‘South Asia’ Archives
The beggars and disable people are also human being
Dhaka, Bangladesh: When we give anything to anybody without any interest or without the hope of repayment, we call it help and the person who is taking this help calls it begging. In the earlier period, begging was welcome especially in the Hindu religion. We have seen in the Ramayana, Mahabharata etc that the pious are begging and the [...]
Cyclone and drinking water problems in coastal area of Bangladesh
Md. Shahidul Islam There is a proverb that ‘’water water everywhere but not a drop of drinking water.’’ This proverb was 100% proved in last cyclone SIDR and Aila. It was a serious problem in the affected areas. Due to cyclone, water contaminate in different ways. All latrines became open and human manure mixed with the flood water. [...]
Bangladeshi poor 'beyond the razor's edge': UN food agency
Millions of impoverished Bangladeshis are barely sustaining a hand-to-mouth existence that would be wrenched from their grasp by any fresh "economic shock," according to the UN food aid agency. World Food Programme (WFP) country head John Aylieff said two million children aged under five in Bangladesh are suffering from acute malnutrition, which [...]
Ship recycling leaves tide of death on Asia's beaches
In the searing heat of a July morning, 13-year-old Sultan Nasiruddin Molla set off for his first day of work on the seemingly endless stretch of muddy coastline in Chittagong, Bangladesh, where young men armed with wrenches and blow torches swarm like ants over rusting skeletons of beached ships. Sultan, excited at the prospect of joining the [...]
Climate change is a battle for existence in the Maldives
Among the many grim predictions of climate change experts, the future fate of The Maldives stands out as a genuine doomsday scenario with the island chain nation facing nothing short of extinction. A one-metre (3.3-foot) rise in sea level would almost totally submerge the country's 1,192 coral islands scattered off the southern tip of India. [...]
