In Pursuit of Wisdom

Two wrongs doesn't make a right. Just is justice is regardless of who is the oppressor and who is being oppressed. A criminal has no religion, nation or ethnicity. He/she is just a criminal regardless. I dont mind questions, but I do mind accusations!  ISIS has as much to do with Islam as Ku Klux Klan had to do with Christianity.  Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why. - Interesting Engineer's post in Facebook Religions are embedded in culture and culture is inclusive of political and economic influences. History is written by victors.   "Stop looking down upon others – Allah might forgive them for their ignorance, but might not forgive you for your arrogance" - (shaykh yadir qadhi)  ghum bhangley shokal, na bhangle porokal

The recent TubeMogul Chess Club vs DropBox Chess Club ended up being a big margin victory for DropBox with a 3.5 - 0.5 score. The tournament was held at San Francisco Mechanics Chess Institute at December 3rd. In the first board I drew my game while at other 3 boards we lost. Mechanics Director IM John Donaldson analyzed this game and was published in next TNM newsletter - http://chessclub.org/news.php?n=730 

I have read, watched and listened enough in my life to wonder how come I haven't compiled a list of my favorite quotes or excerpts from those? This is an attempt to remedy that missing piece. I hope this will help me get back to my favorites as and when I need to revisit them. (1) Fuler Bone Jar Pashe Jay, Tarei Lagey Bhalo - by Rabindranath Tagore This is one of the many such romnatic dialogues from Rabindranath Tagore who needs no introduction. I just picked one from his rich wealth to show my tribute to him. Below are the lyrics of the song and the full youtube video song sung by Rezwana Choudhury Bannya চাঁদের হাসির বাঁধ ভেঙেছে, উছলে পড়ে আলো।  ও রজনীগন্ধা, তোমার গন্ধসুধা ঢালো ॥  পাগল হাওয়া বুঝতে নারে ডাক পড়েছে কোথায় তারে--  ফুলের বনে যার পাশে যায় তারেই লাগে ভালো ॥  নীল গগনের ললাটখানি চন্দনে আজ মাখা,  বাণীবনের হংসমিথুন মেলেছে আজ পাখা।  পারিজাতের কেশর নিয়ে ধরায়, শশী, ছড়াও কী এ।   ইন্দ্রপুরীর কোন্ রমণী বাসরপ্রদীপ জ্বালো ॥ (2)...

Today I finished listening to one of the most significant lecture series in my life - Dr. Yasir Qadhi 's Series of Lectures on Seerah of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) . Initially I was listening to it from YouTube after knowing about it from Wali Bhai. Later Amin told me that he found an iPhone App named Yasir Qadhi where all these lectures are available in audio format and I could download it and listen to the audios offline. So this saved my data plan as in my first month I already crossed my 40GB plan just by listening to it while driving to office and coming back. It's a 104 part lecture series containing approximately 175 hours of lectures by Pakistani descent but American muslim scholar Dr. Yasir Qadhi who stayed in Madina for 10 years for his islamic studies. Any muslim or non-muslim will be moved listening to this series. You will learn to be humble, polite, wise and humane to others. Dr. Yasir focused mainly on 2 things - rigorous academic analysis of Prophet's...

In 2015, BABA had successfully conducted the following events for the bay area bangladeshi community: BABA reception for Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder of BRAC. BABA Shadhinota Dibosh Celebration featuring Partha Barua. BABA reception for Ambassador Bernicat and Congressman Honda. Bay Area Bangladeshi Soccer Tournament, 2015. Fund/Special Items donation to the BN Ashar Alo (A school for special needs children) with the help of BNS Samudra Avijan management.  BABA Eid Reunion Celebration 2015 featuring Tapan Chowdhury and Chandan Zaman Ali.