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...book, Ka (Speak Up), was soon banned in both Bangladesh and the Indian province of West Bengali, and its unflinching treatment of taboo issues—especially women’s sexuality—angered many prominent Bangladeshi writers, government officials and Muslim fundamentalists...
...literary career, Nasrin has been as prolific as she has been controversial. Nasrin began as a poet, but first attracted serious negative attention with the publication of Lajja (Shame), a book she says is about “the Hindu persecution in Bangladesh by the Muslim fundamentalists...
...government only focused on economic development," says Song Wenzhi, a professor at the Peking University Public Health Institute in Beijing. "It neglected social issues, such as health." No surprise, then, that a 2000 who study ranking the health systems of 191 member countries placed China 144th, behind Indonesia and Bangladesh...
...dominant mantra of India's social and economic life. Economists estimate that the true size of India's GDP would be double the official $481 billion if the country's vast black economy were also taken into account. And while the nation fares slightly better than adjacent Pakistan and Bangladesh in terms of corruption, this is hardly an upstanding neighborhood. Each year, Transparency International (TI), an anticorruption watchdog, evaluates the world's countries according to how graft-free their societies are. This year India ranked 83rd, Pakistan 102nd, and Bangladesh, at 133rd, was dead last. With the world's second...
Kamen knows major health organizations probably won't buy into unproved technology, so he's taking his invention on the road. He's exploring distribution strategies in Bangladesh, and later this month he'll head to Africa to meet with Rwanda's President. He knows he has a lot to prove. "I have no credibility," he admits. "We have to get them in the field and document that they work." He believes, perhaps innocently, that he can save a lot of lives. Sometimes when you want to change the world, it helps to be a little naive...