03/09/2026
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗵𝗮𝗸𝗮 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆?
For almost two years, I am blessed to be associated with the PUST Career and Entrepreneurship Club (PUSTCEC) as its 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿.
This affiliation is much more than a university club.
It is about a question that matters deeply to me: How do we make opportunity more accessible to talent; wherever that talent may be?
Because here is something we often forget: Talent is not concentrated in Dhaka. Opportunity often is.
Every time, I interact with the young minds of PUST, I see the same curiosity, ambition and hunger that I have encountered among students across Bangladesh.
What can be different is access.
𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 to mentors.
𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 to industry.
𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 to networks.
𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 to practical knowledge.
And sometimes, simply access to someone who says: 'You can do this.' That is why initiatives like PUSTCEC matter.
A career seminar in Pabna may look like a small event on a calendar. A Freshers' Reception may look like another university program.
But behind those events are hundreds of young people making their first connections, asking their first professional questions, discovering entrepreneurship, and beginning to imagine a future beyond the boundaries of their classrooms.
And that is where the real impact begins. One conversation can change a student's perspective. One mentor can change the direction of a career. One idea can become a business.
And one empowered young person can eventually create opportunities for many others. This is how youth development should happen in Bangladesh, not only from the centre outward, but from every corner of the country, upward.
Tomorrow, I am going to join the Freshers Reception & Career and Entrepreneurship Seminar at Pabna University of Science and Technology as an invited speaker.
But, I am carrying a much bigger thought with me: we should not only prepare young people for jobs. We should prepare them to create jobs, build businesses, lead communities and shape the future of Bangladesh.
For me, being an Independent Advisor to PUSTCEC has never been about the title. It is about contributing; however modestly to a movement that makes knowledge, mentorship, confidence and opportunity accessible beyond Dhaka.
Because if we genuinely want to build an inclusive Bangladesh, we cannot keep asking: 'Where is the talent?'
We should start asking: 'How far are we willing to go to reach it?'
Proud to be part of this journey.
Proud of the young people building it.
And even more excited about the Bangladesh they will build next.
