My Father's Tree

January 7 was my father's fourth death anniversary. He is buried at the graveyard at Dargah near the mausoleum of Hajrat Shah Jalal, a M...

Silence of the Fans

The World Cup has been in full swing for a few days. Looking for related street art I find myself in Sutrapur in old Dhaka. I have entered ...

Just What We Need

Oh brother! Some telecom company has a new slogan, "Talk More." Come on guys. This nation is all talk. Didn't you pay attentio...

A Strange Afternoon

A strange day yesterday. Around 4pm I went to the National Heart Foundation Hospital in Mirpur to visit a relative who had checked in for a ...

Memories of 7 March

March 7, 1971 seems a long time ago. While I have no memory of what I did on March 6 or March 8 of that year, I have a clear memory of the a...

Khaislot

There is a Bengali word, Khaislot , which means character but with a snide touch. You hear it used a lot in the same sentence as politicians...

Market Turmoil: View From Here

An article was floating around the other day suggesting Bangladesh will benefit from the current economic turmoil. It reminded me of the ear...

Good Cook, Bad Doctor

Our cook has been with us for almost a year now. Finding a person who can cook well is difficult in Dhaka. Problem is, those who can cook we...

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...