Primarily concerned with the South Asian diaspora in the different regions of the world, Amitav Ghosh has set himself the task of narrating an anti-Hegelian history of the world, incorporating hitherto left-out narratives ...

Tobacco control policies are essential to improve the file of the poor as well as the economic welfare of the country. Bangladesh loses 5% of its GNP due to malnutrition. The level of poverty increased because of tobacco ...

Since landless is considered m one of the prime causes of poverty in Bangladesh, different governments at different rimes have initiated rural rehabilitation programs aiming to improve the quality of life of the poor ...

There have been some developments in the area of lexical semantics through corpus linguistics in recent time. As a result, it is now possible to focus on semantic dimension of lexemes from a usage-based perspective. This ...

This paper examines some of the popular songs of the Indian Film Industry where the roles of men and women are fixed stereotypically. Some of these lyrics are written by legendary Indian lyricists such as Gulzar (Sampooran ...

From the classical maxim that "empires are forged by war" to the notion of "hybrid wars", "aestheticization of war," exploitation of nation states, corporatization and commodification, imperialist powers with globalizing ...

This study examines the differences in motivations of English and non-English major university students in Bangladesh to learn English oral communication. Altogether 355 (184 English and 171 non-English majors) university ...

This article details an investigation of the application of creative writing to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students at two universities, one in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the other in Dhaka, ...

This paper is an attempt to read Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake in the light of Stuart Hall's essay on "Cultural Identity and Diaspora". Hall begins his essay saying that identity is not as transparent or unproblematic as ...