| October 2nd, 2006

Crucial Conversations

Consider these scenarios: You are talking to your boss about a promotion you deserve but she thinks you are not ready yet. You notice that your husband is not throwing the trash as he is supposed to, you bring that up (in a not-so-pleasant way) and before you know you two end up in a heated [...]

 
| September 14th, 2006

Something Makes Me Very Hopeful

This picture captures a moment in a women’s football tournament in Bangladesh. Courtesy: Prothom Alo

 
| August 28th, 2006

Arranged Marriages: Then and Now

[Note: This article has nothing against arranged marriage nor did I suggested a love marriage as a solution. I merely pointed out the fact that when finding a life partner, qualities of a human being should be given its due importance over the popular attributes (family status, look, job, degree). That is what I meant [...]

 
| July 6th, 2006

Feeding Battles: No one wins

Imagine a day you are not having a good appetite, two people hold you tight and put a spoonful of your not-so-favorite food in your mouth, and they continue this for half an hour! Sounds ridiculous, right? Replace yourself with an 18 month old toddler and  those two people by her parents. Now you can [...]

 
| June 20th, 2006

Emotional Intelligence

Zeena had a fight (heated arguments) with her partner. Later, when she thinks about it she feels ashamed as how immature she behaved! Yet she doesn’t want to admit it to her partner thinking that would make her look like a looser. Ultimately their relationship degrades. Perhaps Zeena and her partner could have done much [...]

 
| May 30th, 2006

When to get married: Before or after graduation?

These days I am seeing some articles (Biye: Porashona Sheshe, na Majhei) going on in the women’s pages on this topic, when is the right time for a woman to get married: before or after graduation from college (Undergraduate program). Recently I received an article from a young woman from Dhaka on the same topic. [...]

 
| April 17th, 2006

Story of a Leader

I found this article about an outstanding woman leader Majeda Begum. I am attaching some of it here to share with our readers. Source: Tanzina Hossain @ Prothom Alo

 
| April 5th, 2006

E-learning: Career move w/o moving from home

Couple of days someone asked me about Microsoft Certification courses. I looked at the website and found there are e-learning opportunities that can help one with his/her next project or to take their career to the next level. I thought most popular ones will be SQL Server, Visual Studio and Office. Most of them are [...]

 
| March 28th, 2006

Resume writing tips

Recently I have been reviewing lots of resumes for some software positions in our team. So I decided to post some tips that might come in handy while preparing a resume. My feedback is based on the resumes of the candidates having a BS/MS on Computer Science with zero to couple of years of industry [...]

 
| March 23rd, 2006

Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget

These days I am reading this book; its opening my eyes. Now I can explain many behaviors in men and women in much better way than just getting mad at them:). Here is a description of the book from Amazon: Men and women ARE different . . . and this book from the founder of gender [...]

 

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Adhunika blog is launched with a mission to share knowledge among women from every walk of life. Sometime it would be in the form of sharing experience to find a feasible solution of a problem; sometime it would be in the form of professional consultation, which Adhunika group will arrange for its bloggers. Nevertheless, the intent of this blog always remains the same - to help and empower women through a common web-based platform....read more

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