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Briefly on Diego Maradona

Abib AfzalNovember 26, 2020 December 10, 2020 Sports 0

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

Necrophilia in Bangladesh

Abib AfzalNovember 22, 2020 November 22, 2020 Other 0

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

The Booker Prize 2020

Abib AfzalNovember 20, 2020 November 26, 2020 Book 0

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.

Bangladeshi Child Sadat Rahman wins 2020 International Children Peace Prize

Abib AfzalNovember 15, 2020 November 15, 2020 Education 0

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

A Glimpse of “Durga Puja” Story and Mythology

Abib AfzalOctober 20, 2020 October 20, 2020 Other 0

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

Indira Nehru Becoming Indira Gandhi

Abib AfzalOctober 14, 2020 November 26, 2020 Politics 0

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

Louise Glück

Abib AfzalOctober 13, 2020 October 13, 2020 Book 1

It is certainly very difficult to write something, whether in details or in briefs, about a Nobel Laureate. And if it is to be written by someone amateurish like me, it will prove to be impossible. And it becomes even more difficult if that Nobel Laureate wins the Nobel Prize

Extinction Rebellion

Abib AfzalSeptember 24, 2020 November 26, 2020 Politics 0

I first came across this term while reading a synopsis of a book named Althusser, a novel written by Mashrur Arefin. I started to read more about the term online. This rebellion is about climate and ecological change. I found this, like many other, rebellion in the form of civil

Bibliotherapy

Abib AfzalSeptember 19, 2020 September 19, 2020 Health 0

I had been feeling very restless for the last couple of weeks. I could not sleep and if I could that after long hours of changing sides to feel finally relaxed. It must have something to do with COVID -19 I conclude. But in reality it was happening because I

Meritocracy

Abib AfzalSeptember 9, 2020 September 10, 2020 Education 0

Many of you might have been familiar with this term for a long time. But in my case, it might be one or two years I first came across this term. When I first came across the term the meaning and implication was not that clear to me. I didn’t