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THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE FROM NEW AGE

January, 2007 @newagebd.com Main Page « Front Page « Metro « Business « International « Sports « National « Editorial « Op-Ed « Home « Timeout « Letters «

We admit it. We hated 2006. So here’s a lame and inexhaustive list that we drew up to makes ourselves feel better... 24-hours at the DMCH Saad Hammadi spends nights at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital posing as a ward-boy and witnesses the rampant chaos, corruption, and negligence that has become the hallmark of our finest public hospital... Blood on your hands Mahfuz Sadique investigates the spate of ‘encounter killings’ carried out by our security forces and the implications of this in a democratic state... Borneo Diary Mashida R Haider returns from the ancient rainforests of Malaysian Borneo with a good mind to revert to the wild... Of innocence robbed Mehrin Lubna and Tahmina Shafique unravel the curse of child marriages in Bangladesh, exploring its social and cultural roots and building a case for why we need to combat it...

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