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Chuck, Abbu & Ammu at the Chittagong Club. built in the british colonial style, it still has its old charm. my dad finally gave up his membership last year - one can only become a member now if someone dies or gives up their membership135 views
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so many fond memories of the club. we used to spend entire days here every other weekend (we'd be on the houseboat on Kaptai Lake on others) -me in swimming pool w/ my friends, watching kiddie movies in the afternoons, my parents busy w/ their friends128 views
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inside a shipbreaking yard. scrap metal piled up118 views
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labourers in the shipbreaking yards, toiling away under the hot sun. apparently around 200,000 people work in the shipbreaking industry116 views
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outside the shipbreaking yards, on the side of the highway. lifeboats from ships. all along this stretch of the highway, any salvageable items from the ships (other than the metal) are sold - from refrigerators to condiment bottles113 views
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Chittagong city. so different now from when i lived there as a child. tall buildings everywhere, congested....111 views
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most of this tanker has been taken apart, its insides exposed110 views
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half this supertanker has been dismantled already. every part of the ship is going to end up getting used again - nothing is wasted here, everything possible is "recycled" in a poor country like bangladesh109 views
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Abbu (my dad) and Chuck. the labourers in the distance are carrying a huge refrigerator. almost all manual labour here - everything is done by hand. no cranes to lift & move heavy objects109 views
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it was fascinating to watch these monster huge ships being taken apart109 views
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most of the supertankers of the world are taken apart in Bangladesh, here in Chittagong, by the Bay of Bengal. you can see the ships in the background that are being dismantled.108 views
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bangladesh doesn't produce steel. 80% of our steel is derived from the scrap metal from these ships108 views
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bus passsing by us on the highway. they drive psychotically, you can see how beat up they get. rule of the road: if you are in a smaller vehicle, you move out of their way.100 views
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dark heavy monsoon clouds gathering. look at the little goat hanging out by itself in the corner99 views
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Chuck waiting by the side of our car while i''m taking photos99 views
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this one pic shows rice in its different stages of cultivation/growth. each plot is in a different growth cycle97 views
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bangladeshi trucks are colourfully painted, like the rickshaws93 views
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Karnaphuli River, by the side of which Chittagong City grew. look at all the ships here. the port is by the mouth of the bay of bengal, a little further down92 views
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a bigger version of the baby taxi on the highway. used to travel from one village/town to another91 views
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more of the countryside...91 views
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rafts of bamboo floating down the river at dusk90 views
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