Tangents / The Allure of Little Birds
4 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Birders may go through many phases in their birding life.
4 February 2022, 18:00 PM
TANGENTS / Book Hounds
7 January 2022, 18:00 PM
We are a perpetually curious group. Like members of secret societies of the Middle Ages, we quickly recognize each other.
7 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Tangents / The Enigmatic Thick-knee
31 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Whenever I hear “Thick-knee” I think of Majeda Haq, birder, conservationist and friend who left this world too soon in 2019.
31 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Tangents / Good-looking Birds
24 December 2021, 18:00 PM
We all have our notion of “good-looking” when it comes to people. This idea extends to other creatures.
24 December 2021, 18:00 PM
TANGENTS / The Dining Room
17 December 2021, 18:00 PM
One of my most memorable jobs was being waiter. My cousins in Chicago had invited me to spend the summer after college freshman year. Looking for summer work there, I responded to a newspaper advertisement and was hired after an interview. My title was Waiter at the restaurant of Metropolitan Club on the 67th floor of Chicago’s Sears (now Willis) Tower.
17 December 2021, 18:00 PM
TANGENTS / Predators of Muhuri
10 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Screaming loudly and wildly flapping their wings, the ducks abruptly took off from the water about two hundred feet from our boat.
10 December 2021, 18:00 PM
TANGENTS / Red Munia
3 December 2021, 18:00 PM
The Red Munia entered my childhood through a story about the Creator painting birds after creating them. However, one fidgety bird has flown off before being painted and returns just when He finishes. There are a few drops of paint remaining with which He splatters this bird. And so this exquisite bird was created with spots of white sprinkled on red.
3 December 2021, 18:00 PM
TANGENTS / Primates of Bangladesh
26 November 2021, 18:00 PM
On a summer morning several years ago I climbed up the watchtower in Satchori National Park looking for birds. In two hours I saw little.
26 November 2021, 18:00 PM
An Avian Bonanza
One morning last October, the birder Omar Shahadat and his friends crossed the Buriganga river from Dhaka into Keraniganj and
3 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Blossom
It is spring and blossoms are blooming for many of our summer fruits. While the mango blossom has been immortalized in our national
27 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Spring in National Botanical Garden
Winter is our main birding season as migrant bird species arrive here from colder climates. At the end of winter, most birders – including myself - feel a touch of sadness at the departure of the migrants.
13 March 2015, 18:42 PM
Lohakath
The first time I saw lohakath was some years ago during monsoon on my way to Padma Resort with friends. About an hour from Dhaka, near Louhojong, I noticed roadside groves of tall, elegant trees with leaves of deep green. My friend Micky informed me they were lohakath trees, so called because the wood was so hard that it was impossible to hammer a nail (loha) into the wood.
6 March 2015, 18:32 PM
The Writing Life
I have loved books since childhood and somewhere along the way I also became interested in writing. In my twenties and thirties
21 February 2015, 00:31 AM