Palash Basak's Blog

While I was visiting the website of OmicronLab to download a Bangla Typing Software, Avro Keyboard, I have found an interesting map showing the visitors of the site. The map clearly shows that Bangla Speaking community (both from Bangladesh and India) is present in every part of the world! Throughout 2008, there were over 1.6 lakh (0.16 million) visitors in the site. People from 172 countries visited the site. About half of the visitors came from outside Bangladesh or India. If you consider visitors by country then India is the top (about 48,000). More than 34,000 visitors were from Bangladesh. United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Australia, Italy, Japan, Germany, United Arab Emirates and Malaysia are in the top list of the visitors. You can find details about the visitors in the following link http://www2.clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://omicronlab.com

In the last page of Prothom Alo today (6 Jan 2009), an article has been published on "Neel Shaluk". The author (Sourav Mahmud) wrote a nice introduction of the flower and put a picture which was captured from Boga Lake, Bandarban. While traveling to Kuakata in September 2008, I took a picture of the same flower from a road side water-body somewhere in between Mohipur and Kuakata. The flower is really beatiful.

I'm a voter of Dhaka-12 Constituency. As a geographer, I was looking the physical boundary of the Constituency. Finally, I found it in the website of Bangladesh Election Commission. If you are interested to see your constituency map, see the following blog... Constituency Maps of Bangladesh

An interesting article has been published in The Daily Star about why we should use "Bangla" instead of " Bengali " as the name of our mother language. To read the article, click the following link... http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=69990

Wish you and your family a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2009!