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WORLDCOOK'S TRAVELS - DHAKA (2) Bangladesh |
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Recipes from Bangladesh |
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| This picture from the Daily Star shows, that in Dhaka there are too many people and too little land. This is the border of Gulshan Lake, a few minutes form where we live. People are dumping soil and rubbish into the lake - not because they want to get illegally rid of the rubbish, but they want to create an extra space, where they can build a house or apartment. They come with cars and flat bed rickshaws. When caught by the police, they sometimes leave their means of transport behind, never to come and collect it again. | |
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Photo: Worldcook |
Photo: The Daily Star |
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And this is what the city looks
like during the months of heavy rainfall, June to August. When it rains,
the sewage cannot deal with the water and within an hour, it will be
ankle deep. Luckily, this year (2006) the rainfall was modest so we did
not see too many pictures like those. The newspapers even complain about
“drought”, Problem is, what shoes should you wear? Normal shoes get
spoiled, slippers get lost. And you don’t want to be caught barefoot in
this kind of water. Bangladesh was visited by Armenians long before it took its current name, around 2,000 BC; the Armenian traders traded in spices and precious stone. A few thousand years later, Armenians came back, this time with indigo and jute. Unfortunately, the jute market has collapsed and indigo is no longer traded, and that has made many Armenians leave the country. There is still a reminder, the Armenian church in Armanitola, Dhaka, which they built in 1781. Services are still held there and mainly foreigners pay visits; the yard is paved with numerous granite slabs of graves, and frequently overseen by RAB members. After all, the security of the dead also need to be watched. | |
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