Meet Shreedam Paal, a self-proclaimed bone doctor with no medical training at all. He claims he can fix any bone -- be it shin, thigh or shoulder -- no matter how badly fractured it is. Photo: Anisur Rahman
Shreedam checks the X-ray image to detect the fractured spot, applies self-invented herbal oil and places a splint on it, and then bandages the limb. And voila! The bone gets fixed soon, says the 87-year-old quack who is in the business for five decades. He claims he gets at least 100 patients a month. The photos were taken recently at his home in Daniapara Paalbari of Munshiganj's Sirajdikhan upazila. Photo: Anisur Rahman
This is the Sari river in Sylhet. In a unique way of sand extraction, people dive in the water and scoop up a bucket-load of sand from the riverbed each time. The sand, considered the finest for construction works, is then shipped off to different parts of the country. Several thousand workers do this every day over a stretch of 10 kilometers of the river at Jaintapur. The photos were taken recently. Photo: Anisur Rahman
This is the Sari river in Sylhet. In a unique way of sand extraction, people dive in the water and scoop up a bucket-load of sand from the riverbed each time. The sand, considered the finest for construction works, is then shipped off to different parts of the country. Several thousand workers do this every day over a stretch of 10 kilometers of the river at Jaintapur. The photos were taken recently. Photo:
Anisur Rahman
This is the Sari river in Sylhet. In a unique way of sand extraction, people dive in the water and scoop up a bucket-load of sand from the riverbed each time. The sand, considered the finest for construction works, is then shipped off to different parts of the country. Several thousand workers do this every day over a stretch of 10 kilometers of the river at Jaintapur. The photos were taken recently. Photo:
Anisur Rahman
