Urban and Regional Planning URP

This is a tale of how a medical technology was adapted, revised and presented to ad illiterate public through house-to-house health education by a small army of dedicated health workers. Through a decade of persistent work, the entire BRAC organization initiated this ambitious programme, and inspite of all skepticism from the global public health community, carried the science of oral therapy into every home in Bangladesh. Never before, or since, has a public health effort of this intensity been tried.

In The Festivals of Bangladesh Muntassir Mamoon reports from a variety of flash points across Bangladesh. Getting out on to the streets to get beyond the rituals, Mamoon paints a radical portrait of the struggles, hopes and needs of the people. The Other Bangladesh: religious festivals: Eid, Muharram, Janmastami, Durga Puja New year all are powerfully portrayed as the festivals where high versus low culture is intertwined, in which artists and common men, religious devotees and intellectuals, all striving in various ways to embrace the multicultural society we live in. 

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Banker to the Poor is an autobiographical account of the founder of the Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus. This work is fundamental rethink on the economic relationship between the rich and the poor, their rights and obligations. The Grameen Bank is founded on principles of trust and solidarity. Muhammad Yunus believes that the right to credit should be recognized as a fundamental human right because credit is the last hope left to those faced with absolute poverty.

Violence and injustice against women are common phenomena in Bangladesh due to the traditional patriarchal socioeconomic structure and mindset. Bangladesh has significant constitutional provision and statutory laws guaranteeing human and fundamental rights and women’s equal rights. However, poor quality of governance and non-implementation of these national policies have undermined the constitutional pledges.