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Adhunika team is looking for women bloggers who are passionate about empowering women by creating awareness. Our focus is mainly on women who are from Bangladesh; however there are many topics that can assist any women regardless of their national origin. 

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

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Being single or staying single is becoming more common these days for both women and men. In the western world, it is a choice of living for many. In Bangladesh, being single is more circumstantial rather than a choice. Two most generic reasons for being single are, not finding the right partner to live with, or getting a divorce. We would like to take a look at the hard facts of staying single; how the society is treating a single person, especially single woman. This is a huge area of discussion; therefore, we invite our readers to put their thoughts into this.

I know a Bangladeshi woman, highly educated, never got married. I know another woman who was once married, now divorced.  Both are independent, holding good professional positions in two different cities in the US. And yet, they both carefully avoid the Bengali communities in their areas.  Because people would bad-mouth, talk against their backs only because they are single.  Bangladeshi single women whether they live in Bangladesh or in the western countries, face similar difficulties. Whether she is unmarried or divorced, the society would try to blame her. If she is highly educated, the society would blame her education and independence for her single being. (more…)

Join us paying homage to our war heroes and in celebrating Independence Day of Bangladesh.

March 26 - the day Independence of Bangladesh was formally declared on the eve of a 9 month long war of Independence with Pakistan that led to the emergence of Bangladesh as a sovereign nation. After many years of exploitation, both politically and economically, the Bengali national sentiments led to the massive victory of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the Awami League in the Pakistan National Elections of 1970. The ruling oligarchs in the then West Pakistan balked at having to give up the reigns of power to East Pakistanis. They stalled the installation of the newly elected parliament, and on the dark night of March 25, 1971 embarked on a genocidal reign of terror aimed at extinguishing all signs of Bengali nationalism. In the face of this, the inevitable declaration of independence was proclaimed, and the fight was on for the people of Bangladesh to achieve independence, at a terrible price of 3 million people killed by the marauding armies of Pakistan.  (Source: http://www.virtualbangladesh.com/history/)

Picture of Jahanara Imam (May 3, 1929 - June 26, 1994)who was a writer and political activist. She is most widely remembered for her endeavor to bring war criminals of the Bangladesh Liberation War to trial. (Photo by Late Mufti Munir)

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A Bangladeshi women in Dhaka showing support for Bangladesh Cricket team.

photo courtesy: Drishtipat blog

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“My Mother in law hates everything I do, always she finds fault in me, I don’t feel like talking to her”

“I am very unhappy with my daughter in law… all these time we looked for a nice girl for my son (and thought we found this one) but now she misbehaves with us!”

“That wife of his is not good for our son, he never behaved like this before, its all her doing…”

“I am the one work all day and my husband just lies down in the couch and watch TV”

“My husband never understands my feelings”

Dear readers, do these sound familiar to you? If so then you are not alone. There are millions of women out there irrespective of race and ethnicity have feelings like these. Not only the home makers, we have many women today studying Science, Engineering, Economics and are doing very well in their professional lives but struggling hard when it comes to dealing with relationship conflicts. (more…)

From our archive:

As May rolls around, it is the perfect time to start finalizing your ideas about graduate school applications. Just like undergraduate applications, applying to graduate school is quite a lengthy process. Especially if it is the first time that you are applying to study overseas, there are many factors that you need to consider as you apply for admissions.

Choice of Program: Some of us are quite lucky in having a clear idea and vision about where we want to study. We have spoken to professionals in our projected career path, or perhaps to college professors to get a better idea about the type of university and program that we should be applying to. (more…)

Leena is the favorite daughter of her affluent parents. She is good looking, she is a brilliant student, and she just got her Bachelors degree from one of the top schools in Dhaka. To pursue her career further she wants to go to a graduate school in the US. But her parents want her to get married before she goes abroad because they think that way the husband will be there to take care of her. Leena is not too sure about getting married but at the same time she haven’t seen any girl like her going abroad all by herself. So when there comes a proposal from a guy working in a reputed company in the US, Leena thinks,  since she has to get married anyway this might be a good option for her since this way she can easily go to the US and then pursue her studies there. When Leena finally gets married and comes to the US, she realizes she doesn’t really like this guy, apparently her husband has no bad habits but Leena can’t really get along with him. Now what? She is trying to decide whether she should stay with the guy until she get her studies completed or should she just break up the marriage and go back home to her parents.

Dear readers, in my opinion, Leena wouldn’t have to put herself in this dilemma if she were brave and honest enough to clearly state her wishes even before getting married. She shouldn’t have agreed to marry a person just because it might be easier for her to come to the US. Many people will disagree here with me saying, “Well, girls don’t have a choice” — I say yes, in many cases but not as always as we think. It’s your life so if you are not going to take action, you have to take responsibility for that. If you already got a bachelors degree then you should be capable enough to figure out what you really want and what you can do for it. I would like to share my own experience in this context. (more…)

As we celebrate Adhunika’s fifth anniversary on the eve of International Women’s Day, we would like to ask our bloggers, what do you want to see changed in your lives to establish equality in your daily life? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is your opportunity to tell us what you would like us to discuss at the Blog, we will consider to discuss topics ‘you think’ we should address here.  If you don’t want to share your name with the readers, you can also be anonymous when you send us your idea. Thank you for your co-operation.