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Upwardly Mobile Ang Rita

Everest multi-summiteer Ang Rita Sherpa would have been an international celebrity if he spoke English, had fair skin, and concentrated on selling himself rather than grazing his yaks.

| Sep 01, 1996

A Bangladeshi looks for his country

Bengalee? Yes. Muslim? Yes, mostly. Bangladeshi? Yes. South Asian? Even that too. Confused? No question about that. In its twenty-fifth year, Bangladesh is still grasping after a personality.

| Sep 01, 1996

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