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 If I were asked to write a paragraph about river, I would have started “Bangladesh is a Riverine country”. I guess students do this still while sit for their Bangladesh Studies exam. However, how far the fact still makes sense is a big question. Continuous pollution, erosion and encroachment have led the ‘Riverine Bangladesh’ a seasonal reality. Moreover, majority of the people who were dependent on the rivers for their living have already changed their profession. The eventual deaths of the rivers are increasingly making the distinct culture and the ways of living of those people a history. ‘Sandar’ an anthropologically distinct group of people who were dependent on the rivers for their livelihood are gradually changing their profession and station. They used to live in boats and live on fishing. Now a day, they can hardly depend on fishing as the small rivers in the country do not exist except during the monsoon. And they cannot live in the boats as rivers have been encroached where they used to live. They never thought, one day they have to move to dry places to live leaving their boats. But the tough reality has made them live on the land and change their professions. There are still some boats of this people at the porabari area of Savar but no one knows how many days are left before the gypsy ‘Sandars’ will live only in the memory of their descendents living on the land.  

Sandar: Revisiting a Riverine Bangladesh
©  Mahabub Alam Khan

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    Dr. Rofiqul Islam, assistant professor at the National Institute of Chest Diseases & Hospital, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh, is working for Tuberculosis (TB) prevention. Every day he gives treatment to nearly 50 patients of various kinds of TB, some of them from rural areas.  

TB(Tuberculosis) in Bangladesh
©  Amdadul Huq

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 Jaflong, sylhet. February 16, 2010.  

Story for River Quarry
©  Amdadul Huq

Jaflong, sylhet. February 16, 2010.  ...  More

    Rafiq, a labourer approaches the submerged paddies at the Dingabuta Haor in Mohanganj. Desperate farmers paid as much as 800 taka per labourer a day to recover paddies which is more than five times the usual amount. Netrokona, Bangladesh. April 22, 2010.  

When the Dam Breaks
©  A.M.Ahad

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 Welcome to Heaven. Girl greeting a new client in the brothel. Doulodia, Rajbari, Bangladesh. May 31,2009  

Requiem for Freedom
©  Masud Alam Liton

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    A group of workers in the ship breaking yard in Bangladesh. These workers are usually from the poor northern parts of Bangladesh. These labourers toil for almost 10-14 hours a day in ship breaking yard. Chittagong, Bangladesh. 6th March 2009  

Chittagong Ship breaking Yard is causing environmental imbalance
©  Wahid Adnan

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