District level elections across Bangladesh yesterday and lots of candidates for people to choose from. Even though most are party hacks, under the electioral laws here they have to stand as independents, each with their own symbol.
The Election Commission helpfully provides them with a list to choose from, and towns and villages everywhere are decorated [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Bangladesh’
January 23, 2009
Symbols
July 4, 2008
Abdul Bari had run out of luck
My research for a recent article on the campaign to try the perpetrators of atrocities committed during Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971, took me to the second-hand book section of New Market – dozens of tiny stalls, each with a random collection of discarded and damp books and magazines, piled up to their metal sheet [...]
