Monthly Archives: June, 2024

Note from the Executive Editor

During the July-August of this year, Bangladesh witnessed a major mass upsurge led by...

Proportional representation to reduce inequality and discrimination

The student-led anti-discrimination movement has brought an end to the long-standing Awami League government,...

Bangladesh’s external debt management: Some emerging concerns

Context and backdrop A country’s external debts obligations include debts incurred by the government, including...

Golden Bengal: Myth or reality

The National Anthem of Bangladesh, a poem by the Nobel Laureate Poet Rabindranath Tagore,...

Bangladesh’s Role in the BIMSTEC

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) was formed...

Reflections on initiating computer literacy in Pirkhain

I am an expatriate Bangladeshi living abroad for many years. I visit Bangladesh from...

Join us in Bangladesh’s development journey

Bangladesh has already shown a tremendous development track record since 1971. For a brief...

Empowering Bangladesh’s working women: A long way to go

Financial independence of working women is a crucial element in societal progress, fostering empowerment...

Threatened amphibians of Bangladesh

Amphibians are small cold-blooded vertebrates (vertebrates have backbones) that do not have scales. They...

Lest we forget Dr. Abdul Haq

Dr. Abdul Haq was one of a kind who dedicated all his life in...

Life of a Bangladeshi in Rome

Millions of Bangladeshis migrate to different parts of the world and work in different...

2024 Boishakhi Melas, Dallas, Texas

“এসো হে বৈশাখ, এসো, এসো” – With this song of Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore, Bengalis...

A visit to Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace

In August 2023, I traveled to William Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon (henceforth called Stratford), England,...