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Bangladesh: Take Back Bangladesh

Thursday, November 30th, 2006 @ 16:04 UTC

by Neha Viswanathan

Countries:: Bangladesh
Topics:: Politics

drishtipat on a concert called Take Back Bangladesh. “The idea behind Take Back Bangladesh is to reconnect the people, especially the younger generation, who are turned off by politics as usual and feel that their voices are never heard by the political parties. … The first step in this direction is a free concert today at 2:30.”

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