Wherever the forest department is, there is no forest.
Monthly Archive for March, 2007
In Bangladesh, amid the mindless ado about Professor Yunus and his new adventures and the interim government’s angelic mission aimed at rooting out corruption, the least reported aspect of the story is of the martial law that in now calling the shots from the Dhaka cantonment. As usual you are not going to read anything substantial on this in Dhaka newspapers, people are too busy hyping up Professor Y and the so-called “cleansing” drive ongoing.
Arnold Zeitlin — Visiting Professor, Department of Journalism, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies — recently circulated an email detailing his recent visit to Dhaka, that summarizes and analyzes a lot for many of the uninitiated in the Bangladesh story. Republished in a slightly edited form, with permission from the author.
