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CHINTITO SINCE 1995

Nizamuddin Ahmed

CHINTITO SINCE 1995

The writer is a practising Architect at BashaBari Ltd., a Commonwealth Scholar and a Fellow, a Baden-Powell Fellow Scout Leader, and a Major Donor Rotarian.

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Chintito since 1995 / Truth shall prevail

15 March 2024
And so now the Pope is wrong because he is calling for peace and trying to save lives. He advised Ukraine to show the “white flag”, which other than meaning surrender is also a symbol of peace.
15 March 2024
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Twisted thoughts, warped words, and despicable deeds

1 March 2024
You have all been invited for “daal-bhaat to a gorib’s house” by (surprise, surprise) a well-to-do host. Obviously, he is far from being poor. Or else, he would not have invited you.
1 March 2024
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Chintito since 1995 / This land is not for sale

2 February 2024
The present landlords have been living on their land, happily, merrily, for eons with their elders and children.
2 February 2024
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Chinito Since 1995 / In search of an apt pasture to graze

19 January 2024
There is a reason why you do not see me singing on television.
19 January 2024
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Chintito Since1995 / No way out for the poor

5 January 2024
Relaxing on the deck of his 50-metre yacht, off the Grand Resort Lagonissi in Athens, a quadrillionaire was sipping on his orange juice before a late breakfast. It was spiked with a dash of lemon and fresh mint sprigs.  
5 January 2024
Gulshan Fire

Gulshan Fire / Why we need proper fire safety plan for each building

21 February 2023
Grenfel Tower in London was entrapped in the myth that a single staircase under mechanically-induced positive air pressure was safe for a 24-storey block of apartments.
21 February 2023
The world mourns the death of Brazilian football legend Pele

Pelé: Unseeing is believing

31 December 2022
The world is grieving for Pelé, one of its most gifted sons, who won the universe with his football skills.
31 December 2022
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When in Qatar, be a Qatari

10 December 2022
In the days leading up to the greatest show on earth, miserably apt was the Bangla saying, "Jare dekhte nari, tar cholon banka."
10 December 2022
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A tale of two committers

The Muslim world is in agony each time there is a killing in a non-Muslim locale. Who did it? Why, is not important, and most often never known. Will it be a person carrying a Muslim name? Will they then search for his terrorist linkage? Will it be a non-
24 June 2016
Selfies

'Likes' that can kill

Selfies were born when people found no one to take their photo. Again, no one among family and friends wanted to be left out, and so the crowding into the frame began.
12 June 2016
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Not a perfect ending

This is your Chief, whatever you meant by that. Can you hear me?
2 June 2016
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United in Division

You do not necessarily have to be an Awami League aficionado to appreciate that the two mayors of Dhaka City, albeit split along
23 May 2016
In a relationship

In a relationship

It will perhaps be beyond the imagination of a couple today that the year-old baby they are cuddling so fondly as their keeps-forever heart and soul...
16 May 2016
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Whither professionalism

It happens occasionally, during busy hours particularly, that even before you can get off the rickshaw, mama has begun negotiating with his next customer...
8 May 2016

May Day! May Day! And Mayday!

May Day 1: Our most common understanding of May 1 being a holiday is that it represents a movement for the establishment of the rights of workers.
2 May 2016
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Famed by PP, framed at BB

A city can become famous for one or more reasons; for instance, Dhaka is famous for its myriad of masjids, although some may prefer tagging traffic jams or 'relieving' denizens standing against a wall, looking smilingly towards the sky every now and then.
16 April 2016

Goodness is unbelievable

We have deeply eroded our human qualities, since when I cannot quite remember, although from a partisan point of view there will be as many opinions as there are political shades, not so much about the societal abrasion as much about the occasion of social descent.
2 April 2016

No wonder I aren't the one

It is common knowledge that most ministers find their electoral promises untenable. This is why: they guarantee the unattainable. But I am beginning my subtle campaign with a pledge to fulfil some of the more simple undertakings.
26 March 2016
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This is not cricket. Or, is it?

He smiles say it all, not on our faces. The desire of the Indians to beat us (in cricket), their eagerness to prove a point after losing the
12 March 2016
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The penalty of success

One of my better lessons of life has been the understanding, and with good reason that, that if someone is upset with you, shows
5 March 2016
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The mad maddening election malaise

A SMS notification at two in the dead of the night would obviously, you think, be a text message of utmost importance, probably (pray
20 February 2016
Lawmakers lawbreakers

On emergency (?) duty

It is important to remember that every person's job is important to that person and to that person's near and dear ones. No one sweats to sell peanuts on the pavement for entertainment.
12 February 2016
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My dear motorcyclists

Salaam from the people, yes people, whom you almost ran over, whom you shoved off the footpath, beeped to deafness and pushed from behind as they sat on rickshaws.
7 February 2016
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Not fair at the fair

The meaning of the word bannijjo is nowhere more profound than at the annual fair that has returned habitually to the Sher-e-Bangla
30 January 2016
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Apples served badly

The valiant role of police in general in our War of Liberation, the distinctive valour with which some of them fought for the cause of our
16 January 2016
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Watch watching

Since long I have been intrigued by Desmond Morris's Manwatching (1977), admittedly one of the few books that I have gone through,
9 January 2016

Books, power and flyovers

There is no country in the world that gives away more than 33 crore books on New Year's Day, and that too for free, not even in the
2 January 2016

Trumpeting for votes

An awfully successful real estate mogul, an outrageously prosperous business magnate, a terribly popular TV host, a filthily rich golf
26 December 2015

Pagination

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