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  Tourism: is a thing of beauty or a curse forever?

  Ridwanul Haque | Updated at 12:00am on November 15, 2020

  ‘Here in Chimbuk, there is no single primary school, not even a government high school. How you preach development here, how you say that you...

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  Epidemics as the silent policy maker

  Ridwanul Haque | Updated at 12:00am on May 17, 2020

  Taking past epidemics and pandemics and authorities responses into account, Ridwanul Haque talks about political economy of epidemics

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  CORONATION OF THE CORONA : In between pestilence and apocalypse

  Ridwanul Haque | Updated at 12:00am on March 29, 2020

  While COVID-19 is wreaking havoc across the globe, media reports show how underprepared Bangladesh government is for the pandemic, despite having more than two months...

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  DEVELOPMENT: Tourism industry in CHT, at what cost?

  Ridwanul Haque | Updated at 12:00am on March 15, 2020

  Chittagong Hill Tracts, on the one hand, are becoming a major tourist attraction in Bangladesh and on the other hand, parties with business interests and...

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  DEVELOPMENT: The ghost in the CHT’s opera

  Ridwanul Haque | Updated at 12:00am on March 01, 2020

  Drawing from lifelong friendship with ethnic minority communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Ridwanul Haque writes about their unique knowledge system

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  EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR 2020: Saper Khamar by ‎Jahid Jogot‎

  Ridwanul Haque | Updated at 12:00am on February 09, 2020

  JAHID Jogot is an ambitious writer, a prisoner of conscience and his writing style steers different anti-autogolpe stance. He travelled a lot to grass-root areas,...

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  Education and promises of demographic dividend

  Ridwanul Haque | Updated at 12:00am on December 15, 2019

  Education empowers people and can change the society. What types of educational improvement should get preference can also be vital in different phases of a...

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  Military and business: the case of Pakistan

  Ridwanul Haque | Updated at 12:00am on November 24, 2019

  Writer Ayesha Siddiqa coins the term ‘Milbus’ which grossly translates into business involvements of military. She argues from the professional standpoint, the armed forces’ exposure...

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  Manufacturing misrepresentation: from colonial time to Rohingyas

  Ridwanul Haque | Updated at 12:00am on November 10, 2019

  In order to dominate and repress a group of people, power quarters have resorted to policies of defaming and ‘othering’ of targeted communities. Since colonial...

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  The political economy of Dhaka centrism

  Ridwanul Haque | Updated at 12:00am on October 27, 2019

  There are no nearby visible rich agricultural activities but there are several research centres for agricultural research in Khamarbari. It is sheer planned centralisation. And...