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• (HuffPo Original) A Sweet Iftar Morsel From Dhaka

  By Adnan Firoze on July 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  I would prefer that you read my article in the original Huffington Post page but please do stay around and browse through The Windbag. Ramadan is a month of abstinence for Muslims. People practice mercy, compassion and rigorous fasting. They do… Read More ›

• I am the 13-year-old boy who was brutally murdered on camera to be posted on Facebook yesterday: My Unwritten Letters

  By Adnan Firoze on July 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  These following four letters are for the leaders of the world, the camera photographer who shot my 28 minutes long lynching, Mr. Mark Zuckerberg and the Bangladeshi media.  Context: http://www.thedailystar.net/country/punishment-or-brutality-111439 To honor the dead, especially a minor, no graphic picture will… Read More ›

• (HuffPo Original) Poor Man’s Sciences: The Survival of Dhaka

  By Adnan Firoze on July 8, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  I would prefer that you read my article in the original Huffington Post page but please do stay around and browse through The Windbag.   To function in Dhaka, you need to be privy to certain scientific processes. Sounds absurd? Not… Read More ›

• [Slideshow] No Money, no Eid Shopping, no Customer – Eid 2015, Bangladesh

  By Adnan Firoze on July 3, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Photos: Adnan Firoze With the scarcity of expendable income this Ramadan (2015), the lower-middle-class consumers are at home. Consequently, the hawkers catering to the semi-marginalized class is frustrated. (Location: Mohakhali Bazar; City:Dhaka; Country: Bangladesh; Date July 2, 2015) I’m sure,… Read More ›

• (HuffPo Original) Faces Of The Bangladeshi Economy

  By Adnan Firoze on July 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Original Huffington Post Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.in/adnan-firoze/faces-of-the-bangladeshi-_b_7693354.html I would prefer that you read my article in the original Huffington Post page but please do stay around and browse through The Windbag. I live in New York for educational purposes; however unlike many who have… Read More ›

• Astoria Cove – Mayor de Blasio’s First Attempt to Affordable Housing Faces Concerns

  By Adnan Firoze on September 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Mayor Bill de Blasio’s ambitious affordable housing plan is put to its first test by the Astoria Cove housing project. The project is to receive its first progress report from the City Planning Commission tomorrow, September 29, at the wake… Read More ›

• City Council to Consider Community Notification of Gun Offender Registry

  By Adnan Firoze on August 29, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

    New York Council Member Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria) introduced a bill guaranteeing community access and notification requirement within the city’s gun offender registry on August 21, 2014. Council members Paul Vallone, Ritchie Torres and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr…. Read More ›

• The Ways @SlackHQ Greets You – Slacky Fortune #Cookies

  By Adnan Firoze on May 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  One day at 2AM I decided to go on Slack and Slack told me to go to bed. Ironically, I did.  Then it occurred to me, wait, what? So, here is a collection of things you should do that Slack… Read More ›

• Heavy Metal to be inducted into academia: Shakib Chowdhury of Cryptic Fate shares his views

  By Adnan Firoze on December 27, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Official Link (edited and shortened version): The Daily Star – Star Campus Photo Courtesy: Cryptic Fate and Shafayet Chowdhury The news that has taken the music enthusiasts by storm is the recent announcement of the academic undergraduate degree in Heavy… Read More ›

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