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Afsan Chowdhury

Before answering to that question, I suppose we should ask, if we take our education system seriously. Learning is one thing and education is another. Learning is a lifelong process and takes many routes but education is a more specific activity. It qualifies a person to be able to do something which will lead to ...

When cricketers make more sense than politicians

Afsan Chowdhury

After the thrashing Australia gave to the Indian side at Pune one would have expected Kohli and company to say all kinds of stuff and blame everyone else except themselves. However, instead of that Kohli has been marvelous and stated that the pitches are not to blame but the batsmen are. "We did our worst ...

Before February 21, 1952

Afsan Chowdhury

It was appropriate that the language movement was centred on the Dhaka university which stood to lose the most if the state language would become Urdu alone. The movement was not for the rights of mother language but that of the state language status and hence of the government.There was not much that could be ...

Occupational hazards

Afsan Chowdhury

The attack on the journalists was inevitable. This is not adversarial but systemic. Journalists have been pushed into this situation because of the nature of the profession. So, trade forces the employed to report on the misdeeds of the powerful when the journalist is oneself powerless. But journalists are prisoners of their professional call and ...

He played his innings, got some decent runs

Afsan Chowdhury

Suranjit Sengupta passed away on Saturday, Feb 4, after having battled blood cancer for more than a year. It was a personal blow for me as I knew him as a senior friend and mentor whom I held in great affection for more than three decades. Another bond with our shared collective past is broken ...

Hatirjheel: Poor women’s jhupris burn while BGMEA stands

Afsan Chowdhury

It's such an interesting event that occurred earlier this week in the caverns of Hatirjheel, Dhaka's urban paradise of sorts for the middle class. It appears that an elderly woman of extreme poverty had the impudence of building a jhupri right inside Hatirjheel. No big deal house but of course it was a hovel, a ...

Why Trump is right about media

Afsan Chowdhury

I feel very close to Trump. He reminds me of many of our politicians and the powerful. As someone who has been a serial journalist for over 4 decades I feel a pull towards him. He says and talks like so many of our leaders. How many times have we been called thieves and liars, ...

Srabon and a successful winter resistance

Afsan Chowdhury

A successful resistance was led by a section of Dhaka's cultural and media activists against Bangla Academy's decision to ban publishing house Srabon from the Ekushey Boi mela for two years. It was intended to punish Srabon for protesting the ban, arrest and such actions against those who had published a book considered hurtful to ...