Selim Jahan

With regard to the notion of human development, Mahbub used to stress three fundamental points.

Rabindranath once said, “The relationship between the village and the city should be like that between the inner house and the outer house of a home.

Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is widely known as the “Rebel Poet”, but he was also a profound “Poet of Equality”. Nazrul’s ideas about equality emerged from the realities of his own life.

Eid-ul-Azha is, without a doubt, a festival of joy. It is also at the centre of a wide range of economic activities, i.e. the demand and supply of sacrificial animals, various rituals associated with the sacrifice itself, a seasonal leather market driven by the animal hides produced, Eid shopping, etc.

Rabindranath pointed to one particular path for rural advancement: the strategy of a cooperative approach.

Universal human development requires dismantling systemic barriers and aligning policy with the 2030 Agenda for global inclusion.

The greatest wealth of a nation is neither its geographical size, nor its natural resources, but its skilled young human resources.

All these phenomena not only impact the environmental sustainability of our planet, but also affect the global inequality and instability.