“No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries, than the image of children, happy or in need.” ChildrenPoliticsWestAidDeveloping World Author:Zia Haider Rahman
“My parents have always had a very limited command of English. Of course, when we first arrived in the UK, none of us spoke English, but it's much easier for a child to pick up languages. But the problem was not a lack of English; the problem was poor communication in any language. Remember, my parents came from rural Bangladesh with little education. It was alarming for them, I'm sure, to watch their boy very quickly exhaust whatever ability they had to teach the child something.” ChildrenProblemRememberLanguageParentAbilityPoorBoysTeachCommunication Author:Zia Haider Rahman
“I had an indefatigable curiosity about everything. But why should my fate have depended upon that? Why does the curiosity of a child born into the lowest classes have to overcome everything put in his or her way to mute that curiosity, when a child born to parents with access to the advantages of life will have his meager curiosity kindled and nurtured? The unfairness is horrifying when it is properly understood as an unfairness meted out on children, on infants, on babies.” ChildrenParentFateBabyOvercomingCuriosityLowestInfantUnfairness Author:Zia Haider Rahman
