Author name: Razib Ahmed

  Ali is one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky in USA in 1942. His birth name was Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. which was changed after his changing religion to Muslim. He was converted to the orthodox Sunni Islam in 1975. He is often told “Black Muslim.”

  Harry Potter is now in the list of the greatest movies of all time. Though the movie is mainly for children, its artistic and thrilling story made it popular to the people of all ages too. The movie is the fourth highest grossing movie ever released in Hollywood with its worldwide income of $926,287,400.

  Johnny_Weissmuller is another talented swimmer in the swimming history. This multi skilled legend is also very famous for playing the role of Tarzan in the movie titled ‘Tarzan’, one of the successful movies ever released inHollywood. He acted in the 12 movies of Tarzan series and could create an individual place in the Hollywood.

  Sir Don Bradman is a name which represents the passion and art of cricket. This Australian legendary master cricketer is undoubtedly the best in the history of cricket. He could take cricket to such a height where Bradman is set as a king ruling others in the cricket world. He symbolizes a model of

  He was the first renowned Bengali scientist who had an important contribution in the invention of Radio and microwave optics. He was born in Mymensingh in Bengal which is the current Munshiganj District in Bangladesh. He studied in Hare school in Kolkata and then he got his B.A. in Science degree from Calcutta University.

  It has not been long since that a person with black dress was seen running in the football field with his trade mark bald head. If you have not figured out this person yet and if you are a regular spectator of world football then for sure your memory is cheating with you. Yes,

Navratilova is perhaps the greatest female tennis players of all time. She is the former world no. 1 tennis player in the women’s Singles WTA ranking. She won 18 Grand Slam titles in her career which is second highest Grand Slam success in tennis history. In Doubles, she is also a legendary figure as she

  Edison is the great inventor who has over 1000 patents and his inventions are in various fields used in our daily life. In his early life he was thought to have a learning disability and he could not read till he was twelve and later he himself admitted that he became deaf after pulling

  Einstein is the great scientist of the twentieth century and notable physicist of all time. It is told that he had learning disability in his childhood. He could not talk till he was three and could not read till he was eight. Despite such problems he later became the noble prize winner for his

There can be debate about whether Charles Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) is the greatest scientist of all time but there is no doubt that he is the most controversial scientist of all time. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859)- this is the book that has made

  Galileo is considered as one of the greatest contributor to the development of Science. It is undoubtedly true that Galileo could first helped science to come out of the trend of Aristotle. He was physicist, astronomer, and philosopher and his best known contributions lie in the development of Telescope, first two laws of motion

  Newton was also a man of versatile quality. He was physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher in a row. His contribution in the development of science is a special one. He I best known for his explanation of Universal Gravitation and three laws of motion, and he was able to prove that the

  Aristotle is the Great philosopher who had a vast knowledge in different disciplines. Studying different subject he contributed a lot in each of those subjects. He contributed in physics, poetry, zoology, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, and biology. This laurel Greek philosopher was born in Stagira in 384 BC. His father Nicomachus was a

Search English has now 6,000 members. It is growing very rapidly. More than that, we have started to see some posts from our members indicating that they are not afraid to speak or write in job interviews. When we started the group some people told me that it would not become successful as Bangladeshi people

Within the next few hours, Search English group is going to have 6000 members. We feel happy and satisfied to note that all the regular persons in skype adda and in this group have seen one very big improvement- they are not afraid of using English any more. They have no hesitation now to speak

I have noticed that the number of posts has increased in this group. People now can write more freely. It has happened because some of us try to write comments seriously. Anyone who has written comment for just 15 days can write posts more freely. Secondly, even some of us now can write long comments.

I have been sitting almost continuously for the last 8 hours. I have been coordinating the effort to launch e-CAB Answer. This is a place where anyone can find answer of almost any question related to e-commerce. In the first stage, we want to find and upload the answers of One Thousand questions. AbUL Khayer

Earlier today, Muna apu wrote a post in this group. She stated that while facing a job interview, she had to answer all the questions in English language. It really does not matter whether she will get the job or not. What matters is that Apu could do it. She could speak in English for

The biggest obstacles of learning English in our country are fear and shame. We are always afraid if we are making mistakes. We are always worried if others will laugh at us when we speak or write. We feel ashamed to think that others might laugh at our mistakes. From our childhood, we develop a

I am good at encouraging others. I have been able to develop a method that is producing one after another success stories. However, I am struggling on convincing everyone to give a lot of time. You have become skilled in speaking but now, you have to become skilled in writing. It is a very important

Now, all of the regular participants in Skype adda can speak more or less fluently. No one is afraid or ashamed to speak in English anymore. It is a very big success for all of us. We could achieve it because we are acting like a team. We are moving forward hand in hand like

The group has now 10,000+ members and also, our Alexa ranking indicates that we are becoming a well visited website in Bangladesh. Yes, success is on the way for the four of us who set up this group, Skype adda and Search English website. As for me, this will be a great success story that

I have basically two skills- I can write and I can build a small team. My dream is to build a team of 10 persons for writing. So far, we have got 7 persons in this regard. I would not say that it is a formidable team but I am satisfied with it. I am

I write many posts in a month to encourage others. It is not easy to motivate others about learning English. I am the main figure or teacher of this group, skype adda and Search English website. My dream is to ensure that many persons will become skilled in English language without spending any money. At

We have a very active group here. Actually, today, I have realized that we are gradually creating or at least making a new field popular in our country- English and ICT. Many of the participants in this group and skype adda come from freelancing background. Their goal is to become skilled in English language so

  Today, I have written several posts about Partho Pratim Majumdar vai. I wrote about him because success always brings a kind of sweet feeling in our heart. It is the success of Partho vai but at the same time it is the success of Search English Group too. We all share a part of

Almost every day, someone knocks me in Facebook and tells me that they are weak in English but they need for their job exams. I advise them to spend 4-5 hours in Search English group, write 30 comments a day and read as many posts as possible. Hardly anyone listens to my advice. I am

From January, you will notice that every week someone from this group will give post to inform us that they have got a job or freelancing project. In other words, they will start earning money. Why will it happen? Simply because, there are many opportunities for anyone who is skilled in English language. Of course,

It takes only 5-10 minutes of time for me to write a post in Facebook. I normally write around 200 words in a post. I can type fast and I can think fast too. Many people do not want to believe this matter as they cannot do it. Well, what they do not realize that

  In this group, I hardly knew anyone even just 5 months ago. They are not my relatives or friends. Many of them were not even in my Facebook friend list. Many of them do not live in the same city. They live in different corners of Bangladesh. I know some of them virtually in

We all know this proverb. Partho Protim Majumder has been more or less a failure story in our society. After passing HSC, he got admitted into a private university and stayed there for one year and he failed in every semester. As a result, he became frustrated and left his study 3 years ago. However,

I am one of the most active persons in Facebook in this country. I do not know of any other person who writes so many posts and comments. I basically write to inspire young people about becoming skilled in something. We all want money, good job or become successful in business. There is nothing wrong

I am highly satisfied today because we have many posts in this group and people are commenting too. The group is alive and it is moving ahead. More than anything else, some of you are really trying. I wanted this matter to happen because until you try, you cannot become successful. Writing is a very

Almost every day, someone asks me this question: Why are you against grammar? I am not against learning grammar; I am not against speaking and writing accurately. If you can do it then I have no problem. I do not tell anyone here to write in wrong English. Here, in Search English, I am trying

  I studied in humanities or in arts group in all my life. So, at first, computer was a scary thing. However, I was attracted to Internet as I am always fond of knowledge and information. It was not easy for me to become skilled in using computer and Internet. Luckily or unluckily, in 1999,

  You have studied English language for 12 long years from class 1 to HSC. If we do something for 12 years, we should become highly skilled in it. However, for us, it has happened the other way. We are weak in English, we are afraid, we are ashamed to use it and finally we

In Four months of Skype adda, we have seen that at least 50 persons could become skilled in speaking English. They have spoken at least one hour and they have done it live in front of at least 20 other persons in skype. Anyone who has tried and given at least 15 days of time

I have known him for almost one year. I used to call him ‘bhejal’ or trouble as he was fond of bhejal things. Anyway, I did not like him at all. However, four months ago when I started Skype adda, he joined there and became a regular person. His background is full of bhejal. Ovi

  Without spending any money for marketing, Search English is growing rapidly. Many of you already know that I am the president of e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh or e-CAB and I have to spend most of my time there. Otherwise, Search English would have become more active and have more members. May be, by now,

  e-CAB has been a very long and hard fought battle for me. I feel very tired these days as I hardly had any rest in the last 26 months. Some fights are worth fighting for. e-Commerce is now becoming an important industry in our economy. Now, my fight is Search English. The good thing

Today, I have written several posts about Partho Pratim Majumdar vai. I wrote about him because success always brings a kind of sweet feeling in our heart. It is the success of Partho vai but at the same time it is the success of Search English Group too. We all share a part of it.

Search English has now 6,000 members. It is growing very rapidly. More than that, we have started to see some posts from our members indicating that they are not afraid to speak or write in job interviews. When we started the group some people told me that it would not become successful as Bangladeshi people

Just do the following things and you will feel some better. We feel depressed because of basically 2-3 reasons- failure in love, unemployment and extreme poverty, unhappiness and in family and poor performance in education. 95% of cases related to depression are somehow connected to the 4 things mentioned above. I have noticed that three

For the last 21 months, I am almost always active in Facebook. I started this mission on 1 November 2014. We just started going public with e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB). I have written at least 300 hundred posts per month in Facebook and thus, I have written 6,000+ posts or may be even more.

After 5 months of trying, e-Commerce World has finally become a group about e-commerce, business, economy and technology. I am satisfied with the group. Good posts are coming but we lack comments. Anyway, my dream is that we will make it as one of the best business groups in Facebook. So, I request all of

Just 18 months ago, some people laughed at me in Facebook and in real life because I try to encourage others. It is a part of my natural instinct. I have seen magical improvements to a number of people who have spent one year of time with me. The formula is very simple. I ask

I am good at encouraging others. I have been able to develop a method that is producing one after another success stories. However, I am struggling on convincing everyone to give a lot of time. You have become skilled in speaking but now, you have to become skilled in writing. It is a very important

I am happy today because I have noticed that there are many long posts and comments in Search English. We have stopped approving one sentence posts, translation and mcq posts since 1 January and at first, I was worried about the activity of the group. I am happy that I do not need to worry

I am very happy to see the improvement of Shipra Debnath apu. She has been trying a lot for the last 3 and a half months. She does not have any desktop or laptop and she does not have a lot of free time either. Still, she has tried her best and if she can

I often wish that I could give up everything and just work on this blog only. Well, life is not like that. I have to write about the things that I do not like that much to earn money and pay all the bills. This is life. Well, I do not regret it because what

Even today, by the term book, we mainly understand printed books on paper. Yes, ebooks in digital format is making in roads and is getting more and more in circulation but still, most people do not have that much good idea about it. So, there is some mistrust. I like ebooks more than printed books

It is now 8 AM in my city. Tonight, I worked almost whole night. For the last 10 hours, I am working with my PC and Internet. Of course, I ate my dinner and did some chatting with my wife who is now in another country for few weeks and also lay in bed some.

We do not like rejections in life. We also want to become successful. However, if you are a freelance writer then you should be mentally prepared for both of them. First of all, you will send you writings to many newspapers, magazines and publishers and it is normal that you will get rejected in your

I feel happy that I can keep my promise of yesterday that I would write about Pride and Prejudice for the whole month of October 2009. This is the first day and today, I read the first two chapters of the novel. They mainly deal with Mr. and Mrs Bennet. Mrs. Bennet is excited that

They are two sisters. Jane is the elder one and then is Elizabeth. However, from first, it is perhaps clear to us that Elizabeth is smarter and with stronger personality. On the other hand, Jane was an innocent and at times a naïve young who trusts people very easily. Of course, what is interesting to

It seems that today is the day of writing from my heart. When I started blogging, this was my motto that I would write what I feel and what I believe. It is not that I do not do it but may be, I try to make a balance between my feelings and what I

Caroline Bingley or Miss Bingley is perhaps one of the most annoying characters in Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. She is a very good example of a flat character- she does not change at all from the beginning to the end. She is a very selfish and rude girl. The funny thing is that

I would not blame you if get shocked from the title of this entry. There is no relationship between online transaction and Bangla literature. However, since I started this blog on Bangla literature almost 4 years ago, I realized that this is a field in which earning money is almost impossible in Internet. So, if

It gives me a lot pleasure to inform you that ICC World Cup Cricket 2011 will start from Bangladesh- my country. This will be the biggest event for this country. We have never hosted any sporting event bigger than perhaps SAF Games. So, it is nice to see that the opening ceremony will take place

It was perhaps my good luck that in college, we had to study the short story The Gift of the Magi written by O. Henry. It my most favorite short story and I have ready it many many times. I first read it in 1990 and that was 19 years ago. My enjoyment of reading

I have heard this thing from many people that their best time of writing is at night. I do not know the reason but I think that they may feel that at night, nature is quite and there is less sound pollution to deal with if you live in a city. As for me, I

I noticed that I waste a lot of time every day and I do very small amount of writing. I browse Internet, check my stats, watch TV etc etc. Thus, I waste a lot of time and this way, I find very small amount of time to do the actual writing. I am a blogger

I have to say that the distance between journalists and bloggers is decreasing significantly. Sarah Hartley wrote an excellent article that I could find in the website of the Guardian: Ten essential points for journalism jobseekers in a digital age The title perhaps clearly says what it is about. If you are looking for a

The Gift of the Magi is one of famous short stories of O. Henry. James (Jim) Dillingham is the hero of this short story. He is a hard working but poor young man. He loves his wife and it is clear in the story that he all the time tries for the happiness of his

2009 is almost coming to an end. 2010 is going to start after 12 days. It is the time to look back to the last one year and make some plans and goals for the next year. 2009 was a bad year for me. One after another problem made my life very difficult. The worst

The Pilgrim’s Progress is a masterpiece not only of John Bunyan but also of the 17th century England. John Bunyan wrote it in sometime after 1660 and it was published in 1678. Since then, this book has never gone out of print and it has been translated to around 200 languages. This shows that The

There is little doubt that Shakespeare is most popular dramatist in the whole world. There are other dramatists in other languages but no one could reach near Shakespeare when it comes to popularity. He died almost 400 years ago but still, his dramas are played in every country in the whole world. So now, let

We all are fan of epic poetry. There are many poems in differentcountries and some of the poems are considered to be a part of national heritage and treasure. Think of Iliad and Odyssey. They were written originally in Greece but in our time, they are considered to be a part of the heritage of

If you do not know who is Stephenie Meyer then you should read theWikipedia entry on her. This December she is going to celebrate her 35th birthday. She is not that old yet but Stephenie Meyer is now a successful name in the world of writing. Yes, her rise from obscurity should inspire all the