Odyssey “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

Buriganga - My Photo scholarship 2012 entry

BANGLADESH | Monday, 14 January 2013 | Views [927] | View Larger Image

Inorganic waste and animal carcasses bobbing on the surface of the murky waters is a very common sight. Raw sewage, untreated industrial waste, food waste, medical waste, polythene bags, oil spill, the dying Buriganga has it all.

The river is used as a garbage yard by illegal factories and tanneries to dump their untreated waste without impediment. Moreover, rampant urbanization is choking the river. The land grabbers will, in the near future, evanesce the river with their current rate of illegal encroachment.

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Factories and brick kilns mushroom on the encroached 'chors' (riverine islands) as the river is slowly murdered.

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Odyssey “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

Buriganga - My Photo scholarship 2012 entry

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