Bangladesh - Himal Southasian (Page 23)

One more flat tyre

Atal Behari Vajpayee's South Asian 'road transport' diplomacy, begun with his much-hailed trip to Lahore, has been deflated, as it were, by the bangs of big

By Afsan Chowdhury

/ 1 Jul 1999

Hooked on arsenic

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

By S.N.M. Abdi

/ 1 Jul 1999

Move over BTV

Bangladeshis may just get to see real television. Privately run. When Ekushey Television (ETV) begins transmission on 16 December 1999, it will be the first private sector terrestrial TV station

By Afsan Chowdhury

/ 1 Jun 1999

MILITANT SEASON

Less than three weeks after Kazi Arif, deputy chief of the leftist Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) party, was gunned down along with five others while addressing a peace rally in

By Afsan Chowdhury

/ 1 Apr 1999

Laden with terror

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

By Afsan Chowdhury

/ 1 Mar 1999

DYING IN DHAKA

The capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, is a killer city and shows no sign of letting up on its homicidal spree. Every day, newspapers report of one death or another as

By Afsan Chowdhury

/ 1 Mar 1999

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