Bangladesh - Himal Southasian (Page 23)

Boi-mela

United by language, West Bengal and Bangladesh meet at the Calcutta Book Fair. A book fair that can make people buy tickets in the black market to avoid the wait

By Ranjita Biswas

/ 1 Mar 1999

TRY THEM ALL

It is no secret that what has kept Sheikh Hasina going all these years was an uncompromising desire for revenge. All members of her immediate family, except her sister, Rehana,

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 1998

Poorest Poor

It took the worst floods of the century to bring Bangladesh back into the spotlight of the international media. The sight of so much water just couldn´t be ignored,

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 1998

Taslimanasreen returned to Bangladesh about the same time the more celebrated Salman Rushdie received a semi-reprieve from the fatwa issued against him by the long-gone Ayatollah Khomeini. These kinds of

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 1998

South Asia’s sex trade myths

Nepal Nepal was the original maker of the myth of trafficking in the regional and international community. Gita and her drugged Frooti established the precedent in South Asia for heart-

By John Frederick

/ 1 Oct 1998

The gas rush

Bangladesh these days is getting to know what noveau celebrityhood is all about. Sitting on a potential USD 25 billion treasury chest of gas deposits, gone are the days when

By The Editors

/ 1 Sep 1998

The willing fields of Bangladesh

If he gets over his disenchantment with the nuclear daredevils of South Asia, Bill Clinton is slated to swing by Bangladesh, too, this October. Expect photo opportunities with cute street

By Quddus Mia

/ 1 Sep 1998

“I should never have left Patna.”

Excerpts from an interview of Akhtar Hameed Khan taken by Dhaka features service NewsNetwork. The interviewers write: "Begum Akhtar Hameed Khan came and served us tea and snacks herself.

By The Editors

/ 1 Aug 1998

Friendship at arms-length

Bangladesh really does not matter, but China is willing to remain a good friend. The defining moment in Sino-Bangla relations probably came during the killings of 1971, when Beijing chose

By Afsan Chowdhury

/ 1 Jun 1998

Round-up of regional news

Protecting journalists by committee Oppressive governments and terrorist organisations have a propensity to confuse the truth with bad news and to further confuse the news with the messenger. They labour

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1998

Great speech, Your Excellency

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country," said Sir Henry Wotton back in 1604, and some things never seem to

By Quddus Mia

/ 1 May 1998

Waiting for the Islamic moderniser

Secularism is not an overwhelming reality in Bangladesh. Scholarly dissection of Islam in Bangladesh has forever posed the interaction of an outside religion with a native culture. The introduction of

By Chanchal Sarkar

/ 1 Feb 1998