I walk. I try to enforce the rule—I must walk to any distance shorter than three kilometres, even if I have access to alternatives. As I walk, the paths accumulate memories. They become ingrained in the mental map of the city. Probably the most vivid of all meta memory of footpaths are the ones with …
The war of burgers 🍔 in Dhaka is intense. It is a verily controversial topic, and people are often deeply emotional or indoctrinated about their choices 🤓 The common tendency of local restaurants is to transform everything into a torkari. They did the same with burgers. They introduced this jhol and jhal that messed everything …
বাংলাদেশে ধর্ষণের বিচারে মাত্র ৩% মামলায় এ পর্যন্ত অপরাধী সাজা পেয়েছে। এর একটা বড় কারণ অপরাধ প্রমাণের জন্য আলামতের অভাব, সেই সাথে আইনের দুর্বলতা। যে হারে এই অপরাধ বাড়ছে, তাতে দুঃখজনকভাবে আমাদের আশেপাশেই যে কেউ ধর্ষণের শিকার হতে পারেন। এমন ভয়াবহ ঘটনার পর আমরা মানসিক বিপর্যয় থেকে অনেক ভুল করতে পারি। ধর্ষিত ব্যক্তিকে সাহায্য করা, …
[Last updated on 19 March 2020] Some random trivial language issues in Bengali and English in local and international context, I keep adding to this post whenever I come across new words and phrases that may have completely different meaning in various local contexts 🙂 Spicy (global)Please do not use the words “spicy” and “hot” …
When the teachers may have separated you from your friends and made you sit far apart, you have to find a way to still communicate urgent matters to your friends during the class! A technic of communication that has to be subtle, discrete, and ideally without sending or receiving any physical object. Yeah, passing a …
[Photo © Abdul Momin] History is a philosophical and political statement or opinion, and it is invariably incomplete. It is never absolute, and will always invoke a range of responses, from outright rejection to enthusiastic support, depending on who the narrator, and who the readers are. We have learned to accept the incompleteness of history …
The existence and use of the word ‘culture’ has a fundamental problem. It is inherently selfish and the brewing ground of stereotypes. The word culture, quickly makes us self-conscious, defensive and proud. We jump into defining the boundaries of it and desperately try to promote its uniqueness. I want to question the fundamental necessity of …
Trump is an unfortunate accident, no matter what. But the question is whether it was a planned accident or it just happened and slipped through the cracks of democracy? The first few chapters of Fire and Fury indicates that the campaign didn’t even want to win the election! They were genuinely surprised by the win …
That’s my daily elixir of life and work. Coffee. I can’t live without. Ever since North End started roasting beans here in Dhaka, the whole coffee scene changed. Now if you look carefully, it’s whole beans from North End stored inside a blasphemous Nescafe jar! And right beside it the ubiquitous french-press. Thank god, beans …
Dark chocolate + coffee, the combination couldn’t be any better! I never tried a Magnum chocolate before, they are not very popular/known here. The taste is very good! Although the texture is a little odd due to its 3% cocoa nibs content, I like smoother options. It’s a 50% cocoa solids bar, with 45g sugar …