Home for three weeks now and the bones are buried again, back in their usual spot under the floorboards. Travel in areas of absolute poverty and you soon confront questions that have no answers. Questions that get packed away upon landing, a standard part of the...
In 2007 I was caught in Bangladesh during Cyclone Sidr. After the storm passed I covered the wreckage and recovery. Here’s a web post from that time plus a radio documentary I produced. The photo features me shooting video of an aid worker in a very leaky boat....
… number 3 I have friends in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I lost my heart to the country and the delightful people who live there. Their joy, inventiveness and tenacity in the face of great poverty, regular disasters and the pending horrors of an environmental armageddon...
… what Rogers could learn in Bangladesh November 2007 Gopalganj region of Bangladesh – a remote part of an out-of-the-way country This place looked like it had been bombed and, in fact, it had. Cyclone Sidr had swept through the terribly poor region in a...
W orry and alarm about human trafficking is everywhere. As is usually the case with trends we jump on, it involves sex, compulsion and a whiff of xenophobia. If you know history you will see many similarities between today’s breathless trafficking concerns and...
