FSTalk Recap: How to generate ideas
During last FS Talk registration we asked our attendees to submit three questions to our speakers on ‘what it takes to start & make it happen’. We received loads of questions concerning various issues of starting-up and FSTalk speakers answered them from their experience brilliantly. One of the populous questions was ‘how to generate ideas’....
Registration for ‘FS Talk’ is oepn now: Let’s start and make it happens
Registration for first ‘FS Talk’ [stands for Future StartUp talk]-a signature event of Future StartUp, is open now. Registration is available only online and the last date is March 27, 2013 [ 3:00 pm, BD time]. Before applying please check about and event details page. ‘FS Talk’ is a small, friendly gathering aimed at the...
Film Industry of Bangladesh: A Business Contemplation
Though the study of Film as a discipline started around 1960s, the debate whether a movie is a piece of art or not began much earlier. A group of academicians favor the term “Film” over “Movie” and recognize it as a piece of Art. But a great number of practitioners and academicians regard it as...
Middle Class Bhadralok (Gentleman) Culture Vs Entrepreneurship
My Father, a retired government employee, wants me to be a BCS Cadre. He has been insisting and trying to convince me to apply for Preliminary exam of BCS for last two years. When I discuss this issue with him, simply I do politics. Most of the time I win .Secret is that I discuss...
Remembering Begum Rokeya: a trailblazer in the rights, education and modernization of Bengali Muslim women.
We are about to celebrate ‘International Women’s Day’ on March 8, with a vision to ensure a more equal world regardless of gender, to ensure Justice, dignity, hope for daughters everywhere. In this very moment we remember our very own and beloved writer, women rights activist and educationist, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932), lovingly known as...
Remembering Akhteruzzaman Elias: “I would rather be guilty of what I do than what I don’t do”
It took Akhtaruzzaman Elias (1943-1997), born in this month, February 12, 1943, to write only two novels and 22 short stories to be an obligatory part of the history of Bangle literature. Elias’ s insight into the subtle shades of human character, his application of physical and psychological detail, his ardent sense of wit and...
Online Activism: Amplifying the Power of Youth
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, one of the most popular and honored writers and teachers of Bangladesh, once discouraged young generation to involve in social media activities. But after the mass uprising of February, 2013, centering Shahbag, Projonmo Chattar, led by bloggers and online activists demanding capital punishment for the War Criminals of 1971-Liberation war, he applauded...
Advices for first & second year University Students or for 21 years olds
“Our whole theory of education is based on the absurd notion that we must learn to swim on land before tackling the water. It applies to the pursuit of the arts as well as to the pursuit of knowledge.”~ Henry Miller I thought more than twice before putting pen on this column. And after a...
Remembering Siddika Kabir: The Queen Mother of Bangladeshi Cuisine
In a country like Bangladesh almost every women cook to relish her family throughout her life. But a woman took the cooking up to an art. She brought innovation in traditional culinary and made them as relishing as you wish, sometimes, more than your wish. While switching on Television people watched her guiding someone or...
Remembering Aaron Swartz: We need to take care of each other
For last one week one of the events that moved me deeply & clouded my heart with unknown sadness is unexpected death of internet and open-access activist Aaron Swartz. I never heard of Aaron until he took his life last week after relentlessly and unscrupulously prosecuted for the last two years for making academic journal...
Steve Jobs: A portrait of vision,innovation and success (part 3)
This story is published in 3 parts. You can get part 1 and part 2 Now it’s iPod However the greatest momentum for Apple came from an unexpected source: the iPod. iPod’s breakthrough features — it’s beautiful design, its brilliant user interface and click wheel, its fast FireWire connectivity and its ability to sync with iTunes...
Steve Jobs: A portrait of vision,innovation and success (part 2)
This story is published in 3 parts.The 1st part covers the story of Steve’s childhood, growing up and background machinery to be an entrepreneur You can get part 1 here Time of Struggle Although Mac’s first months were encouraging, sales soon started to plummet. There was growing fear in the company that this third flop...
