Samiul AlamThe Matter of GPA 5 and Education in BangladeshNo, I am not talking about Guam Power Authority. This is about the culture of chasing the Grade Point Average in Bangladesh. I want to…3 min read·Jun 26, 2023----
Samiul AlamMy Political Awakening: Barack Obama Presidency and BeyondI was a 17-year-old metalhead when Barack Obama was inaugurated as the president. I had an apathy towards politics before that, It never…6 min read·Nov 19, 2020----
Samiul AlamLiberal Arts Education in Bangladesh: Why is it so scorned and disliked?“Arts?!? Why would you study that?” “Only dumb kids who could not get in Science stream study that” and there are tons of other degrading…5 min read·Oct 15, 2020----
Samiul AlamEducated Intelligentsia: Why they don’t make the best custodians of the earthLet’s imagine a petroleum engineer with their PhD; working for mining company at the Athabasca oil sands at Alberta, Canada. They are…3 min read·Oct 14, 2020----
Samiul AlamRape Culture in Bangladesh: Time to Wake the F### Up!Bangladesh and sexual violence towards women go back to the birth of the nation. In 1971, there was a campaign of systemic sexual violence…3 min read·Oct 7, 2020----
Samiul AlamBangali Entitlement: Apartheid in the HillsKalpana Chakma, a name that lives as a shame for the nation. A woman who was has been missing for 19 years now because she spoke up…3 min read·Apr 18, 2020----
Samiul AlamAtisha and Forgotten HistoriesAtish Dipankar Srijnan (980–1054) was a Buddhist teacher/master from Bikrampur, Bangladesh. He is still held as an archetypal figure in…3 min read·Apr 18, 2020----
Samiul AlamKabir Singh and Bollywood’s Unending MisogynyOnce a good friend of mine told me to hate content critically, you have to have to go through the content first. I have read here and…3 min read·Jan 8, 2020----
Samiul AlamThe Fragility of Life: Here and GoneFor the last few days, this feeling of dread and gloom has been eating away at me. This undying surge of dread that something terrible is…3 min read·Oct 17, 2018----