The resilience of people in northeastern Bangladesh against Himalayan flooding has been severely challenged this year. Thousands of homeless and destitute people have struggled to deal with extreme flooding.Sixty-five-year-old Nurjahan’s toe began to hurt after she fell down on the muddy way up to her home, which was made from corrugated tin walls.With her achy
Indomitable March
Sahebpara mass grave: An epitome of communal harmony
A Muslim and a Hindu woman offer prayers for souls of their martyred relatives at Sahebpara mass grave in Lalmonirhat town. Our Correspondent, Lalmonirhat Our Correspondent, Lalmonirhat The Pakistan army and Urdu-speaking Biharis killed my seven-year-old younger brother Binoy Chandra Das and four-year-old younger sister Minoti Rani Das before my very eyes, said a tearful Shefali Rani Das.
A Birangana of 1971, from Sahebpara area of Lalmonirhat town, Shefali is now 64 years of age. My father Charu Chandra Das was a railway driver. [That day] he was driving a train from Lalmonirhat to Burimari station. My mother went to visit a relative in the town. My two younger siblings and I were at home.