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Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Plays from Bangladesh Perspectives
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2022-05) Parvin, Shahnaz
The Bard of Avon refuses to be limited in time and space. Shakespeare wrote plays for the late 16th and early 17th Century Elizabethan-Jacobean audience but left thousands of readers and audiences of the world spellbound indicating the timeless nature of his works. In this twenty-first century also, a standard number of people take reading and watching Shakespeare’s plays as a hobby. This level of esteem also has inspired the adaptation of his works by the scholars, translators, and dramatists of Bangladesh. This paper intends to underline the historical background of adaptation of Shakespeare’s works in the subcontinent Bangla plays, and show how worldwide psychological chaos like Othello Syndrome prevails in “Othello ebong (and) Othello” and “Othello Syndrome,” the television dramas of Bangladesh. The study will try to discuss how Shakespeare’s plays relate to the context of Bangladesh and its culture, thus proving Shakespeare’s universality.
Analysing Waliullah's Majeed in Tree Without Roots: An Existential Perspective
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2021-06) Chowdhury, Shahidul Islam
With only five novels to his credit -Lal Shalu (Red Cloth)(1948), Chander Amabasya (Night of No Moon)(1964), Kando Nodi Kando (Cry, River, Cry)(1968), How to Cook Beans (2012), and The Ugly Asian (2013), Syed Waliullah (1922-1971) holds an eminent place in Bengali literature. He had always been quite introspective as an author, focusing more on analysing the psyche of the characters than elaborating on the plot. The protagonists Aref Ali from Chander Amabasya, and M uhammad Mustafa from Kando Nodi Kando are considered to be two of the very first existential characters in Bangladeshi as well as Bengali literature. Majeed from Lal Shalu shares the trait of introspection to a certain degree and the author leads us to his innermost turmoil through extensive use of stream of consciousness, but Majeed is usually considered to be an opportunist fraud feeding upon the religious sentiment of people. However, Tree Without Roots, the English version of Lal Shalu presents a Majeed more contemplative and less villainous in nature, different from his counterpart in the Bengali original. The English version, a revision by the author, differs substantially from the Bengali version and the protagonist in the English version seemingly emerges with an existential undertone. This article aims to focus on the differences between the two versions of the novel as well as the character in question and analyses whether the protagonist can be considered as an existentialist character or not.
Applying Process Theory of Composition to Teach Writing in First-Year Composition Classroom in Bangladesh
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2024-06) Banu, Jainab Tabassurn
My work explores the potential of the process theory of composition to teach writing in first-yea:r composition courses, which a:re mostly grammar-based and product oriented at tertiary levels in Bangladesh. Since most students are non-native users of English, while teaching .first-year composition courses, teachers generally focus more on teaching grammar and then on producing a ftnetuned write-up on the first attempt. However, writing is an active and recursive process that takes time toget the shape of a polished product of the formulized thoughts of a writer. When students do not go through the process of writing in a genre, they end up emulating the structure and sometimes plagiarizing phrases and even ideas. In my article, by analyzing the scholarly works of David Murray, Linda Flower, John Hayes, Janet Emig and other writing scholars, I aim at defining, dividing and discussing the process of writing. I intend to share a few pedagogical strategies that treat writing as a process and encourage multilingual writing teachers to develop declarative and pedagogical content knowledge for teaching writing in English in Bangladesh. I believe, my autoethnographic paper will contribute to the knowledge system that works to help multilingual students to develop their writing skills in English language. Though I take Bangladeshi universities context in my paper, I believe, my argument will matter to the rest of the non-English speaking world.
Artwork Classification and Recognition System based on Convolutional Neural Network
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2022-05) Dhoom, Tanni; Sayeed, Taufique
From ancient ages, artworks have been the object of research in artist identification. Expert art historians primarily handle this issue manually. But an automatic artist recognition system using artwork is compulsory to lower the error percentage, and only a few progressive efforts are undertaken in this field, especially on Bangladeshi Artists. Our Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model aims to determine the painter of a painting with a satisfactory accuracy standard. There are 450 paintings from 6 well-known Bangladeshi artists comprised in our novel dataset. Two different convolution kernels are used in model design, Model-1 has 3 X 3 convolutional kernels, and Model-2 has 5 X 5 kernel size. Our models achieve significantly higher classification accuracy as 87% for Model-1 and 89% for Model-2. Our result evaluation demonstrates that CNNs is not merely a robust learning tool for artist identification but also effective in predicting unique styles of an artisan.
Beckett's Waiting for Godot: An Analysis of Lucky's Enigmatic Speech
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2009) Ali, Chowdhury Mohammad; Chowdhury, Mainul Hasan
Beckett's Waiting for Godot can be a linguistically challenging text which provides deep insight into the psychology of human speech. That our language shapes out of the jelly of words in the Chomskian deep structure becomes the pivot of Beckett's language experimentation in the form of nonsense that we often dissolve in in the moments of intense feeling. Lucky's speech is one of the most subjective and the most poetic of the moments in the play. Besides, the speech is also reflective of the structure of the play. This essay aims at bringing out the intensity of the feeling breaking the apparently haphazard linguistic structure, and thereby showing the meaning of the ostensibly meaningless existence.
Burden of Hosting Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: Impact on Society, Economy and Environment
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2018-07) Jariah, Ainun
Rohingya crisis is the burning issue for the current world. Bangladesh is hosting Rohingya for more than three decades yet there is no solution. In addition, in the present year the new influx of Rohingya creates unbearable burden for our densely populated country and the entrance of Refugees have been gradually increasing. Myanmar-Bangladesh border area is in outrageous condition because of this huge extra population. Even though a wide range of literature is available in the matter of Rohingya Refugees, most of these are restrained to their right based issues and to their access to justice which focus only protection policy issues. This article highlights the issues of present and future socio-economic and environmental impact of huge amount of documented and undocumented Rohingya for their anti-social activities in Bangladesh and challenges for protecting the sovereigns of Bangladesh. This study could make a special contribution in this field by identifying the significant area of impact of Rohingya Refugees specially the undocumented Rohingya in Bangladesh and articulating the challenges ahead for improving the strategy of present mechanism.
Challenges of Cosmopolitan Narrative: Rethinking the Expedition of Indigenous Writer as Self in Postcolonial Literary Paradigm
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2024-06) Saha, Aroop
The cosmopolitan narrative in the postcolonial world has been encountering challenges to provide the otherness narrative a dignified equal place within the cosmopolitan sphere. As cosmopolitanism is constructed on hybridity and universality with the projection of the globalized world, it appears to be the imperial narrative in the national and international domains. Postcolonial cosmopolitan writers, being the agents of cosmopolitanism, are struggling to explore the otherness/subaltern/indigenous self and narrative in authentic representation because the cosmopolitan center cannot understand and exhibit the periphery subject in its narrative. The prime responsibility falls on the postcolonial indigenous writers who are expected to conned the cosmopolitan narrative with the indigenous narrative. Postcolonial indigenous writers can establish themselves in the position of self in the cosmopolitan narrative giving the voice to the silent, invisible indigenous otherness. Notably, the indigenous writers of cosmopolitanism are the integral part of postcolonial hybridity for their dealing with indigenous narratives and cosmopolitan narratives. The aim of this article is to scrutinize the challenges and treatments of postcolonial cosmopolitan narratives towards the construction of indigenous self and narrative. It will also incorporate the indigenous literary endeavor through Canadian Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse: A Novel (2012), Indian Narayan's Kocharethi (2011) and Bangladeshi K. V. Devashis Chakma's Mui Mattei (2013) to explore the possibilities of indigenous narratives to become the part of the cosmopolitan narrative.
Choice, Voice, and Power: An Analysis of Mafijon in Mahbub-Ul-Alam’s Mafijon
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2022-05) Rahim, Abdur
There has been a long debate in the field of knowledge whether women can choose and speak. Colonisation is commonly considered a process of making the colonised people (both men and women) non-speaking agents. For women, it is truer as they experienced colonisation from two edges--the imperial forces and the male domination from outside and within society. Everything in society was designed to put women in the peripheral position. The history of literature has been a biased tradition of entertaining this kind of male attitude but only a few writers have come forward to posit women in other ways. Mahbub Ul Alam, a Chittagonian by birth, a First World War-warrior, and a veteran writer has attempted to portray women in a non-conformist manner in his long story, a novella entitled Mafijon (2003). Under the narrative style of canonical storytelling, he bravely shows how Mafijon, the central character of his novella, proves her existence following a self-directed, revolutionary, and power-oriented self which was unthinkable and uncustomary at the time when the story was written in 1935. In this article, the author aims to establish Mafijon as a powerful woman who chooses, speaks, and speaks to denounce the existing ideologies and the way she gets empowered.
Coetzee's Evaluation of Naipaul
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2006-01) Billah, Quazi Mostain
Constructing Sustainability or Let Them Do It: Alternative Social Assessment in Adult EFL Context
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2023-04) Akther, Kohinoor
This research shores the view of a learner’s subjective and self-reflective role in tile assessment process. Breaking the passive role-playing ground of attempting a test, a test taker as a conscious social independent identify can make a decisive contribution to tile existing evaluation process. Through active participation, and presentation as a positive social impact maker in dealing with various social issues outside the classroom under the umbrella of social assessment, a learner can assess himself or herself. This facilitates one to assess his or her roles in tile existing practices of different modes of formal classroom assessments to make a fresh start to meet the current discontents in the graduates’ employment scenario. Time unemployment rate among university graduates is higher than other times (FE 2020; Bangladesh Employment and labor Market Watch 2018). Apart from pandemic effects and other reasons, this fall alarmingly points to the quality of hillier education, to the most extent at the validity and reliability of the assessment process these graduates have already undergone in their hillier studies. Added with this, the preference of employability skills valued by the employment stakeholders, from hard to soft and social skills (57%) has linen the unemployment problem a new dimension. It gives the impression that the purpose of higher education is not just to produce only but also to create graduates with portable skills and knowledge for successful future employability. A number of studies have addressed quality issues in Hillier education but not many in the country’s Graduate attributes and assessment practices and policies. Therefore, this area needs thoughtful attention to review the existing studies and the strong emphasis on such Gaps. Along with formative/summative classroom assessments, sets of rubrics, and issues of test reliability, it is very important to address tile test taker (learner) in tile social context to address the current employment standards for acquiring both soft and hard skills. In this regard, social assessment within the context of English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) teaching and learning can allow one to gather data 0n ‘21st-century skills’ of the learner, including intra/self-management and interpersonal/people skills. This paper recommends the incorporation of the graduates’ attributes and involvement along with the teachers’ in the tile learning and assessment process. Also, this claims for a paradigm shift in the current assessment practices at higher studies in Bangladesh by incorporating sustainable social assessment principles.
The Consumer Rights Protection Act 2009 in Bangladesh: Revisiting with Reformative Approach
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2016-07) Chowdhury, Ahmad Rajib
Consumer protection through legislative intervention is considered to be the most effective way to ensure the rights of the consumers. The Consumer Rights Protection Act of 2009 was enacted in Bangladesh in order to safeguard the rights of the consumers mainly from hazardous goods and services. Some provisions of reparation by means of compensation, product refunding etc. were inserted here as a part of civil redress process apart from criminal prosecution against the offenders. However, it is a matter of great regret that this unique legislation had been ineffective from the very starting point of its execution in 2009 due to some inherent problems. Problems like bureaucratic constitution and power of National Consumer Rights Protection Council, exclusionary provisions for the consumers' direct access to the court to seek remedy, excessive power of the consumer directorate, limited scope in addressing service sector, absence of legal experts in executing bodies and council, non representation of core consumers from grass root level, shortage of funds of the consumer awareness and advocacy etc. have forcefully made this core consumer protection legislation to remain obsolete till today. This article aims to find out the loopholes of the Consumer Rights Protection Act, 2009 in Bangladesh and to give proper suggestions thereof resorting to comparative analysis especially with India and previous drafts on consumer protection available in Bangladesh.
Corporate Social Responsibility: An Empirical Anecdote
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2016-07) Biswas, Sujan Kanti
The prime objective of the study is to identify the corporate social responsibility practices in private sector enterprises in Bangladesh. It further examines the impact of key company features on the level of social practices. For fulfilling the objective of the study, the data have been collected from the annual reports and working executives of the selected forty private organizations of Bangladesh. In collecting primary data printed developed questionnaire are used. The private sector enterprises' contributions in corporate social responsibility were measured by the fifteen-item social responsibility scale. The major finding of this study is that the private sector enterprises in Bangladesh employ a little money but expected to be responsible to the needs and expectations of the society. Selecting private sector enterprises through convenience sampling method might limit the generalizability of the results of current study. Future research directions are also discussed here.
Crisis Regarding Inheritance of Women in Bangladesh: A Paradigm for Predictable Solutions
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2016-07) Farjana, Yasmin
Equal rights for men and women are guaranteed by the Constitution of Bangladesh. But all laws are not equally applicable for all citizens. It is especially true in case of personal laws of our country, which govern different communities differently. In case of succession to property, Muslim women share less than their male counterparts. In Hindu and Buddhist law, women do not receive any property from their parents as heirs. Even the guaranteed inheritance rights of women are not properly implemented due to lack of consciousness, patriarchal attitudes, political willingness etc. In this paper, I will address the existing personal laws pertaining to women's proprietary rights for their comparison. Such comparisons will provide us with the real scenario facing Bangladeshi womenfolk.
A Critique of John Beames's Assessment of Chittagong in his Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2006-01) Wali, Md. Zabed
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Implementation and Firm Performance: Evidence from Service Industry of Bangladesh
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2018-07) Hossain, Mohammad Rokibul
Customer relationship Management (CRM) has recently become a vital issue for both researchers and professionals as the driving force of the organizational performance. Several studies conducted by both academician and researcher yielded some interesting insights but till date, the extant literature on CRM seems to be very confusing, inconsistent and lack of common conceptualization. There is an urgent need for extending the concept of CRM considering the different domain of it. Thus, to help advance an adhesive body of knowledge on this issue of growing interest among practitioners and academician, this effort aims to investigate through the development and operationalized items of CRM to be implemented in the organization. Based on the resource-based view (RBV) of the firms, the CRM concept can be developed, operationalized and implemented focusing on some basic dimensions of CRM. Different dimensions of CRM that are to be considered to form CRM capabilities incorporate the items like organizing around CRM, incorporating CRM based technology, focusing on the key customer, managing knowledge, business analytic capability and Human analytic capability which are the facilitators to boost business performance. Following the quantitative research methodology, the data were collected through the questionnaire. The survey was administered to the executives who were directly involved in CRM implementation and performance evaluation process in different service firms (banks, insurance, hotel, telecommunication and hospitals) operating in Bangladesh. A multiple regression analysis was used to analyze data and to test hypotheses concerning the relationship between CRM implementation components and form performance. The results support the hypothesized influence on form performance. The study contributes to the literature by developing a six factor model of CRM practices in the service organization. Managers of different industry can use the model to incorporate CRM in their forms. The manager may also be able to allocate the budget and resources to form CRM using this model.
Diasporic Anxiety and Ambivalence in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2023-04) Islam, Md Rafiqul
This paper explores diasporic tensions like identity crisis, anxiety, and ambivalence in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake. It argues that Gogol, a representative of the Indian-born American, suffers a more acute identity crisis, anxiety, and ambivalence than his parents do. Ashoke and Ashima, the first-generation emigrants, resist hybridized identity and keep a conscious connection with the root by maintaining Indian culture, religion, and ideologies in their host land America. On the other hand, Gogol faces severe crises with his name right after his birth and desperately tries to assimilate into the mainstream American culture and tradition, but finally realizes, with deeper shock, that he belongs nowhere. His attraction to the host country and its culture turns out to be repulsive and produces ambivalence in him. Gogol succeeds in becoming an American ‘almost total’ but ’not quite’. This paper draws on the relevant post-colonial concepts like hybridity, mimicry, and ambivalence advocated by Homi K. Bhabha, and validates the argument that Gogol is fated to become a diasporic nomad.
Diasporic Dilemma in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2009) Rahim, Abdur
Jhumpa Lahiri's second literary contribution, The Namesake, published in 2003, is a novel on the Indian diaspora. Indian history of diaspora is a long one, but after independence, it has caught the attention of creative writers. The novel records the everyday life of the Indian immigrants who went to America after independence. It can be assumed that as an immigrant's daughter, the novelist is familiar with the problems of immigrants living in America concerning their norms and values, their culture, religion, language, and above all, their identity. This paper is an analysis of the effects of the diaspora faced by the characters in The Namesake.
Diplomatic Immunity from Criminal Jurisdiction and its Abuse: A Critical Perspective
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2016-07) Qudder, Fhameda
The rules regarding diplomatic relation are one of the earliest expressions of international law which exists to establish and maintain communication between States in order to achieve commercial, political, and legal objectives. Diplomatic immunity is one of the casual practices whereby diplomats are exempted from various legal obligations considering their Junctions and honoring their status. Unfortunately, this Is frequently observed that due to misinterpretation and failure to realize the true spirit of immunity, they do misuse or abuse those immunities specially the absolute immunity from criminal jurisdiction. Taking into account the importance of diplomatic immunity, this write up beginning focuses on the meaning, historical evaluation and basis of immunity. And then the write up critically analyse the present immunity feature and practical scenario of abuse of immunity. Finally it focuses on the point of remission and prevention of immunity within the contemporary scheme of international diplomatic law.
Discussing the Trends in the Editing of Shakespeare’s Plays: From the Early 17th Century to the Postmodern Time
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2021-06) Alam, Mohit Ul
This paper summarizes the editing trends on Shakespeare’s works from the early modern period to the advent of digital texts. In doing this, I have highlighted the moral burden with which editors om Heminges and Condell through the eighteenth-century editors down to the New Bibliographers have tried to improve on Shakespeare, or, thereby, to re-present him from different editorial perspectives: from viewing the editor as a parent to viewing his as an inspector of facts and figures. In preparing this essay I have depended on certain scholarly essays, which I have acknowledged within the text. I have also stood by the postmodernist perception that a unitary text for a Shakespearean play is never possible to establish.
Dislocation and the Making of the Self: An Analysis of Rajkumar in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace from a Postcolonial Perspective
(Premier University, Chattogram, 2023-04) Rahim, Abdur
Dislocation is a perennial issue in some of Amitav Ghosh’s novels. In postcolonial literature, the theme of dislocation appears as the result of the imbalanced interaction between the classes- the colonisers and the colonised. Moreover, dislocation is an inevitable experience for those who are affected by native elitism. The colonised people are dislocated geographically and psychologically. In addition, they experience geographical dislocation both internally and externally. Rajkumar is dislocated in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace ds the eventual outcome of his peripheral identify. He is affected socially, culturally, religiously, economically, psychologically, and above all, ideologically because of his dislocation and thus, his dislocation is multifarious. Though he is able to change his identity substantially through gain in his dislocated life, he is bound to experience uncertainty in the long run. The process of loss and gain puts him in a strange psychological state. My attempt in this essay is to analyze firstly, how Rajkumar, the protagonist in The Glass Palace, is dislocated, and secondly, what he loses and achieves in the process of dislocation and finally, what type of self he eventually forms.