Key To The Past
The Modern life brings in a dramatic change to city life. Potentially, it has a large impact on employment, and in many places advance technology has replaced clerical work and skilled services.
21 May 2015
FROM A FADING ERA
Modern technology has bulldozed over many age-long practices and professions. Fortunately, a few still survive to tell the tales of days gone by. Those who are nostalgic about the olden days can seek out these rare services and reminisce about a very different, fast disappearing culture.
21 May 2015
THE POWER OF STORYTELLING
Whatever we do in our mundane life, we usually do it for money. A few people dare to dream, can follow where the dreams lead.
14 May 2015
NARRATING EVIL
Let's begin the story with a clichéd and somewhat banal question-- did Felani, a 15- year- old girl who was shot dead by the Indian
7 May 2015
HUMILIATED AND INSULTED
Rina Akther, a 16 year-old domestic worker begins her day at the break of dawn.
30 April 2015
‘PUTHI’ IN THE WAKE OF NATIONALIST MOVEMENT
Before the advent of modernism in undivided South Asia, puthi was the only source of entertainment. Be it a feudal lord or a farmer,
23 April 2015
Let there be light
AT the beginning of the industrial revolution, a farmer was also able to make shoes, and the women spent their days making handmade pottery and spinning yarn or cloth.
23 April 2015
In the Wake of Disaster
After a three-month-long countrywide shutdown, the situation has considerably improved in the last few weeks.
16 April 2015
Three Years Later…
A sewing machine and a dozen colorful threads still give hope and strength to labour leader Aminul Islam's family, to survive.
2 April 2015
SAVING RAIN WATER
South Asia has a long drawn history of rain water harvesting.
19 March 2015
the Mystic Saint
Amra achi polapan, Gazi ache nigahman
Shire Ganga dariya Panch Pir, Badr Badr Badr
12 March 2015
AN ENTREPRENEUR'S TALE
Ivy Hasan, an entrepreneur and artist, has gone out of her way to fulfill her promise of upholding the character of our culture and nation.
5 March 2015
Annihilation of an Oral language
What would people do if their language disappeared into oblivion? What would happen to a culture when its language is extinct? These questions might pop up in one's mind when s/he learned that Achik, the oral language of the Garos, is on the verge of extinction.
5 March 2015
The Lure of Storytelling
I am an accidental journalist, the one who sort of stumbled into the world of writing. I had a different dream as a kid.
27 February 2015
STORY OF THE BANGLA PRESS
A teacher of a small village was so overwhelmed by the atrocities of the landowners or zamindars of colonial India that he decided to write something in protest.
20 February 2015
SAVING THE CINEMATIC PAST
Following a dilapidated corridor, we reach a wooden door, and enter into a dark room. The light flickers for a bit when it is turned on before illuminating the tiny room with its brightness. A huge collection of film cans ranging from the earliest preserved films to the latest day films emerge in front of us.
6 February 2015