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Postcards & Giftcards of Bangladesh on sale
July 20, 2008 6:51 pm
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Have you been stuck searching for the brighter side of Bangladesh in pictures? Search no more.
Our photography (Belinda Meggitt and Mikey Leung) is now on sale as gift cards or postcards. Special edition prints are up for grabs too—contact us. We’ll show you the beautiful, the bold and the brazen side of Bangladesh that you may have yet to see.
Best of all, 10 percent of proceeds are being donated to The Dhaka Project.
The cards are available for purchase at the following fine shopping venues:
- Jatra, 60 Kamal Ataturk Avenue, Gulshan-Banani Bridge above Aranya
- Word and Pages, 125 Gulshan Avenue, close to Gulshan 2
- Ideas Manzil, House 19, Road 79, Gulshan 2
- Mermaid Cafe, Cox’s Bazaar beachside
- Bishaud Bangla, Mehedibagh, Chittagong
For viewings or delivery by the Joybangla rickshaw:
E-mail us: joybangla [DOT] info [AT] gmail.com or use the contact form.
Responsible Business Bangladesh steps up its game
June 13, 2008 4:35 pm
RBBA, or “Responsible Business Bangladesh,” is a new initiative of Florence Calvet, a French national who has an excellent sense of duty to the people she employs and about the kind of business she wants to create.
In her own words:
What is behind the idea of RBBA and Chez Flo. It’s what I call Responsible Business or Ethic Business. It’s a way to help people from Bangladesh from inside meaning that I am helping them to develop business, generate incomes and then use this money to help more people.
Florence has started the business with a new guesthouse named Chez Flo, located in Uttara, a northern suburb of Bangladesh’s capital city Dhaka. Currently, there are two well-decorated rooms and a series of masterfully prepared deserts, cakes and drinks on offer, all created by Chez Flo’s staff under Florence’s guidance.
It’s an encouraging development to see new initiatives like Ms. Calvet’s—certainly we hope to visit the cafe the next time we’re in Uttara!
Her address:
Road 2, House 4
Uttara Sector 4
Dhaka, BANGLADESH
tel: +880 1732 284 946
http://www.chezflobangladesh.com/
Dhamrai Metal Works Exhibition, May 1-2
April 24, 2008 11:05 am
~story by Mikey Leung~
The German Club (House No. 24, Road. No. 104) is hosting an exhibition of brass sculptures on May 1st and 2nd, 09:30am - 19:30pm. The sculptures were produced by the Banik family of the Dhamrai Metal Works and the designs are splendidly intricate and detailed. Sukanta Banik has long been fighting to preserve this art, which he says has been in his family for generations.
You can see more pictures from my visit to Dhamrai here.
The exhibition is being held because Sukanta says he needs to raise funds and save his historic house, the same venue where the sculptures are produced. He writes:
Many of you have been here – visited it, seen a demonstration or two, walked though hallways, browsed in our shop, had a cold drink or a cup of my mother’s lemon tea. In a short time, our family might lose this place.
Fake guidebooks and some insight into the publishing world
April 15, 2008 2:57 pmTouring Old Dhaka? Talk to the Urban Study Group
April 14, 2008 2:54 pm
Homaira and Taimur of Dhaka’s Urban Study Group have started offering guided explorations of Old Dhaka, on both the weekends and weekdays, in an effort to see some of the older buildings preserved and restored. Here’s a quote from their recent mailings regarding the preservation work they’re attempting to do:
While our documentation of the other mohallahs of Ward 72 are going on, we have started documenting the Sutrapur and Farashganj area also . At present we are trying to start actual restoration work on few small-scale projects in Shakhari Bazaar and Tati Bazaar which we hope will have a snowball effect; we’ll soon send out detailed information on the projects.
Today’s update is about another heritage building at risk. A grand mansion is being demolished in Farashganj for redevelopment by the owners. USG has already documented the building and trying to negotiate with the owners with conservation proposal with the half that is still standing and is also trying to persuade the goverment officials regarding the possible modification of the current building construction rules to facilitate conservation while protecting the economic interest of the owners/developers.
Want to find out more information? Send an e-mail to friendsofsb [AT] gmail.com.
It’s a dogfight: airline competition heats up in Bangladesh
April 3, 2008 9:00 pmConserving the Sundarbans Tigers: The Sundarbans Tiger Project speaks out
March 30, 2008 4:15 pm
Tigers are in the news again, but finally we’re hearing from the conservationist side of the story. As Adam Barlow writes:
I hope, for the sake of the tigers, that there will be no further unbalanced attacks the media that are at best divisive and at worse damage tiger conservation. It is much easier to criticize other people’s efforts to save the tiger than to create solutions or come to work in the forest to help save tigers.
While we debate tiger darting in the newspapers for example, more cows and dogs have been killed in Chandpai where we were trying to collar a problem tiger. The same tiger has killed over 60 domestic animals and one person. Livestock depredation by tigers is common in the eastern Sundarbans and man-eating is rampant in the West. Surely these kinds of issues deserve more attention in the newspapers.
As recorded by the BBC news regarding Sirajul’s article “According to Raghu Chundawat, a Delhi-based wildlife scientist who is not connected to the project, any long-term suspension of the radio-collar programme would be a “disaster” for the Sundarbans, and doubts about the safety of the drugs are “absolute nonsense”.” What does it achieve to attack people’s efforts to conserve tigers in the press? I think that the Forest Department’s efforts to save the Sundarbans tigers should be highly commended. The tigers’ only hope is that people can work together in a constructive way and I ask the Bangladesh people to unite behind tiger conservation before it is too late.
For more info:
- See www.sundarbanstigerproject.info.
- The original offending article.
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