Bangladesh

bazaar · river

Baingan or brinjal is retailed in huge baskets or tokras, at the vegetable market of Dhaka. Huge crowds stream in, in pre Corona days. large gunny bags and baskets full of veges are brought in and transacted upon.

bazaar · highway

Though the distance is 150 Km, it'll take around 6/7 hours to reach Cox's Bazar from Chittagong. Most buses are not air-conditioned and travelling by taxi/private car at night is not safe.

bazaar · highway

Though the distance is 150 Km, it'll take around 6/7 hours to reach Cox's Bazar from Chittagong. Most buses are not air-conditioned and travelling by taxi/private car at night is not safe.

Suffering and cutting the body with knives or chains (matam) was banned by the Shi'a Marja' Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon but still is practiced in Bangladesh and India.

coastline · river

Stroll along the flat bay of Patenga Beach, scattered with large chunks of concrete to deter erosion.

A Compressed Nature Gas CNG gas / fuel station on the way to Chittagong in Bangladesh, travelling from Dhaka. CNG gas station on the way to Chittagong in Bangladesh

ceremony · bazaar

Vegetable subzi shopping in Bangladesh! What are those leaf bracts? They look like Aloe Vera to us! Bananas, cucumbers and apples sell in the winter season.

bazaar

The Bangladesh duck market is a crowded affair and people of all sorts visit to buy ducks and fowl to re-stock their ponds and for other domestic uses.

river

Loaded cargo vessels heading towards Bangladesh via Hatania-Doyania river in West Bengal. See the Namkhana bridge over the river in West Bengal. The Rs 226-crore project took four years to complete.

bazaar

A daily dose of fresh produce for Dhaka brought to the Kawran Bazar by a horde of vegetable and fruit vendors. The famous wholesale greengrocery and fruits market in Dhaka is Kawran Bazar.

river · boats

While at Sadarghat be prepared to make your own way through as the terminals are extremely crowded. Be extremely careful of the edge as you do not want to fall into the stinky dirty water of Buriganga River.

Maida is mixed with water and kneaded, for starters. The dough ball is kneaded and then rolled with a belan on the metal surface of the table-top, and then placed with some oil onto the tava or heated surface of the stove-burner plate.

coastline · boats

Look at those huge residential and commercial buildings along the sea coast? Doesn't Bangladesh have a Coastal Regulation Zone as India goes, to prevent large scale construction along the sea coast? What about tsunami and other risks? Envir…

coastline · river

Stroll along the flat bay of Patenga Beach, scattered with large chunks of concrete to deter erosion.

coastline · bazaar

This is a relatively peaceful beach with not many crowds. Himchori beach and Kolatoli beach of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Kolatoli Beach is one of the most attractive beaches for the tourist in Cox’s Bazar.

highway · bus

Riding the bus riddled roads of Chittagong from Cox's Bazaar in Bangladesh. As you can see it's really sunny - well it's scorching really.

politics

In 1947 after nearly 200 years of British rule, India became an independent nation. With the birth of the nation came the pain of partition. Over ten million refugees had to be provided food, shelter, clothing and a means of livelihood.

coastline

Royal Navy Ship HMS Cleopatra (F28) participates with naval ships across the globe during International Fleet Review 2016 off the coast of Visakhapatnam, India.

Refugees living in Bangladesh captured doing their daily chores and mundane household tasks. A Bangladeshi woman clad in orange sari said she hopes to go to Pakistan some day.

hills · festival

Crowd and youths from the kuki tribe enjoying watching and perorming the indigenous game at Hornbill Fest.

highway

While on the national highway N-1 you will come across many more CNG pumps as compared to petrol pumps as most of the commercial vehicles in Bangladesh use CNG.

coastline · bazaar

While in Cox's Bazar take a stroll down the beach especially in the evening so that you don't miss out on the beautiful sunset over the Bay of Bengal. Laboni beach offers jet ski rides along with pony rides on the beach and quad bikes.

politics

Sushma Swaraj, one of the leading female political figures of BJP speaks at the SAARC Summit in Bangladesh. She thanks the leaders of the Bangladeshi Government and praises their hospitality.