One of the plays of five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize, Maxim Gorky, was improvised in Bengali and was named Abirampaurutibhakshan (eating loaves continuously).

When I joined the central bank more than two years ago, I witnessed the proposal of big loan restructuring. One phrase economists care about is “moral hazards.”

The budget is a seasonal music that hardly runs out of notes. Most people criticise it as ambitious although that is how it ought to be.

In 1971, my father took us to Meghalaya where our painful refugee life began. We were on daily rations. As a little boy, I used to stand in the queue and sometimes rations ran out before I reached the counter.

The two tests my school friends hated the most were English and Math. When I was a college boy at a Dhaka residential school, one of my friends did not eat egg for breakfast on the date of English exams lest he scores less in the subject.

My university in Upstate New York once sent all its faculty members to Raquette Lake for meditation and brainstorming research ideas.

After the announcement of the new monetary policy for January-June 2017, the stock market faced a rapid decline, suggesting a negative response of the capital market to the central bank's stance and attitude.

Over every summer, I leave the US to visit my village in Nalitabari where I look after construction work and run an online class for the students of mainly upstate New York.

In 1900, Argentina looked like a promising country with respectable growth. It was queueing to be an industrialised country like many other western European nations.

The challenges on the international front the year 2017 will pose will be less impactful than domestic debility in private investment. Macro stability will continue to persist without remarkable improvement in the financial sector.