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    Mission Lawachara

    The last stop on our three-day study tour of Sylhet. Birds, crickets and more trees than I could name, so here are the ones I managed to write down.

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  • A day in Comilla with the Chapainawabganj crowd

    A one-day picnic to Comilla with the Shibganj students’ association. Ten buses named after mangoes, an awful jam at Kanchpur, a water park and a ride home at dawn.

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    My first university picnic

    Our botany department’s picnic at Bhawal National Park. An early bus, red water lilies from a boat, a ride through the forest and a three-legged race we won.

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  • Was he really a rickshaw puller?

    Cramming before an exam, we were stopped by a rickshaw puller with a compound interest sum and an English grammar question. I still don’t know who he really was.

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  • The battles of life

    An afternoon with visually impaired students at a SOJJA event, and a fresh look at my own life, which has everything and still feels like it lacks something.

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  • Risk

    Walking the wrong way from Kakoli, then letting the better bus go, taught me something small but true. No risk, no gain.

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  • The daily commute in Dhaka

    I woke up late and stood at the main road watching packed bus after packed bus go by. A few thoughts on catching a bus in Dhaka and its so-called seating service.

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  • What water teaches us

    However hard you strike it, water comes back together. Put it on uneven ground and it still finds its level. A few things water can teach us, if we listen.

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    What a tree teaches us

    A tree gives fruit, flowers and wood all its life and asks for very little. Even when nobody looks after it, it keeps giving until the very end.

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  • One night, on patience and anger

    On a night I couldn’t sleep, I told my younger brother about my failures. He gave me two simple pieces of advice. Be patient, and never get angry.

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