A Collection of Articles (Hardcover)

This collection includes articles on various themes I have written between September 2018 and April 2024. There are 55 articles in total of which 51 were published in The Daily Star, the largest circulated English newspaper in Bangladesh. The articles I have written were on economic and social issues, urban and regional problems, children and women's issues; and also, on delays in project implementation, project monitoring and evaluation, local government financing, poverty alleviation, etc. The first article of this collection is titled "Bangabandhu's development vision and the unfinished work". I think it is appropriate to put this article in the very beginning because a country's development vision is what guides the nation towards the right direction. The father of the nation, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman wanted to build a prosperous Bangladesh, free from poverty, hunger, corruption and exploitation. On the first anniversary of independence, in 1972, Bangabandhu said "We will turn this war-ravaged country into a golden one. In the Bengal of the future, mothers will smile and children will play. It