Charlottesville (Part 1)
Before I moved here, I heard a lot of good things about the city – its green rolling hills and perfect fall foliage, its old small-town flavor and charming pedestrian mall, its nooks and
Nusrat Jahan
A Primary School in Rural Bangladesh – Miniature Version of Our Broken System
Very recently, the World Bank has elevated Bangladesh to the category of lower-middle income countries. Well and good. Indeed, keeping aside increasing religious fanaticism, the progress in Bangladesh has been quite remarkable in
The Untimely Death of My Nana and Our Loss – Perspective of a Grandchild Who Never Met Him
Perhaps I knew since I was a baby that my Nana, my mom’s dad, passed away a year before I was born, at just forty-something. I learned that the old harmonium that
My Wandering Life
In his essay Home-Coming, E. B. White wrote “familiarity is the thing – the sense of belonging”. Reading this, I reflected for some time about my current state of belongingness. Where do I belong?
'উন্নতির মানসিকতা' কি, শিশুদের এই মানসিকতা গড়ে তোলা কেন জরুরী এবং কিভাবে আমরা তা করতে পারি?
ব্যক্তিগত একটা গল্প দিয়ে শুরু করা যাক। আমি আগে বেশ কয়েকবার বিদেশী ভাষা শিখতে গিয়ে লজ্জাজনকভা
Obstacles Faced by the Poor - The Case of Education
When I was a college student, I remember watching a movie about a homeless girl who made it to Harvard. It was a true story. It made me cry; yet I wondered if
Right People in the Right Place
The data from the first round was messy because of the flaws in questionnaire design. In this fish value chain research, there was no way to find out how much fish is sold,
You Cannot Eat Potential
So, after substantially correcting the disorganized questionnaire from the first round, our second round of data collection for the fish value chain research has started. We are hopeful that this time the data
A Beauty Yet to Be Discovered
I am not an adventure traveler. Adrenaline rush is never strong enough to persuade me to take up those crazy activities like Bungee jumping and white water rafting. I like to take in
Experiencing the Rural Life in Barotse Floodplain
Though rural life is somewhat romanticized by townsfolk, in reality it can rather be nightmarish for them. In a few days they would start feeling empty to be away from all the hustle-bustle
Barotse Floodplain of the Great Zambezi
The specialty of Mongu is sand. When we entered Mongu, the capital of the Western Province of Zambia, we did not find anything special about this place. It is exactly like a typical
Johannesburg- a City of Golden Hearts
It is not really my first time in Johannesburg. But the last time I came, it was not really a visit. It was just a official trip for an hour or so to