Bangladesh - Himal Southasian (Page 20)

The nearly secret Maobadi War

Red radicals of Bangladesh have been at it for five decades, but more than a law and order issue their presence points to a systemic failure of the state.

By Afsan Chowdhury

/ 25 Jul 2005

E par Bangla, 0 par Bangla, no thank you

If media is to help Bangladesh and India understand each other, then media on either side should first begin to understand Bangladesh and India.

By Dipankar Sinha

/ 19 Jul 2005

Women and work: employment and empowerment

Monica Ali, Brick Lane, Doubleday, London, 2003. Naila Kabeer, The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women Workers and Labour Market Decisions,

By Firdous Azim

/ 10 Jul 2005

A Nepal-Bangladesh win-win

Just a decade ago, the roof racks of passenger buses arriving in any one of Nepal's cities and towns would be piled high with firewood. All through the

By Rajendra Dahal

/ 1 Jul 2005

Energy in the East

Not satisfied with its explorations westwards, India is also looking to the east in its quest for energy security. In January 2005, plans for a pipeline carrying natural gas from

By Prashant Jha

/ 1 Jul 2005

Bahauddins’ war

Corporal Kazi Bahauddin, 24 Bengali soldier in Pakistan Army November, 1971 The Western Front "Is it true that you're in love with the old girl's

By Ishrat Firdousi

/ 1 Aug 2003

Political maps and cultural territories

The earliest boundary between India and Bangladesh separated peoples of the hills and plains.

By David Ludden

/ 1 Jul 2003

Beyond the doomsday scenario

Bangladeshi garment workers prepare for a post-MFA world.

By Dina M Siddiqi

/ 1 Jul 2003

In Search of Shonar Bangla

The Bangladesh constitution of 1972 directs the first 10 lines of Amar Shonar Bangla to be sung as the national anthem.

By Dina M Siddiqi

/ 1 May 2003

Singing the nation

Singing the concept of an akhand Bharat or of a Persianised sultanat or of a shonar Bangla when part of Bengal is- in India is unreal.

By Nasreen Rehman

/ 1 May 2003

Such long journeys of silence and forgiveness

Bangladesh is now being imagined outside, it has been externalized, and there is no longer the trickle-down of hope.

By Afsan Chowdhury

/ 1 Jan 2003

Development critique: Blight in donor’ed Bangladesh

Donor agencies regularly charge their host governments and bureaucracies of corruption, but what about the lack of accountability of the agencies themselves? In Dhaka, the donor elite is beginning to be taken on.

By Salim Rashid

/ 1 Nov 2002