational institutions? Many...
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