Blog Day

I almost forgot that today is the 4th blog day. Celebrate!

Here is my recommendation of Five English blogs on Bangladesh:

• An ordinary citizen - A pediatrician's musing on politics and current affairs.
• Joi Bangla.info - Events and travel in Bangladesh.
• Dhaka - A photoblog on Dhaka city
  
• Back to Bangladesh - An expatriate returns to his homeland after 30 years
• Desher Chobi - The face of my motherland, a photoblog.
  

Five Bangla Blogs:

• গ্লোবাল ভয়েসেস বাংলা সংস্করণ - পৃথিবী কথা বলছে, আপনি কি শুনছেন বা পড়ছেন?
  
• না বলা কথা - দৃষ্টিপাতের বাংলা ব্লগ
• বিদ্যাকুট - সাহিত্য এবং সমসাময়িক কথন
• লুৎফর রহমান নির্ঝর - ব্যক্তিগত কথন
• সীমাহীন সংলাপ - ঢাকা-টরন্টোর ভালোবাসায় মিলেমিশে বেড়ে ওঠা কোনো একজনের সংলাপের সীমাহীনতা।
  

I hope you like these recommendations.


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On Sarah Palin

US Presidential candidate John McCain has chosen Sarah Palin, the current governor of the U.S. state of Alaska as his running mate. She is a model US citizen but many do not know about her. The Wikipedia entry on her is a starter but Joho the blog reveals there are even more interesting information in the Wikipedia discussion page on information filtered.

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Dating tips

How To Date A Japanese Girl

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How to date a Japanese girl - by a real Japanese girl

Via Preetam Rai

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Image of the day

The Federal Chancellor office in Berlin

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Makeover

This was long due. I was planning to change the template of my blog for better management of contents and I was already getting complaints from the users. I realized that the layout which looks alright in my laptop's wide screen may be shown broken in others pcs.

So I have chosen a new template. I am still fine tuning it. Please let me know your feedback.

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Paintings by Rabindranath Tagore

The Art of Piece is an online tour hosted by The British Museum

Image credit: The British Museum

…our family has
been a confluence of
three cultures, Hindu, Mohammedan and British.'
(Rabindranath Tagore, Hibbert Lectures, Oxford, 1930)

"Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is the most famous South Asian literary figure of the twentieth century. He was a poet, writer, statesman, educator and musician whose work and achievements earned him worldwide respect.

Born in Bengal, in eastern India, he was a strong supporter of Bengali unity and opposed the region's division at the end of the British Empire.

He was best known as a composer and poet and was the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for literature. However, when already 60 years old, he began to paint and created a body of work that made him one of South Asia's great modern painters."

Click here for Rabindranath's paintings.

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A historic speech

I know you are probably troubled by the media and public attention US presidential candidate Barack Obama is getting. But this is truly an outstanding speech:



Mash reacts:

America and the world took a historic step forward tonight.

A country that was founded on the noble but unfulfilled notion that all men are created equal, a country that until the Thirteenth Amendment legally allowed men to own Black men as slaves, a country that within our lifetime has witnessed the lynching of Black men, has now put a Black man in a position to vie to lead it. It is this legacy of injustice that makes this moment historic and seismic in its impact. America is at its best when it strives to fulfill its founding promise. Tonight it took a giant step in that direction.

What brought us to this moment was Barack Obama. He stood tonight in front of 85,000 citizens at Mile High Stadium in Denver not because he was a Black man, but because he was the Democratic candidate who had garnered the most votes. Barack Obama’s improbable run at the presidency tonight shouldered the added burden of the weight of history. The moment had the potential to overshadow the man. Instead Barack Obama transcended it.

Tonight, on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic speech, Barack Obama delivered an acceptance speech that seized the moment and transcended it.

Here is the text of the speech.

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