Tag Archives: bangladesh
Foucault and Yunus
A man reaches into a tin of condensed milk and scoops a gooey dose into a small glass cup of [...]
Rewind: Centre 21 – Wednesday Jan 13
In a small tin shed at Khorkhiri, Rajshahi, the women are wearing heavier shawls today as I watch them do [...]
Wandering in Gulshan – Fri 22 Jan
I need a walk and head for Gulshan, round the lake, past the local man suckling his cows, training an [...]
The End of Basic Training
I’m saying goodbyes, my work here is done. The 26 questions of the training course and my endless rounds [...]
Images of Bangladesh
For a few of the hundreds of images gathered over the last wee while, visit here.
Sign your name
Signatures are disappearing. We are now our passwords.
Yet most Grameen women when they join the bank cannot sign their names. [...]
Fast Forward – Alone in Dhaka – Fri 15 Jan
The muezzin, dogs and chickens wake me at my hotel and I try to catch yesterday before the tide of [...]
Are you liking the Bee Gees? Mon 11 Jan
A duck sits in the middle of a pond. A drake approaches the duck and slides a little clumsily into [...]
And what is Ijtema?