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  A variance by a day

  Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on February 14, 2020

  THE Bangla month of Phalgun, the harbinger of spring, has always been feted in literature. But the first of Phalgun has never been a day...

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  A collective failure that explodes into Chawk Bazar fire

  Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on February 23, 2019

  AS ALL was being readied for the observance of Shaheed Dibas, which marks February 21, 1952, the language movement that set out people’s journey towards...

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  Editorial words that define 2018

  Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on January 10, 2019

  A word frequency check run on about a hundred and ninety thousand words in more than 300 editorials and more than 20 essays published in...

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  Editors take to the streets

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on October 17, 2018

  EDITORS of more than a dozen daily newspapers stood, lining along the footpath, in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Monday....

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  Being slangy at the time of protests

  Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:05am on August 07, 2018

  ‘RÉFORME mon cul’ — reform my a**e (which is usually translated with a comma after the word ‘reform’ but some say that it is best...

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  A hands-on editor dies

  Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on August 04, 2018

  IT CAME as a shock in the evening on Wednesday. I came to know the night before that AHM Moazzem Hossain, the founder editor of...

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  The defeat of state managers in road regime

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on August 03, 2018

  CHINESE premier Zhao Ziyang, in his memoir Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang, based on a series of about 30...

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  About half an hour on a U-loop

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:00am on August 01, 2018

  IT WAS 9:30pm on Saturday. The U-loop at the Badda end of Hatirjheel had just been opened....

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  Results overshadow competences

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:05am on May 20, 2018

  THE results of secondary public examinations, Secondary School Certificate and other equivalent examinations in the vocational and madrassah streams, have been out, having the pass...

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  Memories of a childhood read

  by Abu Jar M Akkas | Updated at 12:05am on April 23, 2018

  THE book lay there for someone to pick up, on the stack of used books, old, scribbled, dog-eared, with spines loosening off, un-covered, moth-eaten and...