Some excellent posts in our Bangla blog -

Tanveer Islam who is a specialist in urban planning and disaster management has just started a series on the planning problems of Dhaka city. Does our capital city have a future? Tanveer, an academic in the United States, is still in his 20s. We are hopeful of many more posts from him.

We have also added a new post on the shipbreaking industry in Sitakunda. This industry was the subject of a recent award-winning documentary by Shaheen Dill-Riaz. Lohakhor (The Ironeaters, or Eisenfresser to call it by its original German title) has already won multiple awards on the international film festival circuit. It is showing next month in London at the British Museum. The film review we have posted is by Tirondaz, a writer and translator who also recently published an anthology of German short stories translated into Bangla. Kafka, Boll, Zweig - these are the writers Tirondaz chose for his volume, which was released during last month’s Boi Mela.

On the lighter side, there is a profile of Akram Khan, the British Bengali dancer who has taken the world of contemporary dance by storm. Definitely something to make a song and dance about.

Indeed, just like the blog! Please read, register, comment and participate. (We are best viewed through the Firefox browser.) The use of Bangla on the net is becoming easier by the day. In particular the introduction of the Avro Keyboard marks a quantum leap in the ease of writing Bangla. Even better, Avro is actually available in a portable format, so you can literally plug your USB into any computer on this planet and start typing away in Bangla within moments!!! What could be easier than that???