Victory For ‘Two Countries’!
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Posted:Aug 23, 2016 5:45 am
Last Updated:Oct 16, 2023 9:02 pm 8320 Views
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Rhythmic gymnastics: Mamun hails victory for 'two countries'
Margarita Mamun, born in Moscow to a Bangladesh father and a Russian mother, gracefully captured the Rhythmic gymnastics gold in the individual all around event at the Rio Olympics and she called it a victory for two countries---Bangladesh and Russia!
Congratulations Mamun for showing off your exquisite balancing and twirling skills to win the coveted gold medal!
“The 20-year-old Russian goes by the nickname of 'The Bengal Tiger' but rather than knocking over her rivals with brute force, she simply left them chasing shadows as she produced four dazzling routines with the hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon to win her first global all around title.” She earned Russia a fifth successive gold in the discipline.
Perhaps, it will not be out of place to mention here for record that this young lady had also represented Bangladesh as a junior before returning back to Russia with her parents.
Her father, Abdullah Al Mamun, is an engineer from Bangladesh settled in Moscow and mother a former gymnast, scored 76.483 points to grab the gold ahead of her compatriot Y Kydryavtseva, who scored 75.408 points to take the silver in a tense final round.
Congratulations Margarita Mamun once again for winning the gold for both of your fatherland as well as for your motherland. We are proud of you.
Pic 4:Rajshahi,Bangladesh-born Abdullah Al Mamun is seen in an old family picture with his Margarita Mamun, who went on to win all-around rhythmic gymnastics gold for Russia in the Rio Olympics. Photo: Collected
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The sad end of a determined Elephant
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Posted:Aug 21, 2016 11:57 am
Last Updated:Jan 10, 2019 1:27 am 8163 Views
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“Banga Bahadur: is dead –Long live “Banga Bahadur”
No, Banga Bahadur is nsither a king nor an emperor.. Therefore, the traditional proclamation made following the accession of a new monarch is not applicable here.
Banga Bhadur is the name given to an elephant by those who tried to save the animal from inevitable death and send it back to the herd in Assam, India where it belonged before the flood waters swept him down the river Brahmaputra . He entered Bangladesh through Roumari and traveled through Kurigram, Gaibandha, Bogra and Sirajganj before reaching Jamalpur.
Banga Bahadur was presumably trying to get back to his herd and swam across the Brahmaputra twice. But the strong current kept taking him further down stream. Repeated efforts, from both Bangladesh and India, to facilitate his return home ended in failure.
Readers, who love wild animals, may find the following story touching abd most fascinating to read and I take this opportunity to reproduce here under the story that Shah Husain Imam wrote about this great wild elephant and published it in the local English language newspaper ‘The Daily Star” on August 19.2016.
An elephant eloquent, instructive in his death
“If while living, the wild animal had animated us, in death it has enlightened us. We saw and felt its nearly six-week long odyssey through the elements of nature before he died—all live and palpable. The educative effect of experiencing the saga first hand has been more pronounced on our minds than perhaps watching a dozen episodes on the Discovery and National Geographic channel, among others.
We gave it a name in its dying moments-Banga Bahadur - almost with a posthumous ring to it. But we gave it alright with love and empathy for an animal in dire distress, its occasional rampaging fury regardless, primarily owing to its circumstances. In part, it may also have been a conscience-salving gesture for not being able to do as much for its rescue as we should have.
Let's, however, highlight a wildlife interest in the fact that the animal must have had a herd identity, a surname, so to speak. It could not have been anonymous among elephants that live in herds. What's particularly relevant is, they have 'deep family bonds and live in tight matriarchal groups led by the oldest and often largest female in the herd.'
One can thus feel in one's bones the pain and trauma the wild elephant, separated from its herd by severe flooding in Assam, must have gone through all the way down to Bangladesh. Totally disconnected from its habitat and without a mother figure, sibling or a friendly companion to look up to, Banga Bahadur was thrown completely off- gear, disoriented and dazed. Sucked on to the roller-coaster journey of well over a 1000km (Western media puts it at 1700km), the animal cascaded, turned, rolled over and violently pushed around the contours, landing on shallow waters, chars or marshy pockets. We know that wild elephants can swim but that it could for such a long distance was a revelation!
Two astounding features of elephant behavior are their high intelligence and memory levels. Banga Bahadur must have used some of these in howsoever a minuscule degree to navigate to safety. It is the memory that serves the herd chief during dry seasons to guide the flock to watering holes tens of miles away that it had seen a long time ago.
They also display, wildlife experts have found, signs of grief, joy, anger and playfulness.
It must have been terribly unsettling for the elephant that despite having an ability to communicate among its peers, it was so rudely left incommunicado to begin with. For all we know, the animal can communicate over long distances by producing 'a subsonic rumble that can travel over the ground faster than sound through air. Often elephants receive the messages through the sensitive skins on their feet and trunks.'
Sadly, none of these could have worked for Banga Bahadur!
It is interesting to note, however, that Banga Bahadur at one stage returned to the spot he had once unshackled himself from to jump into a pond, apparently of its own volition. So left to himself, given his superbly brainy navigation of the Brahmaputra and managing to get by some 45 days, he could have survived the ordeal with the human assistance around. The priority was not to be hung up on tranquilizers, but to let his body mechanism take over with nutrient doses administered for his recovery. The per day food intake of 300—400 lbs, that he on the whole missed for six weeks, was too much of a drag on his strength to be able to keep standing for any effective length of time.
The security concern could not have been insurmountable. On the contrary, a 30-feet trunk-to-tail long animal, weighing around four tones and that too gone weak and tired (the smallest truck is 5 tones) looked highly manageable.
Rather than point finger at each other, we should concentrate on staying prepared with specialized, auto-reflexive equipment and manpower base to respond on a short notice to a similar challenge in future.
We must pay heed to the following, “Preservation of wildness enhances both our capacity and our worthiness as a species and a civilization, to survive on the earth.”
Asian elephants are listed by IUCN 'as endangered' while their African cousins are categorized 'as near threatened.' With the Asian elephants reduced to 35,000—40,000, we would not have been one short of that dismal number if we had saved Banga Bahadur.”
Sources and Courtesy: Dhaka Tribune, The Daily Star and ShahHusain Imam
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A Point to Ponder
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Posted:Aug 18, 2016 9:49 am
Last Updated:Feb 19, 2019 6:24 am 7634 Views
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“Don’t steal, don’t lie and don’t cheat. The government hates competition.”
Is there any truth in what have been stated at above or is it really a joke?
Someone from the neighboring country has sent me recently this one while lamenting the state of corruptions prevailing everywhere in the world!
Since then, I have been pondering on whether we could classify it as a joke or not?
If it is not a joke then we have to understand why a government should hate to compete with persons who indulge in stealing, lying, and or cheating? Should they not punish those who steal, lie or cheat in stead? Have the governments, all over the world, since monopolized stealing, lying, and cheating for themselves? I can not even imagine that this could be the present world wide situation! A good government does not compete with crooks under any circumstance! It punishes the wrong doers in stead!
May be, this is really a joke, and as such must be overlooked! Or may be this is not a joke at all. There may be some truth in it,
Who knows the truth hidden in this one liner quote? Please enlighten me if any of you could come up with a convincing answer.
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May seem Valid even today to many!
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Posted:Aug 8, 2016 8:36 pm
Last Updated:Aug 24, 2016 3:04 am 7907 Views
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Does it matter whether true or false
Marcus Tullius Cicero of the Roman Empire is attributed to have written this appended about the situation during his life time (106 BC-43 B.C., but said to be valid even today).
Could it be true? I do not think so. What about you? Do you believe that Cicero had really written it?
It does not matter whether Cicero had written them or not, they may seem valid to many now! The list, reproduced here under will show us “how all the various classes of society exploit each other from the top down — with politicians living happily at the pinnacle!”
1. The poor work & work.
2. The rich, exploit the poor.
3. The soldier, protects both.
4. The taxpayer, pays for all the three.
5. The wanderer, rests for all the four.
6. The drunk, drinks for all the five.
7. The banker, robs all the six.
8. The lawyer, misleads all the seven.
9. The doctor, kills all the eight.
10. The undertaker buries all the nine.
11. The politician lives happily on account of all the ten .
Perhaps, we all know that Marcus Tullius Cicero, is the person who Gave Natural Law to the Modern World
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Re Posting Philosopher and Linguist
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Posted:Aug 3, 2016 8:06 am
Last Updated:Oct 16, 2023 9:05 pm 7738 Views
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A clarification for re posting the blog!
As this blog was not shown included in the recent list of blogs posted by various bloggers of this site, I have decided to re post it to ascertain how this re posted one is treated by the site.
Can we distinguish a philosopher from a linguist?
Is there really any difference between the two?
Whom can we call a philosopher? What does a philosopher do?
And who is a linguist? What does a linguist do?
We know that philosophy is the study of humans and the world. A philosopher thinks continuously and asks questions all the times.
Let us now see whom we could call a linguist? Is such one a person who happens to be a translator? Alternatively, is the person simply a polyglot, a grammarian, or a word aficionado? Now, what does such a person do?
May be, the person is the one who is committed to the scientific study of language that includes sound, syntax, definition, significance and many more.
Wait please! I can’t proceed further. I did not think that the matter would prove so much complicated for me. I give up as there is an easiest way to find out the difference or differences between these two learned persons!
We can probably find out the difference or differences that we are looking for by reading the under mentioned shortest conversations that took place between a philosopher and a linguist somewhere in this planet we call Earth:
A philosopher says to a linguist,” What if, instead of periods, women had apostrophes?’
The linguist replied, “They’d be more possessive and have more frequent contractions.
Readers, please take no offense! This is just a sugar coated joke that i read somewhere else!.
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Doctors and specialists
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Posted:Jul 30, 2016 8:25 am
Last Updated:Aug 20, 2016 6:12 pm 7534 Views
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Interesting Collective nouns
A slumber of Anaesthesiologists
A Slash of Surgeons
A Rash of Dermatologists
A Cast of Orthopedists
A Hassle of Psychiatrists
A Dribble/pool of Urologists
An Aerie of Ophthalmologists
A Gaggle of. Laryngologists
A Stiff of Pathologists
A clot of Hematologists
A Push of Obstetricians
A Family of GPs
A Warren of Gynecologists
A Stiff of Pathologists
A clot of Hematologists
A Beat of Cardiologists
A Shadow of Radiologists
A Cavity of Dentists
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Positive,Negative, Inconclusive.............
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Posted:Jul 28, 2016 3:04 pm
Last Updated:May 19, 2021 9:02 am 7629 Views
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An easy one,just for a change!
If words are true reflection of what we think at a particular moment, then we must have to agree that positive words are the reflection of our positive thoughts! Similarly, we should agree that negative words are nothing but the reflection of our negative thoughts.
That is why we are frequently advised to think positive always.
We use the word positive to describe something that is really good! So at no point, the word positive is supposed to be used to describe something that we consider bad.
For describing some thing bad we can always look for a suitable word that is available in our vocabulary!
But, is it really that simple?
Perhaps it is not that simple.
There is a particular place where the word positive really means something really bad!
Could you please name the place? I know that this is not a difficult quiz for my intelligent readers! Go ahead, dear readers! Find the place for us!!
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Pretty and Elegant.........
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Posted:Jul 25, 2016 5:37 am
Last Updated:Nov 9, 2016 6:43 am 7409 Views
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Does she not look fabulously elegant attired in a colorful Sari?
One of the local English language News paper has published the photograph of the current UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, clad in a Sari usually worn mainly by the Indian women of West Bengal and exclusively by the ladies of my country where I live now. The news item that accompanied the photograph is appended so that readers can understand why did the British Prime Minister chose to wear the colorful Sari that apparently made her more popular to the Asian community living in the United Kingdom during the year 2010. I may add here that I felt like getting the photo up here only to show the interested readers how pretty and elegant the current British Prime Minister looks, clad in a Sari! Simultaneously, I wish to imagine my friend Fimour clad in such a sari at least once in her life time!
Now, readers may find the appended news more interesting to read:
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Quote……Theresa May in Sari
The UK's new Prime Minister Theresa May has proven yet again that she poses a different taste when it comes to Fashion. The 59-year-old had turned heads when she appeared in a colorful sari at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in London in 2010.
May had made her first speech as the home secretary wearing a turquoise sari- and did not forget to show off her trademark kitten heels, said a report published in the Daily Mail in 2010.
According to the report, She had the sari made on Green Street in East London and teamed them with her own pair of .... court shoes.
However, May is not the only woman having link to UK politics to dazzle in a Indian outfit. She had followed the footsteps of former British prime minister Gordon Brown's wife Sarah Brown.
Sarah Brown had worn an Indian dress during an official visit to India's capital Delhi in 2008[/COLOR]. ………………unquote
Source: Dhaka Tribune.
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Thought for the day!
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Posted:Jul 20, 2016 8:57 pm
Last Updated:Nov 21, 2018 7:21 am 7919 Views
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Are the "Quotes" really about staying positive?
I had once been very closely associated with some one of this site who was habitually addicted to quote a quote to make me agree with something that seemed to me highly improbable! Many months before now, my friend told me after we ended an argument amicably about our future to believe in the famous quote that says as follows:
“AWAYS BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING WONDERFUL IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN”
During last three years, I really waited for something wonderful to happen to both of us.Nothing wonderful happened so far at least to me! Rather, on the other hand, something unwarranted happened that has led us to choose different paths to travel. This may be the wonderful thing that my friend might have waited for to happen! However, I would never consider our parting as such!
Of late I have been seriously contemplating to leave the quotes inside the books where they belong! Even my 'signature' line quote that appears at the end of my comments posted on various blogs, including mine, may disappear soon unless someone can convince me that quotes are really about “staying positive and looking for the best in the worst situation!”
In view of what have been stated in the foregoing paragraph, may I kindly request my readers to assist me very kindly by pondering upon the under noted three questions on quotes to find answers:
1. Could Quotes be meaningful, inspiring as well as uplifting?
2. Could quotes be misleading and misinforming if too much credence is given to them?
3. Is it wise to follow Quotes?
Thanking every one of my readers in anticipation of their participation
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Height of Innocence!
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Posted:Jul 10, 2016 6:28 am
Last Updated:Aug 2, 2016 10:02 pm 7237 Views
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Innocence at its best!!
A small boy parks his bicycle nearby the highly secured government house located on a famous street of the capital city of a powerful country and walks on…….............
A cop stops him and asks: Why did you park your bicycle here…..don’t you know about this Street and the magnificent house? Many members of the parliament, foreign dignitaries visiting the country, even the president, and his cabinet secretaries pass by here…..............
The boy replied innocently: Don’t worry, I have locked my bicycle.
Source: An Asian friend.Posted Just for a change.
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