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ONCE upon a time there lived in a certain village a little girl. Her mother was very fond of her, and her grandmother loved her even more. This good old woman made for her a red cloak, which suited the child so well that ever after she was called Little Red-Riding-Hood. One day her mother

I CINDERELLA IN THE KITCHEN   ONCE upon a time there lived a man and his wife and one beautiful daughter. The wife fell sick and died, and some time after the father  married again, for he needed some one to take care of his child. The new wife appeared very well before the wedding,

I BEAUTY AND HER SISTERS   THERE was once a rich merchant who had six children, three sons and three daughters. He loved them more than he loved all his riches, so that he was always seeking to make them happy and wise. The daughters were very pretty; but the youngest was more than pretty—she

The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant’s garden. It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time

All of us have the dream to become successful in life. Unless you are born in a rich family, you have to struggle and start from almost nothing. This is a common problem for most of us. During our childhood and teenage years, we dream to become a doctor, engineer, rich business and we dream

For many of us, life is difficult and just standing up on your own feet can pose a big challenge. We have to deal with many problems in our everyday life. One of the major problems is earning a livelihood or earning enough money to pay the bills. What often happens is that we lose

For most of us, life is full of obstacles and challenges. We have to deal with many problems. Just think of the life of an average person. Many of us find it very difficult to maintain satisfactory grades in our educational life. Even before that, we feel that studying is boring and try to jump

Confidence is a must have quality for all of us. However, many of us lack it and it brings misery in our life. When we have the belief that we are good for nothing then it will be almost impossible to do well in life. This absence of self-confidence will destroy any will power in

Have your writing been rejected today? If the answer is yes, then of course you are deeply frustrated and feel discouraged. Rejecting in general is perhaps the toughest thing in the world to get along with. I do not know any good way to console you expect the fact that I am just like you

We write for mainly two reasons: a. for our own satisfaction and b. for earning some money. There are other reasons too but these two are perhaps the most common. We all want to write good articles but very few of us can actually do so and that is why who can write well become

I have decided to write long posts from today. This is my such first post. I am going to do it almost every day from now. There is no need to point out the importance of getting skilled in English language. We all know it and that is why, we are in this group. If

Today, I am very tired. I slept only three hours last night. I went out in the morning at 9 AM and returned home at 9:30 PM. I have no interest to do anything. I simply do not want to write any post tonight as I am very tired. I have no energy. I am

Believe in Me I am Razib Ahmed and for the last two years, people mainly know me as the president of e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB). I have tried my best for e-CAB and now it is a well established trade association in the country. We try to support the online shopping industry. Right now,

Now-a-days, every night, I find someone trying to complete writing 50 or 100 comments. For example, last night it was Sadid bhai and tonight, Emran Rahman Amin vai trying to do that. Tomorrow, someone else may do it. Sometimes, it becomes impossible to keep track of this group as it gets too many comments within

Two years ago, when we started with e-CAB, many people laughed at us. There were not many companies related to e-commerce and the industry was very small. Many people thought that there was no possibility of this industry and that is why there was no use or justification of setting up an association for the

I have been doing research for it a lot for the last one year. From my childhood, it was my dream to form a team and then lead the team towards success. I always wished and still wish to do something outstanding in life, something exceptional. Well, I think that this project of Search English

I am known to many people because of my relentless effort for e-CAB in Facebook for the last two years. I am also famous for my skill to pick up the potential in someone and promote them through my posts in Facebook. Almost every month, I can pick up a hidden talent and introduce him

I have totally cut back on my Facebook activities from today. I am not writing comments or even replying comments. I have cut back on the number of posts. For the next one month or even two months, I want to try for my health. Slowly, I will come back to normal activities but I

Most of us are weak in English and many people may laugh at our writing. Well, we are writing here because we are weak. If we were good then surely we would have started writing in The Daily Star or The Independent. Let others laugh and we are fine with it. I have realized a

Many people regularly contact me about getting my guideline. The improvement of Partho Protim Majumdar vai has attracted even more people. They know that I do not charge any money. So, they are happy but when they talk to me for just 5 minutes, they simply run away- almost all of them. Why does it

I have to answer this question at least twice a month. I am perhaps repeating the same thing again in this post. From first, I have kept on stating that all of you should try to speak fluently first. If I try to stop you each time you make a mistake then believe me you

Search English has now almost 5750 members and may be within 2 days, we will pass 6000 members. May be within this month, we will pass 8000 members and within one month from now, we will have 10,000 members. By the end of the year, it should be around 25 to 30 thousand. It indicates

There is no shortage of tips about improving English language skills. You can find even 100 tips about it.  So, I am not perhaps going to give you more tips. What I am doing in this article is to share my ideas that I have got from trying to teach a group of people for

If you are a regular reader of this blog then you already know that from time to time, we carry out interviews of other bloggers and business personalities. I became interested about Aimee Laine because of the nice photographs you can find in her websitehttp://www.aimeelaine.com . She really has the skill of turning aphotograph in

Sufia Sattar is a female entrepreneur in Dhaka and she is the proprietor of Auditi Crafts. She has a dress shop on the ground floor of her Dhanmondi house. It was her mother who inspired her to come to this field. She has been working day and night to grow her business. What she does

The art of making a balance between career and spouse is a problem that almost everyone faces in every country. Often, this problem torments a couple to the extreme point of getting divorce. In this article I am going to mention some strategies that may help you to make a balance between your career and

When it comes to e-commerce, it is natural the names of rich and developed countries like USA, UK, Germany etc comes. After all, they have high level of per capita income, high speed Internet and penetration of Internet and mobile phone usage and even ratio of smartphone usage and finally modern financial sector. They should

According to a report in The Daily Star, 5,29,000 visitors came to Bangladesh during 2006-2010 and the country ‘earned US$ 413.00 million’ during this time. Accepting this figure as accurate, I am writing this post. I also found in that report of the Daily Star that Bangladesh government gave Tk.650.00 million to the Tourism Board

I have been going to Dhanmondi Lake since 1999. It is 10 years now. Well, at first, I still remember that the place was much less crowded than today. In 2001, I used to go there almost every day in evening and stayed until 10 PM. My favorite place inDhanmondi Lake was and still is

South Asia is one of the poorest regions of earth and I live here. It has nearly 1.5 billion people living in 8 countries and India alone has over 1 billion people. Then there areBangladesh and Pakistan with 150 million people each. South Asiais also home to the largest number of poor people on earth

The history of Internet in Bangladesh is just 13 years old. E-commerce is still not legal here and there is no way of online transaction. SO, earning money through websites is a very big problem. I have written a detailed article about it in another blog: Web Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh. However, I am some shocked

Except for Bhutan Maldives, remittance sent by workers abroad plays an important part in the economies of 5 other countries of South Asia. Most of these workers mainly work in the Middle East and Malaysia. They worked very hard and contributed in the economic development of the countries that they work in. Most of them

Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organization (ASOCIO) is the most important organization dealing with information technology sector in Asia and Oceania region. It was set up in 1984 to promote better relationship among the IT companies in the Asian-Oceanian region. In the last 25 years, it has expanded its activities. Now, ASOCIO has around 10 thousand companies

Blog Network is something that is a collection of blogs run by most of the time by a company or rarely by an individual. A blog can based on a similar topic (business, sprots etc) or can have a number of blogs with different topics. The basic idea is to earn money with the power

On October 27, 2010 at the Westin Hotel in Gulshan, Nokia and The Daily Star launched the first local news widget in the South East Asia Pacific region. Mahfuz Anam, editor and publisher, The Daily Star, Prem Chand, General Manager, Nokia Emerging Asia, attended the event and interacted with the media people and talked about

On October 27, 2010, Nokia and Daily Star, one of the most popular English dailies of Bangladesh, jointly launched the Daily Star news widget in the Nokia Ovi store. It is the first local ews widget launched in South East Asia Pacific region. The news widget is now available for free to all the Nokia

Mobile Phone has become one of the most common gadgets we now use in our daily lives. In South Asia, India is the largest mobile phone market. Already there are several domestic and foreign mobile operators. In this article series, I am going to cover some of the top mobile phone operators in India. Tata

If you are a regular reader of the blog then you must know it very well that I love to interview people from time to time. I am happy to interview April Trent because first of all she loves to travel around the world but more than that she can write about travelling in a

The year 2008 has been an eventful year for Bollywood, the famous Indian movie industry. Many movies were released throughout the year. Some of them did bad, some mediocre, and some poorly. Here is a look at the business of Bollywood in 2008. One of the biggest trends in Bollywood in 2008 was that many

e-Commerce is already big in many countries around the world. In this post, I am going to write about the top ten e-Commerce companies in the world today. In October last year,  Hamburg based market intelligence organization yStats.com published a report titled “The World’s Leading E-Commerce Companies 2014” which contained a list of top ten

She was a highly successful model with the world at her feet; working with top designers, photographers, top fashion magazines and brands, travelling all over the world, at one point, her agent event suggested her to act in movies. Yet, she gave up all that and returned to her homeland with a dream to do

These days, Hero Alom is making a lot of noise in social media. After reading about this person, I have nothing but great respect for him. Those of you who do not know about Hero Alom. His real name is Ashraful Alom. He lives in Erulia Union of Bogra district where he runs a successful

Ananda Ashram Movie Review: Though I watch a lot of English movies it is not that I hate Bangla movies. Of course there are many talented actors and actresses in Bangla cinema. When we talk about great actors of commercial Bangla cinema, Uttam Kumar’s name would come up at the top. No other actor, in

Hollywood is the biggest film industry in the world. Many talented actors work in this industry. Here is a list of top ten Hollywood actors- 1 Robert Downey Jr (Top Ten Hollywood Actors) You can call him the “Muhammad Ali” of Hollywood. Just like Ali, Robert Downey rose to fame in the 90s and then

In Bengali literature Jasimuddin is known as ‘PalliKabi’ (Rural poet). The main subject of his poem was the lives of the people of rural Bengal their simplicity, serenity, suffering, and various other aspects. Jasimuddin was born in the village of Tambulkhana of Faridpur District. He did his M.A in Bengali from Calcutta University and then

M A Jalil Ananta needs no introduction. He is one of the most popular actors of Dhallywood at present. He is a successful businessman, actor and movie director and producer. Recently, he has become the brand ambassador of Grameenphone. Ananta is well-known for making big-budget action movies shot in beautiful foreign locations, breath-taking action sequences

(Here is the translation of a Bangla short story written by Syed Mujtaba Ali a very popular writer in Bangla literature. There has been an article about SYed Mujtaba Ali (http://write-translate.blogspot.com/2006/03/syed-mujtaba-ali.html). The translation of the short story has been done by biplob Kishore Deb, a university student in Dhaka, Bangladesh.) One of my friends often

Children’s literature is a very important field in the world of literature. Almost in all languages there are stories and poems written or unwritten composed for children. Many famous writers in the world wrote stories for children. Recently, J.K Rowling, the author of Harry Potter has earned name and fame around the world. In Bengali

Antony Chekov was one of the greatest short story writers in Russian literature. He had the gift of presenting an ordinary event in a very extraordinary way. Heartache is perhaps such kind of a story in which Chekhov has presented a very ordinary story from everyday life in a very powerful way. While doing it

Through darkness I saw her. Said she, “Where have you been so long?” And raised her bird’s nest-like eyes — Banalata Sen from Natore. (Banalata Sen by Jibanananda Das) One of the greatest examples of metaphor in Bangla literature considered by many specialists is given above. Here, the poet compares his lover’s eye with bird’s

In Bengali literature there are not too many writers who wrote only for the children. The genre of children’s writing is made popular by two people: Upendra Kishore Ray and his son Sukumar Ray. In this article I am going to write about Sukumar Ray. I first read Sukumar’s poem when I was in class

Syed Mujtaba Ali is mainly known for his humorous writing in Bengali. I came to know about Mujtaba Ali when I was in class VI. I first came across his travelogue ‘Nil Noder Deshe’ in my Bangla text book. It was really a beautiful writing. The way he described Egypt felt to me like he

I created this group with the dream that Search English will become the largest and best platform in Bangladesh for learning English. I feel that we are already half way there. The group has now 8200+ members and within this month, we are hoping to pass 10,000. The group is super active with many posts

If you are a regular visitor to this blog then you should know that I have covered a lot about the economic recession that is going on at this moment in the whole world. When we’re talking about the global recession, most of the time, mainstream media talk about rich and developed countries like America, Canada, Australia, England,France, Germany and so