Bangladesh is not a tourist destination; I see no possibility of becoming one in near future, and there is nothing wrong in it. On the contrary, I am rather happy that it is not. Tourists are a nuisance, and tourism based economies are vulnerable. Thank god we are not dependent on tourism in the middle …
Some generic, proven in practice, communication tips for making our everyday lives easier 1 Do not end your opening messages with just Hi / Hey / Hello / Hello bhai / Assalaumu alaikum/ How are you? / Kemon achhen?/I have a question—type of sentences. Add your issue/actual-message/questions along with your greetings right in the first …
Dating apps in Dhaka are such nightmares! I recently signed up on Tinder and Bumble, and it’s been a terrible experience so far. People say their interest is “Netflix” How can someone’s “interest” be Netflix?! Movies, Comedy, SciFi or Drama can be interests, Netflix can’t, it’s a platform, not a genre! I never knew “Shopping” …
I walk. I try to enforce the rule—I must walk to any distance shorter than three kilometres, even if I have access to alternatives. As I walk, the paths accumulate memories. They become ingrained in the mental map of the city. Probably the most vivid of all meta memory of footpaths are the ones with …
The war of burgers 🍔 in Dhaka is intense. It is a verily controversial topic, and people are often deeply emotional or indoctrinated about their choices 🤓 The common tendency of local restaurants is to transform everything into a torkari. They did the same with burgers. They introduced this jhol and jhal that messed everything …
বাংলাদেশে ধর্ষণের বিচারে মাত্র ৩% মামলায় এ পর্যন্ত অপরাধী সাজা পেয়েছে। এর একটা বড় কারণ অপরাধ প্রমাণের জন্য আলামতের অভাব, সেই সাথে আইনের দুর্বলতা। যে হারে এই অপরাধ বাড়ছে, তাতে দুঃখজনকভাবে আমাদের আশেপাশেই যে কেউ ধর্ষণের শিকার হতে পারেন। এমন ভয়াবহ ঘটনার পর আমরা মানসিক বিপর্যয় থেকে অনেক ভুল করতে পারি। ধর্ষিত ব্যক্তিকে সাহায্য করা, …
[Last updated on 19 March 2020] Some random trivial language issues in Bengali and English in local and international context, I keep adding to this post whenever I come across new words and phrases that may have completely different meaning in various local contexts 🙂 Spicy (global)Please do not use the words “spicy” and “hot” …
When the teachers may have separated you from your friends and made you sit far apart, you have to find a way to still communicate urgent matters to your friends during the class! A technic of communication that has to be subtle, discrete, and ideally without sending or receiving any physical object. Yeah, passing a …
[Photo © Abdul Momin] History is a philosophical and political statement or opinion, and it is invariably incomplete. It is never absolute, and will always invoke a range of responses, from outright rejection to enthusiastic support, depending on who the narrator, and who the readers are. We have learned to accept the incompleteness of history …
The existence and use of the word ‘culture’ has a fundamental problem. It is inherently selfish and the brewing ground of stereotypes. The word culture, quickly makes us self-conscious, defensive and proud. We jump into defining the boundaries of it and desperately try to promote its uniqueness. I want to question the fundamental necessity of …