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13/04/2022

তিন চাকরি এই বয়সেই!

সুলতান পত্রিকা বেচে সকালে, বিকেলে ফল বিক্রি করে; মাঝের সময়টাতে চায়ের দোকানে বয়ের কাজ করে।

অসুস্থ বাবা-মায়ের ঔষধ থেকে শুরু করে সকাল-বিকালের খাবার নিশ্চিত করতে অমানুষিক শ্রম দিয়ে যায়।

এর মাঝেও সে স্কুলে যায়। নয়টা বাজলে ভালো কাপড় পরে বইখাতা নিয়ে হাজিরা দেয় বিদ্যানন্দের প্রথম শ্রেণীতে।

খুব মনোযোগী এই ছাত্রকে আমরা সুপারম্যান বলি, দোয়া করবেন যেন তাঁর স্বপ্ন যেন পূরণ করতে পারি।

শুধু সুলতান নয়, এমন হাজার মুসলিম দরিদ্র শিক্ষার্থীর লেখাপড়ার স্বপ্ন পূরণ করছে বিদ্যানন্দে আসা যাকাত ফান্ড। উল্লেখ্য মূলত দুস্থ পরিবারের আয়ের পথ করার পাশাপাশি শিক্ষায় আমরা ফোকাস করতে চাই।

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BREAKING: Former president Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed passed away at Dhaka Combined Military Hospital (CMH) this morning. He was 92.

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🚨 HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE 🚨

Bangladesh get their first Women's Cricket World Cup win in their debut tournament 🙌

What a comeback from the bowlers - Pakistan went from 183-2 to 188-7 to 215-9 🤯

live 👉 es.pn/CWC22-13

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The five-year search for the unique flower needed to weave Bangladeshi muslin, which only grows near the city, Dhaka, began with a rigorous five-year search.

Monzur Hossain, the project's lead botanist, and his team used a fundamental book on plants by 18th-century Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus, as well as a later historical tome on Dhaka muslin, to narrow down a possibility from 39 wild species collected around Bangladesh.

Because local institutions lacked any Dhaka muslin garment specimens, Hossain and his colleagues traveled to India, Egypt, and the United Kingdom in search of samples at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

The intense labour needed means that any garments stitched from Dhaka muslin will always remain a boutique product, but the government has found some tentative interest from established industry players.

“To bring down cost, we have to speed up the production process. Otherwise, reviving Dhaka muslin won’t mean anything,” said Hossain.

Source :https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/9/textile-hub-bangladesh-revives-muslin-the-forgotten-elite-fabric

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Muslin fabric can be woven perfectly with yarn as fine as 300-500 counts. More the number, finer the yarn will be. However, most artisans do not use counts as fine as that and it is a skill that has been lost to time. But after more than 200 years, Mohsena has now the become first-ever artisan in Bangladesh to spin more than 500 yarn. She has been key in the revival of the fabled Muslin fabric, which got extinct in the 18th century.

She learned to spin yarn from her in-laws, members of a Khadi weaving family in Cumilla, for years. When officials of the state-run Muslin revival project came around looking for fine yarn spinners, they discovered Mohsena along with many other women from the villages in Chandina.

Mohsena courageously took the lead to weave finer yarn. Step by step, she was finally able to spin 500 count yarn, something that is not possible for even a machine. Following this ,the handloom board drafted her as a trainer for training dozens of new generation of Muslin yarn spinners. And last year one of her students -- a poor woman also from Chandina -- broke Mohsena's record. She spun 731 count yarn -- arguably a record in human history.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/100000227132922/posts/7809727265711434/?d=n

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Two different conflicts, a similar moment of despair.

Crowds tried to push a baby to safety on a train in Kiev, Ukraine.

A similar moment also took place in Afghanistan in 2021, when a baby was handed to US soldiers.

Photos:Reuters

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"My grandfather, Dr. Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal, completed his PhD in Bengali Press and Literary Writings from SOAS, University of London as a Commonwealth Scholar in 1969. Consequently, he received the Ekushey Padak in 1987, while serving as the Director General to the Bangla Academy in Dhaka.

Fast-forward to 2021 - I completed my MSc in Development Studies from the same university as a Chevening Scholar and have begun to serve as a UNV Research and Business Intelligence to UNICEF Bangladesh. And while I never got the opportunity to meet my grandfather in his lifetime, as a result of his untimely demise years before I was born - I hope that he's proudly watching over me for carrying his SOAS legacy forward.”

-Aishwarya Rahman, Bangladesh

©Aishwarya Rahman, Bangladesh

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