In Bangladesh, a Vibrant Contemporary Scene
International New York Times March 14, 2014 DHAKA, Bangladesh — Political turmoil and violent nationwide strikes regularly disrupted life in Bangladesh last year. But on a hot night in Dhaka, […]
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Far From the Rooftop of the World
Roads and Kingdoms March 10, 2014 Bylakuppe, India Indian pop music blasted within the autorickshaw and the flimsy metal buggy chugged to a raucous dance beat as we bumped along […]
A riverboat cruise into the mangrove forest of Bangladesh
Boston Globe February 15, 2014 KHULNA, Bangladesh — The riverboat nosed through the narrowing inlet as darkness descended. Inky masses of trees on the riverbank reached out over the water […]
The Low-Lying Country Where Drowning Is the No. 1 Killer of Kids
TheAtlantic.com December 30, 2013 DHAKA, Bangladesh — Water is everywhere in Bangladesh. The South Asian nation squats on one of the world’s largest deltas, and rivers run through this low-lying […]
India Increases Effort to Harness Biomass Energy
New York Times October 9, 2013 GHANAUR, India — THE hulking power plant set against the green countryside of Punjab state in northwest India does not look like a source of renewable […]
India lags behind neighboring Bangladesh in reducing child mortality
Global Post September 5, 2013 India represents a fifth of the world’s under-5 deaths and is considered unlikely to hit its UN Millennium Development Goal — while the story is very […]
A second chance for Tibetan youth in exile
Christian Science Monitor August 17, 2013 GURGAON AND DHARAMSALA, INDIA Karma Dhondup grew up in Mundgod, the large exile Tibetan settlement in south India, far from the rooftop of the world […]
Working on Tibet’s Future, From India
New York Times Weekly August 2, 2013 DHARAMSALA, India — In a spacious classroom in this northern Indian hill town, 20 young Tibetan men and women sit in front of […]
In Bangladesh, More Shelter From the Storms
New York Times, Fixes July 23, 2013 KHULNA, Bangladesh — In May 2009, Cyclone Aila swept over the southwestern coast of this country and lashed the small village where Rashida […]
‘Floating Schools’ Bring Classrooms to Stranded Students
International Herald Tribune July 1, 2013 NASIAR KANDI, Bangladesh — On a hot morning, about 20 fourth-graders sat in two rows of desks, their textbooks open to a Bengali poem […]
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