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• “Ramadan Mubarak” says Colonel Sanders

  By Adnan Firoze on July 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Official link: http://www.dhakacourier.com.bd/?p=6946 No one says “Ramadan Mubarak” better than Colonel Sanders. As the holy month closes in and before the writer gets his nerves slit by fundamentalists, Adnan Firoze writes. Allah’s apostle (pbuh) would be extremely agitated while us… Read More ›

• Library and Formal Education: Friends or Foes?

  By Adnan Firoze on June 12, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Original Article: http://www.dhakacourier.com.bd/?p=5630 In 1912, Promoth Choudhury – the acclaimed writer, critic and close acquaintance of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore said, “Libraries are more important to the education system than the institutions such as schools, colleges and universities.” Many contemporary… Read More ›

• Walton Primo NX Handset – User Experience and Review [VIDEO]

  By Adnan Firoze on May 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Walton is no Apple or Samsung but finally a Bangladeshi brand has posed a formidable place in the smartphone arena. The Walton line of smartphones use the same technology used in the brands that are better known; however they do… Read More ›

• Dhaka+20: Bangladeshi youths draft UN resolution

  By Adnan Firoze on May 19, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Original/Official URL: http://www.dhakacourier.com.bd/?p=6122 Dhaka witnessed the most solemn youth summit in regards to diplomacy and sustainable development on the May 11 and 12, 2012, through Dhaka+20 Model United Nations Conference. Being above par of regular youth conventions, it did not… Read More ›

• Sights and Sounds of Barisal

  By Adnan Firoze on May 7, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  After a hiatus of several years, last Saturday (May 4, 2013), I hopped on a ‘ship’ that we call ‘launch’ named “Sundarban-5” at Shadar Ghaat, Dhaka and headed off to Barisal to drop my sister at her medical school. Not… Read More ›

• Gadgets for Artists in Bangladesh

  By Adnan Firoze on September 9, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Official Link (where the ‘Staff Writer’ was me): http://www.dhakacourier.com.bd/?p=7812 Not that the days of the easel and the oil paints are over, a new dimension has certainly come into existence in the art world. With the advent of technology and… Read More ›

• Social Media bids farewell to FOUR ‘Armstrong’s

  By Adnan Firoze on September 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  by Adnan Firoze The unthinkable has happened! The passing of the first man on the moon – the great Neil Armstrong on August 25, 2012 (at the age of 82) is not necessarily unthinkable. The hero who inspired generations was… Read More ›

• The Noise of Music: A Prose to the Guru

  By Adnan Firoze on June 9, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  Official Link: http://www.dhakacourier.com.bd/?p=6377 No! I am not among those who relegate contemporary music as harsh noise and celebrate the bygone era of Eric Clapton, Runa Laila or J.S. Bach. I love heavy metal music while I enjoy the occasional subtleties… Read More ›

• Testing Times for the Post Office (cover-story)

  By Adnan Firoze on May 1, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Original Link in Publication: http://www.dhakacourier.com.bd/?p=5095 The red, green and blue  mail boxes stand like tombstones in front of the post offices in Dhaka and even before the Dhaka GPO. But Adnan Firoze discovers there is life in the venerable institution yet.   Hasibul… Read More ›

• Bangladesh – Pride and Humility

  By Adnan Firoze on February 9, 2012 • ( 2 )

  (2008)  “Oh my Bengal of Gold, I love you”   The two first lines by Tagore from the national anthem of Bangladesh may be the tackiest yet the most appropriate identity of Bangladesh. Just like the title suggests,Bangladeshis a small… Read More ›

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