BBPA Magazine

Careers in a Trading Environment in the City

Purnendu Nath is a former City trader, who has recently completed a PhD at the London Business School. In this short piece, he offers some advice to fellow members who are contemplating a career in the City. Read

A British-Bangladeshi scientist turn a weed into a life saving material for removing arsenic from water

A team led by Dr Parvez I. Haris from De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom have developed a cheap and effective way of removing arsenic from water which may benefit the health of millions of people in many countries around the world including Bangladesh which is the victim of one of the largest mass poisonings in human history. Read

Anwar Choudhury' Address to the BBPA

The guest of honour at the BBPA's Charity Gala Dinner held on 5 December 2004 was Mr Anwar Choudhury, who is now the British High Commissioner to Bangladesh. Anwar, a long standing supporter and member of the BBPA was the first British ambassador of ethnic minority background. This is a transcript of his address to the BBPA. Read

Kobiguru Robindronath

I don’t remember when I first heard about Kobiguru. As far as I could recall, I heard a song when I was very young in some Bengali drama... Roni Mehboob on Rabindranath Tagore Read

The BBPA's Career Development Network

Why is there such a gulf in the popular perception of Indians and Bangladeshis in the United Kingdom? In this article, BBPA Director, A. Rahman explores some of the fundamental issues underlying the historically poor performance of Bangladeshi's in the education system, argues that the story is not so bad, and outlines the objectives of the BBPA Careers Development Network. Read

Rain of life and other poems by KM Tarek

Khandker Tarek is a 26 year old Creative Director of Protishabda, an advertising agency based in Dhaka that is affiliated with Saatchi&Saatchi worldwide advertising network. Read

Sally Keeble's Address to the BBPA

Sally Keeble, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development was invited to a dinner organised by the BBPA's International Development Group. This is the transcript of her addressto the BBPA. Read

Bangladesh's Warrior Queens

Women, it seems are no strangers to South Asian politics. Modern history has shown that the Indian sub-continent has had proportionately more femae prime-ministers than their western counterparts. Manzur Qureshi, looks into the reasons behind this phenomenon. Read

Immigration and the Primary Purpose Rule

As a practising lawyer, Tufyal Choudhury has first hand experience of the legalities of UK immigration policy and its implication for Bangladeshi women. In this article he takes a look at current exchanges and how they have been interpreted by the media. Read

History of Bangladesh - The Buddhist Era (2500-268BC)

Bangladeshi history played a significant part in the development of the Indian subcontinent. In this serialisation of the subject, Dr Mukid Choudhury has balanced current impressions of Bangladesh with a broad historic look at what once was, and is again becoming, a prosperous and important regional centre, making us aware that the artificial modern borders imposed by politics mask an important, culturally diverse regional context that has cried out for explication. Read

Role of women

Has the role of Bangladeshi women in the UK changed over the last 10 years? Shahahan Pramanik writes with contributions from Sophia Khan and Nasfim Haque Read

The United Kingdom, Bangladesh & Globalisation – Submission on Government White Paper

This was the submission on the Uk Goverment's white paper - the United Kingdom, Bangladesh and Globalisation, organised by the BBPA's International Development Group. Read

Use Of Discipline Or Abuse Of Authority

Nilufa Mannan a solicitor from Oldham, Lancashire, takes a frank and often disturbing look into domestic violence and how it is treated within the Bangladeshi community. Read