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  Stretches of open space that make the mind

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on January 08, 2021

  A WALK straight into the Teacher-Student Centre up the farthest point — under the butterfly canopy, with the lawn and the cafeteria to the left...

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  The royal road to results

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on October 09, 2020

  WHEN I was taking my bachelor’s examinations in the English literature in the University of Dhaka in July 1993, one day as I finished walking...

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  A conspicuous absence of connectivity

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on July 20, 2020

  ON AN October afternoon in 2001, as I was leaving the central library of the University of Dhaka after interviewing a librarian, who was showing...

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  No space for vilification in a decided breach of trust

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on June 20, 2020

  THE adult spy-thriller Masud Rana is no longer solely Qazi Anwar Hossain’s. Not at least 260 of the novels. Not solely because a dispute running...

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  The problem of combination

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on February 21, 2020

  IT HAS almost been a decade since we started hearing of a combined admission test, centrally managed, which relevant authorities have at times called either...