Archive for November, 2007
Stench of death hangs over Bangladesh village
SWARANKHOLA, Bangladesh : The stench of death from bloated corpses wafts through the air at Swarankhola, a small fishing village in southern Bangladesh that bore the brunt of a deadly cyclone last week. Three days after the Cyclone Sidr swept through the Bay of Bengal with winds of 250 kms
Award for young women journalists
The Jayaraman family and the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) jointly announce the Anupama Jayaraman Memorial Award for young women journalists for the year 2008. The Award had been set up in the memory of Anupama Jayaraman, a young and promising Bangalore-based journalist who passed away in January 2006. Anupama was not only […]
Rickshaw: Environment Comrade Vehicle’s Departure
“I am pulling rickshaw for seven years. My house is in Rampur district. My Father-Mother, Sister-Brother lives in the village. I send them two thousand taka every month. I pass my life in Dhaka with rest money” – Md. Deloar Hossain said this with hesitation. This twenty seven years old rickshaw puller has not married […]
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