Everyone wants to eat healthy. However, this a very difficult thought in today’s Bangladesh. A majority of the foods available on the markets are tainted. From vegetables to spices. fishes to dried fishes, oranges to pineapples and from beef to chicken, all are supposed to be adulterated in one way or the other. And a […]
With the ongoing blockade called by Begum Khaleda Zia, leader of opposition party BNP, running into mid-March it seems that the country doesn’t seem to find a respite from the crippling effect of hartals and oborodhs (a convenient word meaning blockade without any specification of how, when and where). Khaleda Zia called for indefinite nationwide […]
Professional photography has taken a fantastic shape on the Kuakata beach. More than 51 local young men, who used to be fishermen,van pullers, day laborers or unemployed in the recent past have formed a society to work on the beach taking pictures of hundreds of tourists and delivering those to their hotel rooms. Not long […]
The 200-year-old wooden sail ship, salvaged from under the beach in Kuakata at a cost of over one crore taka now lies in tatters due to a lack of conservation efforts. In 2013, engineers of the Bangladesh Army salvaged the ancient ship, believed to be a schooner. They painstakingly laid railway tracks over a distance […]
Traveling in Bangladesh is hazardous. Every day there are reports of buses plunging into ditches, lorries ramming into crowded bazars and unruly students and transport workers creating traffic jam on the roads. As the population grows, our roads are set to get even worse. However despite all the hazards Bangladesh offers one of the most […]
The distance between the third Buriganga bridge and the small town of Kalatia, by the river Dhaleshwari in the outskirts of the capital is hardly 12 kilometers. On this short stretch, 33 speed breakers, some up to two feet high, have been built by villagers trying to tame reckless driving. To add to this, more […]
Time has been stuck for hundreds of years in the village of Jally, 170 kilometers northwest of the capital. For centuries nothing has moved here to impose any threat to the nature. The village is connected to the outer world by a narrow earthen road through some of the most picturesque landscapes. Lush green paddy […]
Tons of natural conch shells are now being extracted every day from the water bodies (haor and bils) of Bagerhat and Faridpur to sell as fish feeds across the districts. The indiscriminate extraction of these shells could lead to an ecological imbalance in these water bodies, which have been extremely rich in flora and fauna […]
