VOL – 3, ISSUE – 2

Pablo Neruda: Poetics and Politics

Author : Md. Asif Kamal
Abstract: The paper explores the predicament in Pablo Nerudaā€™s dual commitment to poetry and politics and argues that they, though generically different in vocations, are inseparably interdependent. Nerudaā€™s whole life is characterized by a renewed impetus for change and by a command to go beyond his own attainment. His poetic mind responded to the same as the situation and environment demanded: sometimes to the intensely personal emotion or sometimes to the sociology-political public affairs. This is true that the proper place of each major section of his work, political or nonpolitical, needs to be settled on its uniqueness, in the larger context of modern poetry as well as in the more personal context of his total work. This, too, cannot be ignored that his socially concerned and politically charged poems were evidently produced during his mature and diversely experienced age after an equally serious period of personal crises. The final poetic result is a unified whole where no associated ideas can be compartmentalized. Neruda smoothly balanced his equally important twofold commitments: towards poetry and people; and even after his serious dilemma, the booming accomplishments of these commitments finally branded him as poet-politician Pablo Neruda.
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Teaching Literature Using Task Based Approach in Bangladeshi Tertiary EFL Classroom

Author : Md. Asif Nawaz1
Abstract : This paper provides a review of ideas and research regarding the role of task based approach in teaching literature in the Bangladeshi tertiary level education. Firstly it sketches the position of literature in the 18th and mid 19th century in terms of teaching English as a foreign language and the role of task in academia. Secondly it elaborates the positive effects that could be drawn from the task based system in teaching literature while focusing on learnersā€™ ability to develop different interpersonal skills. Finally, this paper draws on a field work that shows the attitude which could be drawn towards the task based approach in terms of teaching literature.
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Good Governance in Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects

Author : Badrul Hasan,Munira Sultana,Md. Nazmul Hasan
Abstract : In the recent time, ā€˜governanceā€™ and ā€˜good governanceā€™ are being increasing used in development literature. A dramatic change has come in public administration and the paradigm shift towards good governance and sustainable developments. Day by day, the intellectuals, bureaucrats and civil society members are accepting the spirit of the concept and conceptualizing it in their own experience and environment. In Bangladesh, all the internal and external actors of politics, administration and development are emphasizing on the need for good governance. Good governance is almost imperative for the socioeconomic development of Bangladesh. But our country has been facing virus of poor or malgovernance which is visible in every arena of public life. Against this backdrop, this study attempts to evaluate the overall state of governance in Bangladesh from an institutional perspective. It also analyzes the bottlenecks and prospects of good governance in Bangladesh. Finally, this paper suggests a set of measures to be undertaken in an effort to establish good governance in Bangladesh.
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Modernization and the Opportunity Factors of Crime: Dhaka City Experience

Author : Md. Bashir Uddin Khan,Mohammad Ashraful Alam ,Md. Omar Faruk
Abstractā€” Modernization is a process which drives a society ahead. This process always is not appreciated by all and necessarily involves different calculations in response to the cultural and philosophical diversity. Modernization creates competition which involves elements of criminal activities. This study focuses on the issue in what extent modernization facilitates or creates opportunity factors of crimes. Perception analysis of the respondents provides an idea about the modernization-induced crimes. Increasing number of broken families, declining kinship, deteriorating family integrity, weakening religious practices and transformation of extended families into nuclear families are putting impact on individualā€™s psychology and thought to have manifestations with criminal outbreaks. Mobile, internet, satellite TV and other means of communication sometimes are provoking city people to be involved in crimes. This study was an effort to justify whether modernization puts any impact on the above factors (termed as opportunity factors) which are considered as important reasons of criminal behavior.
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Factors Affecting the Prices of Rice in Bangladesh from the Perspective of Growers and Sellers

Author : Mohammad Ekramol Islam, Farzana Chowdhury
Abstract: Bangladesh is an agricultural country. Rice is the main food of our country. But day by day the price rate of rice is increasing dramatically. There might have many reasons behind this price hiking in Bangladesh. Using primary data, among fifteen components the present study extracted four principal factors by factor analysis method. Based on these results we concluded that some external factors like political crisis, natural calamities, lack of government patronization; price inflation factor like price hike of fuel fertilizer and rice in international market; unavailability of ingredient factor like scarcity of seeds and fertilizers were identified as key determinants of price hike of rice. The results also revealed that lack of proper inventory management and strong supply chain that constitute factor of inventory control is one of the main reasons for this issue. The outcome of this research will indicate that huge emphasis must be given to the storage capacity. So in the moment of crisis, demand can be satisfied easily and price control can be made properly. Therefore, issues and relations underlying price fluctuations need to be properly investigated before formulating and implementing any policies.
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Psychic Isolation and Alienation of Subarna and Nanda Kaul in Ashapurna Deviā€™s Subarnalata and Anita Desaiā€™s Fire on the Mountain respectively.

Author :Pragati Das
Abstract: Representation of mental agony, isolation, and psychic crisis is a significant trend in literary wrings especially in novels. Ours is an age of greatspiritual stress and strain. Here people suffer from inner problem—a conviction of isolation, alienation, detachment, meaninglessness in every sphere of life. These things are delineated both in Bangla and English novels. Almost all the novelists try to explore these themes in their writings. Ashapurna Devi is a prominent Bengali novelist and Anita Desai is a renowned novelist who writes in English. Though they are from different ages and the medium of their writings is different, their perspectives and the ways of representations can be merged. Their views are to focus on the predicament of women in the male dominated society. In Indian subcontinent women are crushed by social pressure. This pressure creates isolated people, who are dislocated from their environment and from their own reality, that is to say their vision of life and of the world. Society alienates them and this deep feeling of isolation appears in different ways in the novels. They have tried to uphold these crises in their novels. This paper attempts to uphold the psychic isolation and alienation of these two novelistsā€™ female characters- Subarna and Nanda Kaul who have suffered from privation and humiliations, negligence and silence, alienation and seclusion.
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Female Age at Marriage of Rural-Urban Areas in Bangladesh : An Evaluation

Author : Md. Shahidul Islam
Abstract : The main aim of the study is to find out those factors that are influencing the female age at marriage in Bangladesh both in rural and urban areas, so as to manipulate to rise age at marriage and thereby to control fertility and population growth. Data was collected by Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) in 2007.Statistical techniques are used to analysis the data whenever warranted. Chi-square test was performed to find the association between age at marriage and background factors of Bangladeshi females. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify the factors which were responsible for the age at marriage among ever-married females.
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The Grameen Bank in Enhancing Efficiency/ Skills of its Clients: A Reluctant Partnership

Author : Shaira Matin
Abstract: The argument for providing microfinancial services in this article is not the conventional microcredit argument that supply-driven microcredit services alone to poor women puts them on a conveyer belt that takes them over the poverty line. Rather, the argument is more grounded in the reality of being poor and those demand-responsive non-financial services especially skill/efficiency enhancing efforts alongside the high quality microfinancial services can help the poor to help themselves overcome their problems. Taking the Grameen Bank (GB) of Bangladesh as a case study, this article explores the provision of client-responsive microfinancial product and skill/efficiency enhancing services and the principles that could be followed by the GB in order to achieve the goal of significant poverty alleviation for rural poor women in Bangladesh.
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Socio-Economic Impact of Ecopark: A study on Sitakunda Ecopark

Author :Salma Honey
Abstract: Recently, Bangladesh Government has taken initiative to establish ecoparks at different places of the country. The first ecopark has been inaugurated at Chandranath Hill and surrounding areas, located in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong. Two other ecoparks are to be established in the Madhabkunda and Muraichara forest areas located respectively in Kulaura and Baralekha upazilas of Maulvi Bazar district. These locations are rich with natural evergreen and semi-evergreen tree species along with plantation forests. A Safari park is being developed since 1998-99 in the Dulahazra forest area of Cox’s Bazar district. To retain the natural beauty and conserve biodiversity in and around Sitapahar forest area, near the famous hydroelectric dam of Kaptai, another National Park similar to that of the Madhupur Sal forest is being developed since 1999. Another ecopark site is being developed in the Sameshchura Sal forest of Sherpur district. Recently, the Government of Bangladesh has started developing ST MARTIN’S ISLAND as an ecopark with an aim to promote tourism.This study help us to evaluate the sociology-economic impact of
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