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My total posts: 18
Writing since May 2020
Today I have finished reading The Archer of Paulo Coelho. I started the read yesterday. It’s a small book of around 130 pages with some beautiful illustrations in it. I could not appreciate the full beauty of these illustrations because I had bought this particular print of the book from
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Today 23rd April is celebrated as the International Day of the Book worldwide. This day is also called World Book and Copyright Day or simply World Book Day. This day is celebrated every year with a specific theme across the world organized by UNESCO. ‘To share a story’ has been
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Like the previous year, this year too we are seeing the suffering and misery of the poorer section of our population due to lockdown. Last year we have seen how people were leaving Dhaka as they have either lost their jobs or due to lockdown it was getting very hard
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“Dear Mujizah” is a three minutes long short video made by Sharmin Chowdury on the UNESCO World Heritage site “Shait Gambuj Mosque” in Bagherhat, Bangladesh. This documentary has won second place in the Heritage Minutes short video contest -2021, organized by Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF),an umbrella youth organization from
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I didn’t have a chance to watch Maradona playing live as I was only seven years old when his active playing ended on around 1997. He was banned in 1994 as he tested positive of drugs during USA World Cup. Maradona has played actively from 1976 to 1997 in different teams
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Recently, like many other I have come across a news report on a boy who works at a morgue in one of the public hospitals of Dhaka. He is allegedly engaged in having sexual intercourse with the dead bodies of girls and women sent to the morgue for autopsy. This
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Douglas Stuart, a Scottish author has won this year’s Booker Prize. The Booker Prize is considered as the most prestigious literary award of Britain. Every year this award is given for the best English language Fiction published in Britain. Stuart has been given the Prize for his debut novel Shuggie Bain.
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The International Children Peace Prize launched in 2005 by Kidsrights, a Netherland based Child Rights organization, is awarded annually. This year’s award has been given to Sadat Rahman, a 17 year old child from the district of Narail in Bangladesh. The award has been given to him for his innovative
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During my childhood days, I used to visit, as many as I could, sites of Durga Puja (Puja Mondop) as there were many Hindu families living around. One of my childhood Hindu friends was Ratan Robidas. Rabidases are one of many castes within Hindu caste system. They even have their
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I was reading some online materials just to make my understanding clear, once again, about the relationship between Nehru and Gandhi family, especially how Indira Nehru came to be known as Indira Gandhi. After reading those materials I thought to write down it to make my understanding even clearer. Indira Nehru
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