The Stories of "Killing the Water"

Killing the Water is a collection of twelve short stories by Mahmud Rahman published by Penguin Books. The author is a native of Bangladesh...

Moving Back: Child's Point of View

NRB parents who are thinking of moving back: the essay at the bottom of this page might be of interest.

Can We Make Them Stay?

In March 2006, in the middle of my tenure at DataSoft (a Dhaka software company), we found ourselves searching for a pre-Sales Engineer - so...

Numbers

Ever since rice prices went through the roof, a set of numbers have made their way around my head. Price of 1 kg of rice: Tk 28 ->30 -...

A Good Father

A main reason I returned to Bangladesh in 2005 after three decades abroad was so I could spend time with my aging father. Four days ago my f...

Bangla Signs in Singapore

Singapore has many Bangladeshis. I understand once it was 250,000 but the number has decreased because now they are also hiring from Thailan...

NRB Disillusionments

During my recent trip to Silicon Valley, I repeatedly asked my Non Resident Bangladeshi friends to at least think about working in Bd. So, h...

Bank Experience

Some days ago, I had to go to a (govt) bank for some business. This is not my "normal" bank, but my Father maintains his account t...

Laptop Repair

One of our laptops had an, erm, accident. Water was spilled on the keyboard. It refused to power up after that. We tried to dry it out for s...