*This post of mine was also published on Forbes.* Last month when Beyonce’s massively successful secret album launched, I had it on repeat for weeks, and danced all over my house with my baby girl to the addictive beats of “Flawless,” “XO,” “Grown Woman,” and “Pretty Hurts” just to name a few. With her latest …
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*This post of mine was also published on Huffington Post.* Poverty, natural disasters, and cheap labor may be what you would normally associate with Bangladesh, but India’s neighbor could be Asia’s next major startup hub. “Bangladesh is becoming a land of opportunity,” says Samad Miraly, a Canadian-Bangladeshi angel investor based in Dhaka. “It’s a place …
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I went home to Bangladesh after three years last month, and although the trip was personal and I try to make a point not to work, I was too honored to turn down an invitation to speak at the Fortnightly Anannya’s auditorium in Dhaka. The publication, amongst its many other social contributions, also manages a …
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I do not believe in beginning a new year with an apology, but that is precisely what I owe to my fabulous feminist readers for being slightly MIA as 2014 gets underway. I am wrapping up my first trip home to Dhaka after a few years, but that does not mean I have not been …
*This post of mine was also published in The Daily Beast.* As a young girl in Bangladesh, you could say I grew up parallel to the legendary rivalry between the country’s main political foes, Sheikh Hasina and Begum Khaleda Zia: two very powerful women with some serious political capital. Hasina is one of the only …