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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...