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Four thousand tonnes of waste are deposited at Matuail Landfill in the southern outskirts of Bangladesh’s teeming capital every day. Matuail is the largest waste site in Dhaka as it is responsible for 65 percent of the total waste generated.

One of Dhaka's street kids talks about his life selling stickers at a busy intersection.

Published in Dhaka Live on 21 December 2010 “I’m not giving sermons,” says comedian Eddie Brill as he leans into the back of a plush sofa in a Dhaka hotel lobby, “But lately, in the States, I’ve started my shows by talking about lying.” Eddie then throws out a statement of epic rhetoric proportions: “If […]

An interview with Bangladeshi male model Fardeen Faisal.

The owner of Bangladesh’s first stand-up comedy club is working hard to find the funny side of Dhaka’s mind-numbing traffic jams and relentless power outages.

      Published in The Independent on 20 November 2010 For a person who achieved fame by cultivating the art of silence, mime artist Partha Pratim Majumder is surprisingly voluble offstage.  When I met the Paris-based performer at his hotel in Gulshan, he was breakfasting with an assortment of film directors and actors.  The […]

Published in The Independent, October 2010     Stepping inside The Sheraton’s Vintage Restaurant feels like rewinding the clock by two centuries and travelling a few thousand miles westwards.  The lighting in the antique-themed restaurant is as low as that cast by paraffin lamps; it throws a warm glow over a brass gramophone that rests […]

A review of the five star Italian restaurant, "Prego" at the Westin Hotel in Dhaka, Bangladesh

At 8pm in the heart of Dhaka’s industrial zone of Tejgaon, hundreds of young women file out of a garment factory onto the dark and dusty streets.