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This the last in my series of posts about our trip to Bangladesh. My visit to Jheelpur slum gave me much to think about, a new perspective on how some people live. After a couple of days in Dhaka I became very aware of a desperately poor underclass. There is no welfare state so beggars tap at [...] I recently posted about categories of mums including ”competitive” mums. Naively I wondered why mums were getting so stressed about the achievements of their young children. Then I read a letter in Nursery World describing how a private prep school sends a 24 page document to parents of children joining its reception class stating that before [...] For those interested in seeing more of Bangladesh, Simon Reeve travelled through there on his journey around the Tropic of Cancer. The episode was shown tonight on BBC 2 but is available on iplayer. For me, having not left Dhaka when I visited, it was great to see the vast rivers and people fishing them using [...] In 2005, when I was living in Bishkek and experienced the Tulip Revolution, Kurmanbek Bakiyev was the hero of the people. He was their great hope, the man who was going to lead them out of the oppression of the Akayev years. Sadly, five years on, his people have ousted him, accusing him of corruption and [...] In March 2005 I stood in Ala Too Square in Bishkek and watched angry young men climb over the fence and storm the presidential White House, causing regime change in Kyrgyzstan. My husband M was furious – he was back in our flat with baby T and had seen me on CNN. “You’re a mother now” he [...] This week I read a great post from blogger Plan B in response to an article by Lucy Cavendish in The Observer. LC was writing about the “battle” between mums who parent in different ways and Plan B countered that she’d never experienced anything like this in the blogging community. As part of this discussion, blogger Deer [...] You can’t understand Bangladesh without appreciating its rivers, for Bangladesh is the delta where the vast Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers meet the sea. The country is therefore a network of vast rivers and tributaries with a large proportion of it underwater, more during the monsoon floods. As over 165 million people live in Bangladesh (a population density [...] |
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