Daily Life | Dhaka

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Dhaka,  Bangladesh November 2012

“Line is a rich metaphor for the artist. It is literally movement and change-itself”

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Portrait | Dhaka

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Dhaka, Keranigonj, Bangladesh June 2013

A Bangladeshi dock yard labor Milon 48, take a pose and smile  for photos in front of repaired Ship. He  works as a day labor and earn 280 tk per day. Thousand of dock workers laboring on ships in Keranigonj yard on the Buriganga river, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Daily Life | Dhaka

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Dhaka, Keranigonj, Bangladesh May 2013

A Bangladeshi garments workers works in a small factory during the nationwide strike in Dhaka.

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Daily Life | Dhaka

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Dhaka, Bangladesh June 2012 .

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP ) supporter try to set a poster on the wall  at the BNP Nayapalton office in Dhaka city.

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Dhaka Turns Battleground

Several hundred thousand supporters of the conservative Hefazat-e-Islami group, which is based on traditional madras’s religious schools, launched their protest on Sunday 05 May, 2013.  When they blocked several key roads into the city and clashed with police in the central Dhaka several of their supporters were killed and many more were critical injured during their clash with police. Hefajat-e Islami Bangladesh protests continue demanding a new blasphemy law include their 13 point.

The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the country’s main Islamic party, claims that hundreds of people were killed when the police broke up the protests. The police, meanwhile, have counted 38 dead so far, and said dozens more were being treated in local hospitals. They also announced the arrest of 194 Hefajat-e-Islam activists.

 

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Savar Tragedy Victims | Bangladesh

Pakhi Begum 25, lost both of her legs in the Rana Plaza building collapse. Pakhi works as a machine operator on the fifth floor of the nine-storey building when it collapsed in April 24, 2013. Her legs trapping under the concrete bar, her husband Jahangir Alam 30, and her two daughters said, we are very happy to see her alive, when lots of people were either missing or dead. Several injured victims like Pakhi they are admitted in Savar and Dhaka different hospital for the treatment here is some critical patient who are admitted at Enam Medical College and Hospital in Savar.

Reports state that the death toll rose over 540 ( update 4 May, 2013)  and many more still missing, according to a senior military official leading rescue operations at the spot. 52 bodies were recovered on 03 May 2013 after the eight-storey building Rana Plaza housed mostly garment factories which collapsed on 24 April 2013.

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Daily Life | Dhaka

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Dhaka, Bangladesh May 2013 .

I have seen Bengal’s face, and seek no more,

The world has not anything more beautiful to show me . . .

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Daily Life | Ashulia

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Ashulia, Savar, Bangladesh December 2006 .

A  villager use their traditional cultivation to prepare  paddy fields in Savar area.

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Dozens Killed in Savar Building Collapse

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April 24, 2013 – Dhaka, Bangladesh – A garment worker lies trapped in the rubble. At least 124 people have been killed and many more are feared trapped after an eight-storey building collapsed in the Savar area on the outskirts of the capital, government officials say. (Credit Image: © Monirul Alam/ZUMAPRESS.com)

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April 24, 2013 – Dhaka, Bangladesh – The daughter of a woman killed in the collapse mourns over her body. At least 124 people have been killed and many more are feared trapped after an eight-storey building collapsed in the Savar area on the outskirts of the capital, government officials say. (Credit Image: © Monirul Alam/ZUMAPRESS.com)

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Daily Life | Munshigonj

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Munshiganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh May 2007 .

A group of village children takes a bath and  enjoying  themselves with new seasonal water.

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