“All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.” WantHomeReturnIndiaAdoptedBangladeshMotherland Author:Taslima Nasrin
“Bangladesh is not India, Pakistan, South Africa or Australia.” IndiaSouthAustraliaSouth AfricaPakistanBangladeshIndia Pakistan Author:Sourav Ganguly
“Now, if you're rich, you can spend a lot of money, Netherlands-style, and reduce that. But Bangladesh or parts of India, like Calcutta, they just simply won't be able to afford that kind of protection.” IfsKindAbleRichStyleIndiaProtectionLots Of MoneyCalcuttaBangladeshNetherlands Author:Bill Gates
“I think in theory, the United States finds it much easier to deal with situations where there is a leading country. You can go to the leaders of that country and say, for example, to India, "There are all these problems in Bangladesh, we really have to do something about it, what do you suggest we can do to work out a common policy?" But when you don't have the equivalent of India, you have to go capital to capital trying to put together a coalition, which is extraordinarily difficult, especially in the Arab world, because of the historic rivalries and branches of Islam.” ThinkingWorldTryingCountryStatesProblemTogetherDifficultCan DoUnitedDealsCommonSituationLeaderUnited StatesPolicyExampleTheoryEasierIndiaIslamWork OutBranchesHistoricCoalitionsRivalryBangladeshArab World Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of places in India, etc. When I would go and talk to villagers about something like vaccines, if I stayed long enough, the women would bring the conversation around and say: "What about this family planning tool? We can't keep having the number of children we're having."” IfsYearsKindChildrenLongEnoughLastsNumbersConversationToolsIndiaSouthPlanningAll KindsEtcSouth AfricaVaccinesSlumsBangladeshFamily Planning Author:Melinda Gates
“Just a few years ago India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were one country. Actually, we were many countries if you count the princely states.... Then the British drew a line, and now we're three countries, two of them pointing nukes at each other - the radical Hindu bomb and the radical Muslim bomb.” IfsYearsTwoCountryStatesThreeLinesYears AgoIndiaBritishRadicalBombsPakistanPointingBangladeshNukesIndia Pakistan Author:Arundhati Roy
“When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.” WayCareOpportunityIndiaIncludingGenderPracticalsObsessionMy WayHealth CareAwardsLiteracyEquityNobelBangladesh Author:Amartya Sen
“I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from.” PeopleWorldTryingCountryWholeUsedUnderstandingPoorGainsIndiaRangeKoreaOrganisationPhilippinesBangladeshPoor CountriesWorld Health Author:Robert Winston
“I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.” FightingThreeFiveRightsIndiaThreatBangladesh Author:Taslima Nasrin