Who am I?
Welcome! I am a British Freelance Writer and Teacher working in Bangladesh. I also have ADHD.In these pages I discuss all of these things and I try to give you a picture of life in this part of Asia too.
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Tag Archives: rickshaws
Lungi wars and the battle for culture
I’ve written many times on the blog about my fear of the encroachment of the West on Asia – Bangladesh in particular. I have never believed that I came to Bangladesh to ‘help the poor’. I always knew Bangladesh would … Continue reading
Posted in Bangladesh, Culture
Tagged alal o dulal, Asian clothes, Bangladeshi clothes, Bangladeshi men, Bangladeshi youth, lungi, rickshaws
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Golden Oldie – Seven Things the British Should Know About Bangladesh
My blog is now very nearly one year old! To celebrate, over the next two weeks I am re-publishing two of my very oldest posts from the site I used to use before it crashed and I moved over to … Continue reading
Posted in Bangladesh, British, Corruption, Culture, Life
Tagged Bangla, Bangladesh, Bill Bryson, blog, Britain, British, corruption, culture, India, LAMB, language, life, poverty, rickshaws, take aways
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Rafiq The Wallah
This is Rafiq. Rafiq is one of the 400,000 Rickshaw wallahs cycling people to and fro in Dhaka. He is Muslim, lives in a village with his wife and two boys and … Continue reading
Bangla Maths
It never fails to amaze me how different cultures deal with maths. There are various different techniques across the world for mathematical calculation but none that I know more about, or find more interesting, than Bangladeshi maths. Firstly, a Bangladeshi … Continue reading
Posted in Bangladesh, British, Life
Tagged Bangla, Bangladesh, British, Dhaka, Differences, economics, families, Masthanghar, maths, National museum, numbers, rickshaws, taka, taxi, trains
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