Stories about Bangladesh from July, 2007
Bangladesh: The threat of floods and current politics
A flood on its way Like many places in the world it has been raining incessantly in many parts of Bangladesh for a number of days. The rain water had waterlogged many places. Back to Bangladesh posts some pictures of some parts of the waterlogged Dhaka. He wonders whether there...
Bangla blogs discuss evolution – Of life, blogs and women power
What is blogging all about? Is it about sharing one's daily life and/or thoughts with the rest of the world? Is it then an autobiography of sorts? Can a blog be deemed as literature? Suman Rehman, who labels himself as an ‘uploader’ rather than a true blue blogger, set the...
Podcast: Intro to the Nari Jibon Project
Just three weeks ago the Nari Jibon center in Dhaka, Bangladesh was announced as one of five recipients of the first round of Rising Voices outreach grants. This introductory podcast offers some background information to Bangladesh, the current status of Bangladeshi women, and how the Nari Jibon project aims to use citizen media to help empower the voices of young women from Dhaka.
Bangladesh: Media and Fretting
Mash on US media and what he terms as “a whole lot of fretting over Pakistan”
Bangladesh: Minus Two Formula in effect
The Bangladeshi Blogosphere went into a tizzy after the recent arrest of the ex Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed. She has been arrested on the charges of extorting about $440,000 from a businessman during her term in office from 1996 to 2001. Earlier Sheikh Hasina survived a government bar to...
Bangladesh: Child Marriage
Voices of South on the issue of child marriage in Bangladesh, and how a 13 year old's classmates protested when she was to be married to a 23 year old man.
Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina Arrested
The arrest of an ex-Prime Minister – Hasina Sheikh gets reactions from Mash, Unheard Voices and Dhaka.
Bangladesh: Going to Dhaka
A Sunshine Too Brief goes to Bangladesh and discovers two unexpected things – great facials and a lesson in humility.
Bangladesh: Sicko and Canada
a bengali in TO watches Michael Moore's Sicko, and is thankful that he's in Canada.
Bangla blog musings: Mosque, mausoleum, music and Marxism
The Taj Mahal has won a place of glory in the recently announced list of the seven wonders of the world, much to the delight of Bangla bloggers. Shaukat Husein details out the complete list of winners but rues the absence of the Pyramids amongst them. A debate has ensued...
Bangladesh: Political reforms
Reform is the buzzword in recent political debates in Bangladesh. The state of emergency imposed in the country refrains people from active politics. But talks are being held at the party levels to cleanse (from corruption) and reform the politics in Bangladesh and establishing democracy within the parties. Rumi of...
Bangladesh: Policy and the Poor
Unheard Voices writes favourably about the World Bank's document on improving living conditions for the Urban Poor.
South Asia: Doctors in the UK
With doctors in the NHS being connected to the terror plot in the UK, The Daily Rhino on the politics of healthcare and NHS.
Congratulations, Rising Voices Grantees
We are thrilled to announce the first five citizen media outreach projects to receive Rising Voices microgrants. In total we received 142 project proposals from over 40 different countries. What all of the project proposals have in common is a desire to enable their communities to tell their own stories, to write their own first draft of history, to document their traditions and culture before they are washed away by the tides of globalization.
Bangladesh: Victims of Chittagong Landslide
Inspirations and Creative Thoughts on raising funds for the victims of the Chittagong landslide.
Bangladesh: Ethics and Companies
Bangladesh Blogger on unethical practices of a company that helps expats send money from the UK to Bangladesh.
Newsmakers: Bangla blog world engages in celeb talk
A few weeks back, the celebrity heiress Paris Hilton went in and out of jail and the media lapped up her every move. We learnt about her diet, beauty regimen, ‘mysterious’ illness and even her remorse. Paris herself made the best of this opportunity and promised to pen a jail...
