Andrew Eagle

A Villager’s Guide to Feeding Foreigners

If you’re a straightforward villager like me, you’ll be curious to entertain the foreigner. Before you do there are things to consider. Foreigners have foreign ways; allowances are required. Yet, despite the inherent challenge it’s good to feed one. Even foreigners need to eat.

5y ago

Corporate training needs a Bangladeshi spin

Importing corporate training modules is fraught with danger. It’s time to recognise the uniqueness and strengths of Bangladeshi corporate culture, and for training providers to tailor sessions accordingly.

5y ago

Life lesson in Sylhet

Away from the news. Away from the enormity of a planet on the brink. Away from inner restlessness there is yet life. It’s what I learnt in Sylhet.

5y ago

At home in the saddle

She's determined and courageous: at the tender age of twelve, Tasmina Aktar from Chak Subolpur village in Naogaon's Dhamoirhat upazila has quite a reputation in horse racing circles. The seventh-grade student is accustomed to placing first or second in any race. As a jockey she's participated in around fifty events. Tasmina is a girl undeterred, happy to compete in a sport usually reserved for men.

6y ago

Natore's princess poet

For seven generations from the early-eighteenth century, the zamindars of Dighapatia near Natore were landlords of a vast estate,

6y ago

When darkness falls

Morzina Begum from Daktarpara in Rangpur town works in a bidi factory, rolling cheap cigarettes. Aged 75, it's not an ideal

6y ago

Bloom and grow, forever

In and around Mathorpara village, in Gaibandha's Shaghata upazila, it's become usual for every newborn child to be welcomed into the world with the planting of a tree. The tradition began three years ago by 28-year-old visual artist Gopal Chandra Barmon, as an extension of a tree-planting hobby carried from boyhood.

6y ago

Cost of floating farms on the rise

In wetland areas of Pirojpur, farming on floating seedbeds called “dhap” is a tradition that spans centuries. Primarily constructed from water hyacinth, the seedbeds that are up to 180 feet long, four feet wide and two feet thick, allow farming in areas otherwise unavailable for regular crops. But this year, the rising cost of floating cultivation has farmers worried.

6y ago

April 23, 2017

Change Makers: UNSTOPPABLE

In the villages of Lalmonirhat's Aditmari upazila the sight of a jolly, very elderly woman moving about house to house on a bicycle, from morning into the afternoon, isn't unusual.

April 19, 2017

Fairy floss a favourite

In Lalmonirhat and across the country, no village fair can truly be complete without stalls selling fairy floss, the sweet called hawai

April 18, 2017

Water crisis in villages

In Jalahar, a Santal village in Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila, it's becoming difficult to find a glass of water. To serve the 175 village

April 18, 2017

Sweepers grow old, too

The assurance of an employment-related pension in old age is an important consideration for many who choose to pursue public sector careers. But for sweepers like Faridpur town's 75-year-old Babur Ali, retirement is unimaginable. Despite 45 years service in keeping the town clean he is still hired on a day-to-day basis, without any of the benefits one might expect from such dedicated public service.

April 16, 2017