Until just a few decades ago, Chawkbazar, inside Old Dhaka, still had a reputation as the heart of the city. But as Dhaka grew bigger and bigger, becoming a sprawling urban metropolis, the ...

At Azimpur near old Dhaka hired labourers clear weeds. It is one of the city's biggest and the best known cemeteries and thousands of graves stretch in every direction, most in a dismal state.

The brigadier general was one of nine Bangladeshi officers, retired or serving, who Dhaka sent to the Indian Army's Eastern Command headquarters to join a tradition now 54 years old: the December ...