It’s now the responsibility of the youth to dig through that history and feel proud.
Why do students fear maths? There's much more to maths than numeracy.
Ancient societies were agrarian. From farmers at the bottom to zamindars and kings at the top, everybody depended on a good harvest. The word harvest derives from the Old English hærfest which means autumn. The autumn harvest was usually the largest harvest of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The weather was neither warm nor cold. Everybody prayed to the heavens for manna (sustenance) to fall. When manna did fall, there would be feast and festivity. When manna didn't fall, it could spell disaster for everybody.
Sadly, not all religious festivals are accommodated with breathing space.
I can safely proclaim that one of the hazards of teaching is checking exam scripts.
Ever since I started living in Dhaka, I feel suffocated.
Letters of recommendation and what you need to know about them.
Childhood is fantasised in most cultures. In the West, Mum and Dad read Grimm’s Fairy Tales or Hans Christian Anderson. In Bangladesh, Mum and Dad read Dakshinaranjan Mitra’s Thakurmar Jhuli.
Rafael, my housemate at Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, asked me one day if I had watched Cinema Paradiso. When I said no, Rafael looked at me in silence for a moment. ‘Tomorrow’s the last day, they’re screening Cinema Paradiso at the Arts Theatre. Do watch. You’ll like it’.
Muhammad Ali said, “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain”.
