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Playwright Selim Al Deen

Saymon Zakaria :Selim Al Deen (1949-2008) playwright, teacher, was born on 18 August 1949 in the village Senerkhil under coastal Sonagazi upazila, Feni. His father Mofizuddin Ahmed was a Deputy Superintendent of Customs. His...

Book Review

The Rebel. Original: Bidrohi by Kazi Nazrul Islam. Translator: Anis Fatema. Publisher: Farid Sayed. Ganer Kobi Praner Kobi Nazrul) 4/1 R.K. Mission Road, Dhaka-1203, Bangladesh. Date of Publication: June 21, 2019/Ashar 7, 1426/ Shawal...

The Pavement dwellers

Syed Ashique Mahmood :Thirty -five percent of the urban population in Bangladesh is poor. By urban poor we usually mean the working people with a very scanty income and the slum dwellers as well....

The Pavement dwellers

Contd from page 4 :the rights of the Pavement dwellers. In collaboration with the advocacy and networking organization Coalition for the Urban Poor (CUP) and the government partner organisation the Dhaka city corporation Amrao...

Don’t worry, be happy

Md Altaf Hussain :We are constantly bombarded with messages about how to be happy, but are it really attainable? For thousands of years we have looked to religion, philosophy and science for the answer...