If Bangladesh is known for anything other than the natural calamities that regularly strike this impoverished deltaic country, it is for its microcredit programmes. Initiated some 25 years ago, micro-credit
To a Bangladeshi associated with the history of his country´s birth, the documents presented in the pages that follow evoke a strange feeling. They are like reading about the
The surrender of a professional murderer is bad news for several Bangladeshi police officers and politicians.
He has possibly killed more people than any other pro fessional criminal in Bangladesh.
Mid-shot of a row of men sitting and looking bored in the middle of nowhere in Bangladesh. Camera pans the faces.
It was raining hard as they trudged through the
Himal calls from Kathmandu. They want a piece on English writing in Bangladesh. Deadline is not so long away. Is it possible? I suppose so. Dhaka e-mails are all knocked
An unprecedented crisis of drinking water contaminated by natural arsenic affects nearly 100 million people in West Bengal and Bangladesh. Experts dealing with the toxicity of arsenic now have a
An attempt on the life of a poet lays bare sinister links and madrassah skeletons.
While most people were preparing to celebrate Eid in Dhaka on 18 January, members of
