Archive for January, 2008
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 317 views
I found this incredible article on DesPardes and I recommend both Bangladeshis and Pakistanis to carefully read this.
The Fall of Dhaka was sudden and abrupt. As late as December 15th 1971, my pro-Pakistan friends kept saying that the Seventh Fleet of the US Navy was on its way and as ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008 329 views
According to rediff:
"There are over 500 Bangladeshi jawans in the village and many others are reportedly approaching the border areas. However, there are only around 50 BSF jawans in the area around the intruded village. According to the villagers, the 20 BSF jawans at the outpost were drunk during the ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008 225 views
Bangladesh is one of the few countries that has close to all of the inhabitants, about 98% of the country, to be one ethnicity. Unlike India and Pakistan there aren't any ethnic clashes other than against indigenous tribal people and the Bengali invaders. After the 1971 liberation war, ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008 335 views
While Zia and Hasina argue and blame each for Bangladesh problems like little girls, their butt buddies underneath them secretly take money away from the treasury. Tareque Rahman, Zia's son, (Tarque Zia) goes around telling the Bangladeshis that he's mother is the prime minister so they should pay up ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008 934 views
Is it possible? Can this ever happen? Is this a lie? Apparently this is no lie. Britney Spears has been torn apart ever since Kevin Federline dumped her and took half of her fortune plus her kids. She became very vulnerable and as her mind weakened and became ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 299 views
Nazeel Azami, a Bangladeshi born, has risen to be a famous nasheed singer, based in the UK. His mom influenced him to resonate his voice in a soothing manner from childhood as he was taught to recite Bengali songs and Bengali poems. Nazeel is the first Bangladeshi to ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 277 views
BRAC has made tremendous developments for Bangladesh. Over the three decades BRAC with the Grameen Bank has made significants annihilation of poverty. BRAC, which stands for Bangladesh Rural Advancement Communities, has combined education, microcredit, health improvements, and liberation of women to all work together and alleviate poor people ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008 407 views
Tahsan, who is a member of Black, and Mithila, who is a model, who both are also a married couple, sang this nice song in an Eid program on nTV. A small handful of critics accuse them of being worthless singers but I think they are a great duo ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008 224 views
Bangladesh has so many problems and it's hard for any government, corrupt or not, to deal with them. It's always up to the bureaucracy to solve and take care of all of the 145 million Bangladeshis. But it shouldn't be up to the government to provide everything to ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008 355 views
I have strong love for Assamese songs and I found this nice video from one of the movies. As mentioned in previous posts, Assamya (the language) can be understood by most Bangla speakers. The video will show how similar Assamese entertainment is to Bangla entertainment. Bengali directors ...
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