A fellow member of Dhaka’s tiny (and dwindling) band of foreign reporters, Misha Hussain, has written this interesting blog for the Pakistani newspaper/website Dawn. It tackles the highly sensitive issue of war crimes committed during Bangladesh’s independence war by Pakistani forces/pro-Pakistan militia. This week of course has seen the 38th anniversary of Bangladesh’s birth, and [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘history’
August 2, 2008
A city of ruins
Dhaka was described, in 1824, by a visiting Anglican bishop, as a city of “magnificent ruins.”
What he saw were the ruins of what had been, during the first half of the 18th century, a wealthy, cosmopolitan and attractive city. It was a centre (as it is again today) of the international garment trade, and exported fine cloth [...]
