It's always interesting and rewarding to be in the company of more intelligent people than one self. And in my case the outsmarting is a no-challenge.
Dhaka Literature Festival this weekend was a three days event offering an intellectual candy store for book lovers, academics, thinkers and the rest of us.
The event arranged by Dhaka Tribune at the premises of University of Dhaka was a wonderful, positive surprise in the middle of the rather insecure and grey situation here otherwise.
The festival offered dozens of interesting debates with well known writers and scholars. Lots of people - well of course, this is a city with 20 million people - a beautiful setting and a schedule that was on time. A new and encouraging experience.
Sometimes you hope that things would never stop. I had this feeling while listening to Professor Rehman Sobhan. No mistake here, I had no idea who this guy was. But what a star!
His eloquence, knowledge and humour took the audience through the recent history of Bangladesh, or the march to independence through his personal memoirs.
Enough candy now and back to reality: we are still blocked from the social media. Kids, keep on sending e-mails.
I have a feeling that things can now turn to normal or even better or then to even more devastating chaos.
The war criminals are still waiting to be hanged and the opposition leader returns to Dhaka from a few months stay in London tonight.
The pictures are even more awful than normally, blame Iphone.
Edit: This rather - hm - explicit newspaper illustration states the situation now.
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