Write to the editor @newagebd.com Main Page « Front Page « Metro « Business « International « Sports « National « Editorial « Op-Ed « Home « Timeout « Letters « Others Archive « Launch Supplement «   February 3-9, 2006   On the cover ‘They threatened to gouge my eyes out and bury me alive’ Mubin S Khan and Siddiqur Rahman Khan reveal how corruption and dirty politics could be behind the violence that has gripped Dhaka’s Siddheswari University College The not-so-mysterious death of Jamtolar Rani Adam Barlow, resident scientist of a pioneering tiger conservation project in the Bangladesh Sundarban, discusses the incredible insights revealed by the first tiger collared by the project ‘If we stay away in fear, the fundamentalists will win’ Saad Hammadi reports how readers, publishers and the Bangla Academy alike are refusing to let last year’s Valentine’s Day bomb blasts rain on this year’s Ekushey Boi Mela REFLECTIONS A teacher named Mian Abul Hossain The last time I saw Mian Abul Hossain, it was a hot afternoon on Elephant Road here in the city. And that was more than twenty years ago. He looked pretty sad and dishevelled. In his trademark kurta and pyjama, he certainly did not look in the best of spirits. I had heard earlier that he was no more with Notre Dame College, where he had taught me. Why he had left the college, or whether it had been the other way round, I never did find out. But on that steamy afternoon, when I walked up, indeed almost ran up to him, the grin that appeared across his face said it all. Also Get your ass outa here...! If people don’t dislike you... The rise and fall of Bengal The Bureaucratic Ascendancy: Public Administration in Bangladesh   COPYRIGHT © NEW AGE 2005 Mailing address Holiday Building, 30, Tejgaon Industrial Area, Dhaka-1208, Bangladesh. Phone 880-2-8114145, 8118567, 8113297 Fax 880-2-8112247 Email xtra@newagebd.com Web Designer Zahirul Islam Mamoon