Bangladeshis

By today's standards, a cull of Australians or Americans would be at least 60 times as productive as one of Bangladeshis.

Its performance has so far been so good, and the memory of the BNP and what followed it is so painful that most Bangladeshis seem happy.

That will give Bangladeshis the opportunity, though perhaps a few elections hence, to start to resolve their problems peacefully.

Much more will be accomplished if all Bangladeshis can unite for the common purpose of the poorest people of this country.

Even Bangladeshis, a pretty deprived lot, do twice as well as the natives in their exams; Indians and Chinese do better still.

So when the rules governing exports to rich countries were changed at the beginning of 2005, Bangladeshis feared huge job losses.

Copies of the tape were e-mailed among some Bangladeshis last week before it spread more widely over the Internet.

The last time Bangladeshis had the chance to vote out a government was in 2001.

Almost all non-Bengali Bangladeshis speak Bangla as a second language.

That is an arrangement many Bangladeshis would like to see endure.

There's so much water, but very little fish, even though fish is the most important commodity in the lives of the Bangladeshis.

Only rich Americans can eat as much hilsa as middle-class Bangladeshis.

Lately, the Minister of Interior in Bahrain issued a decree banning issuing new work permits for Bangladeshis! !

In addition to the many thousands of Egyptian workers, there are hundreds of others stranded here, including many Bangladeshis.

Many local Bangladeshis dispute the refugees' claims.

But the Bangladeshis have been reluctant hosts.

Afghans, Bangladeshis and Ghanaians will be casting their votes this Friday in the world's first cross-border election.

Many Bangladeshis, however, still doubt that the promise will be kept.

Recently in the Rupganj Upazilla near capital Dhaka Bangladeshis saw another kind of land grab.

Most Bangladeshis (about 83%) are Muslims while Hindus constitute a sizable (16%) minority.

On the eve of the global recession, about 6m Bangladeshis worked abroad.

There is little support for these arguments among ordinary Bangladeshis.

On December 14 last year, 26 Bangladeshis woke up and left as usual for their Dhaka garment factory.

Last year 875, 000 Bangladeshis took on jobs abroad.

According to Human Rights Watch, India's force has killed almost 1, 000 Bangladeshis over the past ten years.