By bluerasberry on 2016-04-29
I think that the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) is mostly the best museum in the world. It is called an art museum, but like the British Museum or the Louvre, I think of it as a museum presenting the history of various cultures in art objects. When I think of art, I usually […]
Posted in Dhaka, New York City, Wikipedia | Tagged Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Museum of Bangladesh, Richard Knipel
By bluerasberry on 2015-08-02
Every organization which recruits volunteers values their volunteers. Sometimes they even calculate the financial value of their volunteers. This works by recording the cost of a set of volunteer recruitment campaigns, noting how many volunteers become engaged because of those campaigns, then dividing the total cost by the number of volunteers recruited. I am sure […]
Posted in Dhaka, India, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged crowdsourcing, grants
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-19
Tanvir met me at my hotel in the morning and we got in an autorickshaw. He talked about everything we passed detailing what happens in which neighborhood and the sort of development which happens in Dhaka. He proposed his own alternative urban planning schemes including the destruction and rebuilding of entire neighborhoods and and minor […]
Posted in Dhaka, festival, tour | Tagged Chobi Mela, Shabab, Tanvir Rahman
By bluerasberry on 2013-01-31
When I arrived in Dhaka I went to a cell phone store nearby and asked if I could use a phone. I called him, the people at the store described where I was, then he came and retrieved me. He took me to a hotel (Hotel Givenci Int. 76/A, Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue Farmgate, Dhaka […]
Posted in Dhaka, service industry | Tagged hotel, Tanvir Rahman