BJP for compulsory registration to weed out illegal immigrants Aug 11, 2008
New Delhi, Aug 10: BJP president Rajnath Singh on Sunday demanded compulsory registration of citizens to weed out illegal Bangladeshi immigrants from the country. "The UPA government should prepare and maintain a National Register of Citizens," Singh said at a protest rally here, demanding a check on illegal immigration in the North-Eastern states which, they alleged, was affecting the demograhic profile and culture of the region. (Zee News)
Work of revered Indian historical figures goes 'missing' from library Aug 6, 2008
Tagore composed the Indian and Bangladeshi national anthems ... He wrote poems and short stories and composed both the Indian and Bangladeshi national anthems. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Movie review: 'Brick Lane' familiar plot, different setting Jul 4, 2008
The novel that inspired it was a popular and controversial saga about the Bangladeshi community in London. The movie takes a vivid look at that reality and the impact of 9/11 on its Muslim residents. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Bangladesh boleh Jun 22, 2008
You say Bangladeshi, I (am ashamed to) say worker ... All it took to set the truth of that ringing was a morning with the four Bangladeshi artists, taking a closer look into their worlds through their words and works ... Tokai is a small street urchin, witty, cunning, wise and observant of Bangladeshi society, politics, philosophies and hypocrisies. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Scholarship draws international students to Indonesian art, culture Jun 13, 2008
The scholarship holders include Gambian, French, German, British, Japanese, Hungarian, Mexican, Australian and Bangladeshi students, among others. The Indonesian government has ambitiously planned that in the next two years more than 700 students would receive invitations to study Indonesian arts and culture on the Darmasiswa scholarship. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
India bowls Bangladesh out on 222 in tri-series match Jun 12, 2008
Hassan's patient innings, the highest ever by a Bangladeshi against India, contained only five boundaries. It ended after he hurt his hamstring and was out to R.P. Singh. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
'I want to be come back to India' Jun 10, 2008
com-Indiablooms News from Europe - where she went for treatment in March after months of confinement in a safe house in New Delhi - the exiled Bangladeshi writer said India is the only safe haven for persecuted secularists like her. I hope India will continue giving shelter and security to persecuted writers, said Nasreen, 45. (Sify.com, India)
UN expert in Bangladesh custody May 22, 2008
She is among scores of high-profile figures in Bangladeshi public life who have been detained in a crackdown on alleged corruption in recent months. Immunities. (Yahoo News -- Bangladesh)
Spice of lifeWhy do protesters fear the great British curry is under threat? Apr 21, 2008
"Curry isn't Indian or Bangladeshi food anymore," he says. "It's British food now. "It's part of Britain's culture, and we need everyone's support to preserve it. (BBC News -- UK)
With friends like these . . . Apr 19, 2008
It's also a group that - defined in the old-fashioned way as Pakistanis and Bangladeshis - remains at the bottom of the socioeconomic heap ... he blames the anti-racists and sexual reformers of the 60s for dissolving "the bonds of mutual support", dips more than a toe into the Daily Mail's critique of the welfare state (breaking up families, privileging immigrants), and blames the Respect party for Pakistani and Bangladeshi unemployment. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Maitree express back after 43-year delay Apr 15, 2008
The Indian train was also held up near the border by protesters sitting on the tracks to demand rehabilitation of Bangladeshi refugees in India. Have your say. (Times Online)
* India and Bangladesh resume train service Apr 15, 2008
The Moitree [Friendship] Express train between Indias Calcutta and the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka was flagged off by Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee in a colorful ceremony coinciding with the Bengali New Year ... But the train was briefly stopped in the Nadia district bordering Bangladesh when about 50 protesters demanding help for Bangladeshi refugees squatted on the train tracks ... The Indian service will have a capacity for 368 passengers while the Bangladeshi will accommodate... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Going for a throng Apr 14, 2008
In the early morning smog of central Dhaka I note the mash of sweaty Bangladeshis walking along the streets with osmotic efficiency. Kids set up vegetable stalls and shoe polishing stands next to the traffic lights, business men sip on sweet Bangladeshi tea and families browse stalls selling fashionable Muslim head coverings ... I walk along the halls of the museum shadowed by a curious gathering of Bangladeshi women draped in saris watching for my reactions as I read of the unfolding struggle... (Sydney Morning Herald)
Cross-cultural masterclass Apr 12, 2008
(Greer called him a "megalomaniac, an Englishman with dark skin", sparking a feud that was reignited in 2006 after Greer supported Bangladeshi activists attempting to block the filming of Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane. . (The Australian)
Bangladesh frees cartoonist detained on charges of insulting Prophet Muhammad Mar 21, 2008
Bangladeshi authorities on Thursday released a cartoonist from prison where he had been awaiting trial on charges of insulting Islam, officials said. Prison officials released Mohammed Arifur Rahman on an order from the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, said Maj. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
* [BOOK REVIEW] 'Paris by Night' and the Vietnamese-American experience Mar 16, 2008
But there's a paradox involved, as Sunaina Maira points out in a vigorous essay on Indo-chic, looking at Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Tibetan immigrants in the New England town of Northampton. Things Asian can become fashionable exactly because they are different. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Shock tacticsAn alternative way to help Bangladesh's sanitation problem Mar 16, 2008
"In one year, 140 people died in this village from diarrhoea; we saw it with our own eyes," a Bangladeshi man tells the Television Trust for the Environment's (TVE) Earth Report programme. "They all died within 15 to 20 days, and people who used to dig their graves had their lunch beside the graves because they did not have time to go home.". (BBC News -- Science)
Home is where the art is Mar 16, 2008
They were originally drawn to the East End because it 'had lots of communities, from Bangladeshi to Jewish, the local rag trade, and mysterious abandoned buildings. When they bought their house in Whitechapel in 1982, it was derelict yet filled with intriguing old objects including an ornate, cast-iron range (which now sits in a fireplace). (Guardian Unlimited)
What to eat on your Holi days Mar 5, 2008
But unlike some top Asian chefs, Singh doesn't sneer at the predominantly Bangladeshi pioneers who established curry-house culture in the UK. "They made it up as they went along, reinventing dishes for the British palate," he says. "It wasn't representative of what was going on at home, but it was close enough to keep the links between Britain and India alive. "Then, in the 80s, Udit Sarkhel came over [from the Taj Hotel, Mumbai, to the Bombay Brasserie in London] saying, 'I'll show you what... (Guardian Unlimited)
Black schools big error: Matlow Feb 28, 2008
I dont see Bangladeshi parents banging on the door for a Bangladeshi school, because theyre doing reasonably well, she said. Were doing well in most other areas, but in this area were just failing, and we have to try something different. (Toronto Town Crier Newspapers)
Forced Marriages and Unforeseen Consequences Feb 25, 2008
In that town of Bradford, in a school where 90 percent of the students are Pakistani and Bangladeshi children, cases of autism and an array of learning and physical disabilities, are the rule not the exception. When the authorities try to intervene on behalf of the children, they generally discover the mothers speak no English. (Human Events Online)
45 comments Feb 20, 2008
And the next month, a captured Egyptian jihadist named Sharif al-Masri about Al-Qaeda s plans to smuggle nuclear materials to Mexico, where operatives would carry material into the U.S. A Bangladeshi Muslim, Fakhrul Islam, while trying to cross into Texas from Mexico. With him were members of the Central American Mara Salvatruchas gang, which some officials allege has ties to Al-Qaeda. (Human Events Online)
Be More Optimistic Feb 17, 2008
This bank lends money to poverty stricken Bangladeshi farmers, 97 percent of whom are women. Money borrowed goes towards starting businesses or buying tools. (Suite101.com)
Gilbert and George's art might make you squirm Feb 17, 2008
Londoners undoubtedly recognize street names from the artists' borough in the former work as belonging to the Bangladeshi quarter. The latter work embeds portraits of the duo, each given an unearthly symmetry by computer, in a forest of handwritten tabloid seller's placards. (San Francisco Chronicle)
One Nation Under Multiple Gods Feb 12, 2008
Though British law recognizes sharia weddings, just as it recognizes Jewish or Catholic weddings, this one, it has been argued, might be considered so "offensive to the conscience of the English court" that it cannot be recognizedunless, of course, the fact that the marriage is legal under Bangladeshi sharia law is the most important consideration. Meanwhile, police in Wales are dealing with an epidemic of ; remain a perennial problem; and British law has already been altered to accommodate... (Slate)
Tahmima Anam took novel approach to connect with homeland Jan 29, 2008
But Bangladeshi voices have been notably absent ... She has Bangladeshi citizenship, her parents live in Dhaka (her mother is a human rights activist, her father founder and editor of the largest English-language daily newspaper), and she spends several weeks there every year ... Wherever we lived, they would say, "This is temporary, don't get settled here. We are Bangladeshi." I had to take Bengali singing, music, and dancing lessons. (Boston Globe)
Lessons in the art of kindness Jan 19, 2008
Why would someone sleep on a banana peel, my Bangladeshi colleagues asked ... Apparently, that well-known chestnut had not crossed cultural boundaries and found its way into Bangladeshi humour ... There is no privacy for anyone and the Bangladeshi penchant for bluntness compounds this contrast with Western culture. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Cholera-hit Indians 'face hunger' Jan 17, 2008
Grim life for Bangladeshi prostitutes. Clinton in flight attendant spoof. (Yahoo News -- India)
Eco-ruin 'felled early society' Jan 17, 2008
" Some isolated patches of pine forest still remain today The degradation of soils and vegetation could have caused the collapse of agriculture and pastoralism, the foundation of the Argaric economy. This would have led to massive depopulation of the area. The findings were outlined at the recent Climate and Humans conference in Murcia, Spain, and appear in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews. Bookmark with: RELATED INTERNET LINKS The BBC is not responsible for the content of external... (Yahoo News -- Anthropology and Archaeology)
Post-quake Peru runs out of tents Jan 17, 2008
Grim life for Bangladeshi prostitutes ... Grim life for Bangladeshi prostitutes. (Yahoo News -- Peru)
Nigeria oil city in slum clean-up Jan 17, 2008
Grim life for Bangladeshi prostitutes. BA flight lands short of runway. (Yahoo News -- Nigeria)
Perfect mismatch Jan 11, 2008
Khan, born in London in 1974 to a family of Bangladeshi origin, began his professional career aged 14 in Peter Brook's production of the Mahabharata. Both have developed and extended their careers by making clever choices. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'A Golden Age' tells of a mother's love tangled by war Jan 8, 2008
A Bangladeshi widow will do anything for her rebel children. By. (Christian Science Monitor)
Malaysia bans recruitment of Indian workers after unrest Jan 8, 2008
Malaysia barred employers from recruiting Bangladeshi workers in October following problems sparked by labor agents who leave the migrants stranded on arrival. There are some 200,000 Bangladeshi workers now in Malaysia. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Black Caps hit lead on day one Jan 5, 2008
Ashraful was trapped lbw off the first delivery of Martin's next over when he failed to offer a shot with the total on 47, prompting fears of a major Bangladeshi collapse. Shahriar Nafees survived the hat-trick and contributed a patient 16 off 50 balls but threw his wicket away when he bottom-edged an attempted sweep off Daniel Vettori. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Bhutto's Political Prominence Offended Islamic Radicals Jan 2, 2008
Since Bhutto was first elected prime minister in 1988, other Muslim women have been elected to power, including Bangladeshi prime ministers Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina in 1991 and 1996 respectively, Turkish prime minister Tansu Ciller in 1993, and President Megawati Sukarnoputri in Indonesia in 2001. Unelected female leaders ruled in Egypt, Tartarstan and India in earlier centuries. (CNSnews.com)
U.S. Jews, Muslims seek paths to harmony Dec 28, 2007
He also cited a recent incident in a New York subway "where four young Jews were being verbally and physically assaulted on a train for wishing the passengers a happy Hanukkah, and the only individual to come to their rescue was a young Muslim man," Hassan Askari, of Bangladeshi heritage, who was beaten. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Race)
Rhyme with reasonBritish hip-hop artists take Islam from the studio to the school Dec 28, 2007
About one-third of the children in the school are Muslims from a range of backgrounds - mainly Somali, Bangladeshi and Pakistani. All the children have been learning about Islam in advance of the workshop. (BBC News -- UK)
Leading personalities who died in 2007 Dec 25, 2007
Tota Miah, the Bangladeshi "snake king", who started the country's first commercial snake farm, of snake bite aged 38. (Nov 4). (India Times)
U.S. Jews and Muslims seek paths to harmony Dec 24, 2007
He also cited a recent incident in a New York subway "where four young Jews were being verbally and physically assaulted on a train for wishing the passengers a happy Hanukkah, and the only individual to come to their rescue was a young Muslim man," Hassan Askari, of Bangladeshi heritage, who was beaten. "That is a very, very powerful example" of what can happen. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Muslim anger in Bengal Dec 24, 2007
In hindsight it is clear that the street violence over the Bangladeshi author which forced a nervous chief minister to deploy the army was a manifestation of bottled-up disillusionment and grievances of Muslims - comprising a significant 25 per cent of the states population - against a government they have faithfully voted to power in election after election. Now, with Nasreen out of the way, it should be intros-pection time for the party. (India Times, India)
Child welfare Dec 8, 2007
I shudder to think of the reception I would have had from Bangladeshi neighbours had I asked why they didn't come out to watch their offspring: "They watch out for each other," "But it's normal!". The area I now live in has average social indicators (income, home ownership levels, etc). (Guardian Unlimited -- Society)
Page from Napoleon's love story sold for $35400 Cdn Dec 3, 2007
The Indian government has pledged to continue to host and protect Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen, who is in hiding in India after violent protests against her. Cookbook author and television chef James Barber, who appeared on CBC-TV for 10 years as The Urban Peasant and lived his final years on Vancouver Island, has died. (CBC Saskatchewan)
S Dasgupta: The India we want Dec 2, 2007
The controversy over Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has forced Indians to confront a larger question: what sort of an India do we want to live in ... Armenians escaping ethnic cleansing, Chakmas dodging Bangladeshi settlers, Tibetans at odds with Chinese occupation and Afghan opponents of the Taliban have at various times made India their home. (India Times, India)
Human rights and Taslima Nasreen Dec 1, 2007
Tabish Khair gives his take on the case of Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen ... That's the question that lies behind the latest controversy around Bangladeshi writer, Taslima Nasreen, who now lives in India ... Ms Nasreen is no stranger to controversy, having provoked the ire of, among others, Islamic fundamentalists and Bangladeshi nationalists in the past. (New Statesman)
Indian-Indians join curry club Nov 29, 2007
We keep going around explaining to everyone we can find that no, that restaurant or cuisine is not Indian at all, its Nepalese, its Bangladeshi, its Pakistani ... British Asians, for years, didnt have any Indian identity other than at home; its been mixed up with Sinhalese, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis. (India Times)
The best reads Nov 25, 2007
A Golden Age (John Murray), Tahmima Anam's graceful novel about a family affected by the Bangladeshi war of independence. Adam Mars-Jones. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The fatal shore Nov 24, 2007
Within hours of the news of cyclone Sidr hitting blogs, broadsheets and Blackberries the world over, expatriate Bangladeshis began appealing for aid ... Soon after winning the Nobel Peace prize last year, Mohammad Yunus published an article called A Vision for Bangladesh, in which he pointed out a startling fact: expatriate Bangladeshis send more money home per capita than their Chinese and Indian counterparts ... Last year, over $5bn went directly into the Bangladeshi economy, sent from... (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Exiled Bangladesh author said hiding in New Delhi Nov 24, 2007
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen remained in hiding in India on Saturday fearing reprisals from hardline Muslims who see her work as blasphemous, officials said. The author was driven to the Indian capital New Delhi late on Friday under police escort and housed under tight security at an official residence, Indian media said, but authorities declined to confirm her location. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Muslim democracy: An oxymoron? Nov 22, 2007
The state's total failure to check terrorist threats to democracy is ascribed by many to the fact that Bangladeshi rulers themselves patronize Islamic fundamentalism. Politicization of the bureaucracy and judiciary and the absence of internal democracy within parties are other obstacles to democratic practice. (Asia Times Online)
Focus on foreign workers Nov 22, 2007
They are the Indonesian Embassy, Bangladeshi Embassy, Nepalese Embassy and Philippines Embassy. Malaysia is an example of a dynamic country in terms of economical and technological aspects. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Book Review: 'Bitter Sweets' Nov 20, 2007
Other talking-point questions: "What drew you to this story?" "Are your characters representative of the Pakistani and Bangladeshi immigrant communities?" "How has the Asian community reacted to 'Bitter Sweets?'". This addendum is annoying. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Jackie Ashley Nov 19, 2007
The same was true of about a fifth of Indian and Bangladeshi women. White middle-class women can afford the tennis clubs, private gyms and swimming pools. (Guardian Unlimited)
Bangladesh by boatResilience in the face of climate change and rising food prices Nov 13, 2007
Bangladeshis are unsure about water safety ... It's difficult to do anything other than admire Bangladeshis ... Bangladeshis may not have much money, but their cheerful outlook on life - as reflected by Shankar and his staff - is everywhere to be seen. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Post a comment Nov 13, 2007
Well, when the country falls apart and one is being raped by a terrorist, Indian or Bangladeshi, who are stuck on avenging from the current population, the sins of thirty years back, they can slander, shame, and make expletive or pornographic remarks to their hearts content. Oh. (International Herald Tribune)
'Defamation of Religion' Raised at UN Racism Discussion Nov 9, 2007
Other participants who brought up the defamation of religion issue included the Bangladeshi envoy, who warned of "a dangerous slide towards a clash of civilization and religion.". Libya's representative, in an apparent reference to the Mohammed cartoons, said freedom of speech should not threaten or touch upon religious figures and related beliefs. (CNSnews.com)
Children of 15 groomed to carry out terrorist acts, MI5 head says Nov 8, 2007
1 children per woman of childbearing age (figure for Pakistani and Bangladeshi women) verses 1. 3 for ethnically British women. (Yahoo News -- Terrorism & 9/11)
Monica Ali: The outrage economy Oct 29, 2007
There were threats of demonstrations, book burnings and even violence among some members of the Bangladeshi community ... But my novel - about a young Bangladeshi woman who exchanges her village home for a flat in the East End of London - has had a far from easy ride in its journey from page to screen ... People sometimes ask me if I have been saddened by the reaction to the novel of people with a Bangladeshi heritage. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Now 'Brick Lane' hits the big screen... despite the protests Oct 25, 2007
Indian 'art house' actress Tannishtha Chatterjee stars as Nazneen, who leaves her home in a Bangladeshi village at 17 for an arranged marriage with an older man and life in an East End council flat. She struggles to adapt to life as a wife and mother, while yearning for her sister and childhood home, until she meets an attractive young hot-headed man, Karim (Christopher Simpson) who delivers the fabric for the piecework which helps the women on the estate make ends meet. (East London Advertiser)
Ishak: Foreign workers unhappy with employers must go home Oct 16, 2007
Ishak said it has now become a norm for Bangladeshi workers to protest and demand for a change of employer. Since the mass protest by more than 700 Bangladeshis last week complaining of bad employers, there have been various other cases nationwide, he added ... On the Oct 9 incident where more than 700 Bangladeshi workers in 27 buses came to Kuala Lumpur from Batu Pahat, Ishak said they had asked for a change of employers and refused to eat unless their demands were met. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Foriegn workers not allowed to change employers Oct 15, 2007
"If changing employers is allowed, it will open the floodgates and there would be no end to it," he said Monday, adding that it had now become a norm for Bangladeshi workers to protest and demand for a change of employers. He said since the mass protest of 799 Bangladeshis last week complaining of bad employers, there have been various other cases nationwide ... Ishak said 799 Bangladeshi workers came to Kuala Lumpur from Muar in Johor, Ishak in 25 buses on Oct 9 and had asked for a change of... (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
The lies from within Oct 6, 2007
" he says. Known as Frank to his friends, the French-born former ASIO officer has returned to Australia after a decade at the UN where he served as deputy director of the investigations division of the Office of Internal Oversight Services. During that time, Montil crisscrossed the globe investigating procurement fraud in Syria, the trafficking of women in Sarajevo, the sexual abuse of refugees in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, money laundering in Antigua, IT fraud in Melbourne and the hunt... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
* Iraq's Kurdish region trying to restore economy Oct 1, 2007
"People don't blink," said Covert, who employs Serb foremen and Bangladeshi laborers because they are more skilled than Kurdish workers. "People have money here and they have nothing nice to spend it on.". (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Hoodbhoy: Between Imperialism and Islamism Sep 28, 2007
Reflecting broader changes within Bangladeshi society, mainstream politics has also transformed. In 1971, few would have thought that the Jamaat-i-Islami, which had openly sided with the West Pakistani army, could ever re-establish itself in Bangladeshi politics. (Zmag.org)
The dark side of Hyderabad's success Sep 7, 2007
When controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin - Muslim clerics have issued several fatwas against her for her works - visited Hyderabad recently, MIM legislators and activists threw books and chairs at her at a media conference she was addressing. MIM leaders defended the attack subsequently and a legislator went on to say that she "deserved more". (Asia Times Online)
