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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...