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Let them eat poison Mubin S Khan and Adnan Khandker reveal how the practice of using chemicals and industrial dyes to make our food look fresh and tasty is growing like a cancer as the government looks on, unperturbed... The poet is dead, long live the poet by Mubin S Khan Are you experienced? Adnan Khandker reveals how a lack of sex education coupled with a growing culture of pre-marital sex in our major cities is making young people more and more vulnerable to unwanted pregnancies and fatal diseases... Bangla channel blog How far have we come since the bad-old-days of BTV? With a slew of Bangladeshi TV channels elbowing into our evening entertainment, Mashida R Haider spent a week watching everything from talk-shows to drama and news. This is her blog... Globalising poverty, globalising hunger The idea of globalisation is sold to us by the developed world as a panacea for world poverty. In fact it is making Bangladesh’s rich better off as it pushes our poorest over the edge of impoverishment. Tanim Ahmed explains how we were sold lies... Till divorce do us part More and more women in Dhaka are finding the courage and independence to walk out of marriages in which they are abused. Tahmina Shafique reveals how the ages-old stigma and social taboo of the ‘dreaded divorce’ is fading, granting urban women the option of doing the brave thing...

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