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Virtual media: The invisible guardian and mentor

Ahmed Tahsin Shams

Bangladesh has cut a good figure in adopting digital tools in daily lives. Yet, many parents of earlier generation consider high-techs, like: 'smart' phone, electronic notebook, laptops, technical gadgets, and above all internet, as 'Satan's Box'. Therefore, it is perceived even in 2017 in Dhaka: the capital, 2 out of 20 students are not allowed ...

Traffic of Truth

Dhaka: The city of paradoxes

Ahmed Tahsin Shams

Dhaka, if personified, will stand as: a postmodern hero having no 'heroic' features, and it is full of paradoxes. If Dhaka is a literary text, the city streets are crowded with walkers who never read the text. But, they all 'love' Dhaka blindly like lovers in each others' arms. That is why, in Dhaka, bookstalls ...

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Suicidal tales and the whales around…

Ahmed Tahsin Shams

Along with the heavy pour of rain, the country has been flooded with suicidal tales for the last few months. And most of the blames are being bestowed to the so called fake sites of 'Blue Whale Challenge' in Bangladesh. Depression of youth has been a great concern around the world, which Bangladesh is facing ...

'E' for education, 'M' for misery

Ahmed Tahsin Shams

An age-old maxim is known to the most: "There is nothing more uncommon than common sense". And, the system which perfectly paves way for this 'uncommon' notion is Bangladeshi education system. Here, teachers and job recruiters often face the crisis and therefore scream, "Have you lost your common sense?"Chronologically speaking, students in Bangladesh are not ...

A new era of 'feministic patriarchy'!

Ahmed Tahsin Shams

Domination based on gender is known as 'patriarchy', whether the action is done by a male or female. Nowadays, urbanization, satellite, and the notion of 'global village' pave 'progressiveness' in gender based thinking and gender roles in developing countries being inspired by economically progressed nations. Unfortunately, in Bangladeshi urban areas, to be specific in the ...

Cover Story

Literature: Potato in the curry of career

Ahmed Tahsin Shams

In Bangladesh, most of the students and parents have two notions regarding studying literature: firstly, book-reading -- novels, poems, drama, prose -- do not have any place in the contemporary job market. By the word 'job market', stereotypically 'standardized', it is meant: Three Bs (which are thrust upon power position): BCS, Banking, and Business. Secondly, ...

Reminiscing Nazrul

“I dance, as I desire, at own pleasure”

Ahmed Tahsin Shams

COVER STORYWriting on the Nazrul-like lifestyle, on the eve of our rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam's birth anniversary (May 25, 1899), is the toughest task I am assigned to till date. The Sad Lad (Dukhu Mia, Nazrul's nickname) of Bengal had a life of all styles---warrior, poetic, romantic, spiritual. And at the end of the ...

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No more gender-genocide!

Ahmed Tahsin Shams

The recent Banani rape case hints how far we are from achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)! Because it’s State’s responsibility to mechanise its legal system, and to ensure security of all gender. Certainly, Bangladesh is ahead in gender equity among SAARC countries, according to a report of Gender Inequality ...

Baishakhi memoirs on my scribble pad…

Ahmed Tahsin Shams

Tomorrow, my pillow will cuddle me longer, my fingers will not meet his beloved keyboard, and my eyes will rest more than usual. Because of two-folded one reason: holiday---Friday, as well as a new day, a new year in Bangla calendar, a new journey of 1424.Under the veils of Dhaka-routine, I hardly feel cozy to ...

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Thoughts on genocide

Ahmed Tahsin Shams

Past is history only when it can be revisited. And when genocide revisits, it seems an alarm-clock to wake up citizens. The merry-go round celebration, of any event, proves our oblivion nature. Then, those dark-days turn out as past, not history. Worldwide, the recent catastrophes are terrifying us, though we forget soon as one ends, ...