16 December 1971 is the most important day in the history of Bangladesh. On that day the Pakistani Army surrendered all its modern arms along with 92,000 soldiers. The day was named Bijoy Dibash (Victory Day). Bangladesh established the independent and sovereign People’s Republic of Bangladesh. But the achievement came with a huge price.There was […]
(Cold) War on Tourism
London, December 7, 2007. Osama Bin Laden has won. He has succeeded in turning the governments of the world against tourism and re-ignited the Cold War. This is a tragedy, because tourism is sacred. It is the modern equivalent of the pilgrimage. It is the moment when we “suspend the pursuit of profit” to take pleasure in nature, […]
African Vision for Citizen-Generated Media
In 2006, Time Magazine ranked "You" as the Person of the Year, implying that anyone — including you and me — now had the power to produce media content. Citing the shift from institutions to individuals in media content creation, Time named anyone using or creating content on the World Wide Web as their 2006 […]
African Trade Unionism: A New Face
Two regional trade union organisations, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions-Africa Regional Organisation (ICFTU-AFRO) and Democratic Organisation of African Workers Trade Unions (DOAWTU) that merged into Independent National Trade Union Centres within the African region (ITUC-AFRICA) on Wednesday November 28, 2007 met in Accra-Ghana. They will forever relish the memory of the desire to […]
The changing life-style and thinking of East
The changing life-style and thinking of East. The Americanisation is the fate of world –people in changing time of Third-World are drawn with utmost pull. The mercantile life pattern, global unification of markets, affluent reflection of West’s wealthy day-pass, loss of Victorian morality along with a high spirit to achieve the horizon ,untouchable in […]
Convocation
I decided not to publish this article written last Spring because the collective pain of the Blacksburg massacre was too raw. But with the Supreme Court weighing in on the issue of the Second Amendment, I now feel compelled to speak. * * * * * Dobbs Ferry, New York 10522. The massacre at Virginia […]
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