Unheard VoicesAll things BangladeshCredit crunch drives new social entrepreneurship- September 16, 2008 By Hugo Greenhalgh Published: September 12 2008 19:26 &124; Last updated: September 12 2008 19:26 FT A new style of social entrepreneurship is being born out of the credit crunch, according to environmental and social campaigners. Social and charitable entrepreneurs business owners who attempt to engineer social change through entrepreneurial methods are now paying more attention to ...http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/09/16/1826/ Bangladeshi cricketers try to hide their incompetence and greed under fake outrage- September 15, 2008 We always felt it. We always thought about it but never really entertained the idea for long. But now the proof is in the pudding. 11 national cricketers prefer MORE MONEY than the honour of playing national cricket for Bangladesh. While this is understandable for cricketers like Bashar who are past their prime. But for cricketers ...http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/09/15/bangladeshi-cricketers-try-to-hide-their-incompe... End The Grand Experiment- September 15, 2008 Daily Star printed this expanded version of a blog that originally appeared on DP. DAILY STAR, September 15, 2008 End The Grand Experiment By Saher Zaidi Its time its time you were gone - Anton Chekhov Agafya Sitting in traffic and calculating how long it would take my 10 minute ride to mutate into 2 hours, I thought about traffic ...http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/09/15/time-you-were-gone/ So whats there to fuss about- September 12, 2008 The Manna factor is in play again. The two leaders are out now. The bitter truth for some that was hard to accept a few months ago, is a reality. Making the two leaders irrelevant is impossible. We talked about a possible deal in this blog between AL and the government and mused aloud what ...http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/09/12/so-whats-there-to-fuss-about/ We were also hurt that day- September 11, 2008 I moved into a new apartment that evening, and after setting up the basic furniture etc, was pretty tired. I went to bed at about 10pm, which is early morning in New York. I&8217;m not sure why I didn&8217;t sleep right away. Some channel was playing a rerun of a West Wing ...http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/09/11/we-were-also-hurt-that-day/ It aint over till the two ladies singHasina released .. and now Khaleda too- September 11, 2008 BREAKING NEWS Khaleda sets foot outside the prison Thu, Sep 11th, 2008 11:50 am BdST Dhaka, Sept 11 (bdnews24.com) Former prime minister Khaleda Zia was released on bail Thursday from the special jail set up within the Jatiya Sangsad complex, after a year in detention, a prisons official said. BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has set out already to ...http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/09/11/hasina-released/ Engineer Siddique, RIP- September 10, 2008 Bangladeshis living abroad typically have rather skewed views about the state of their homeland. Some have a rather rosy picture, particularly when there is a new government. Thus in the first of 2007, many euphoric NRBs hailed the coup of that year to be the best thing since Liberation. But these optimists ...http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/09/10/1823/ Manila thoughts- September 8, 2008 I was in Manila recently attending a conference. I spent a week in the city, though part of it was spent cooped up in the hotel room. One can never know much about a country from the little one sees in a few day, so none of what I say should be viewed ...http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/09/08/manila-thoughts/ Migrant Workers: Denial & Class- September 8, 2008 Migrant Workers: Narratives of Destination, Denial &38; Class NEW AGE, September 8, 2008 There is very little that the government doesnt know about how the sector is run and there is very little that the powers that be have done in the past for the poor workers because they are the ones who are running the show. ...http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/09/08/migrant-class/ Notes from a Conference- September 5, 2008 I represented Drishtipat in a conference titled &8216;Changing Asia: forging partnerships, building sustainability&8217; held in Manila on 29-30 Aug. The Conference was held by the Asia Forum to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Magsaysay Award, and more details are available here. Other representatives from Bangladesh were: the Prothom Alo editor Matiur Rahman; ...http://www.drishtipat.org/blog/2008/09/05/notes-from-a-conference/ |