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The dysfunctional megacity: why Dhaka is bursting at the sewers

Infact the problem is same across 3 large nations of subcontinent, India / Pak / BD with 50% of the current population would look much different


Bangladesh population density is around 1250 persons per km2. Check the countries with much higher population density. Holland population density is also very high around 500 person per km2. It is more about better distribution of wealth and resources...the divide between rich and poor is stark in all the south Asian countries.

Rich people paying taxes to help the poor, here it is the opposite. Indirect taxes are actually like poor lower middle helping the rich, whole system is flawed.

Reducing the population by half is far fetched, Bangladesh already has a very low population growth rate of 1.1%, need replacement growth rate.


Rank Country / dependent territory Density (/km2)
1 Macau (China) 18,534
2 Monaco 16,923
3 Singapore 7,148
4 Hong Kong (China) 6,349
 
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At the same time one must remember that western media, be it Guardian, Telegraph and specially the English media will always show a negative side of not just Bangladesh, but also of India and Pakistan.

I remember some Turkish private TV report on Imran Khan, the PTI chief, the principal was a western media house, they deliberately showed Islamabads one and only Afghan Basti, a slum and the only slum in Islamabad whereas more than 98% of the city is all planned and have no slums.

It makes it look as though Islamabad has slums in large areas and had deliberately and purposefully picked the worst areas of Rawalpindi and showed it as Islamabad.

Pick any news from BBC media as well...they will show India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in the worst light as possible.

Quite a few/many parts of Dacca are actually well planned and very green and clean too...

It's something to do with the British empire packing up from subcontinent and the end of Raj...and they had this weird nostalgia about it like...look! things were better when we were there in power...kind of thoughts.


Dhaka is an unlivable city for years, my friend.It's nothing like Islamabad.The commute is unbearable if you travel from one side to another in 4 hours you are lucky.Grocery and fruits are full of formalin, few entertainment spots, polluted air but the worst part is its drainage system. One hour of rain food half of Dhaka city, you won't be able to walk with your shoes on at least for 30min. We don't have that much load shedding though. This is my neighborhood, it's not Gulshan league but kinda cool
 
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"Indian Minister Says 2,000 Girls Are Killed Across the Country Every Day
“You have 2,000 girls who are killed in the womb every day,” Maneka Gandhi told news channel NDTV in an interview. “Some are born and have pillows on their faces choking them.”

Female infanticide is a historic problem in India’s highly patriarchal society, as daughters are often viewed as a burden because of the continuing prevalence of the dowry system.
http://time.com/3830874/2000-girls-killed-every-day-india-minister/ "

Sadly, ironically if those girls were conceived in Bangladesh or Pakistan they would all be alive today !!
What do you want to say? Do you intend to say that if these baby girls are saved in India, they will move to Shonar Bangla and clean all the dirty streets and earth-filled gutters? You guys do not want to know under what environment people in BD live!!
 
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What do you want to say? Do you intend to say that if these baby girls are saved in India, they will move to Shonar Bangla and clean all the dirty streets and earth-filled gutters? You guys do not want to know under what environment people in BD live!!

The point is pretty obvious.
 
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We can't talk specially with a city like Karachi lying around.
When i saw ur nick i knew it will be a post taking potshot at pakistan. Someone who is jealous of kashmiris and badmouths them, someone who is jealous of people mentioning their tall heights ,someone who cant tolerate hearing anything positive about anyone , someone who always writes negative shytt on pakistan in every discussion even if positive cause of his inferiority complexes with pakistan and Pakistanis, someone who character assaissnates a man like Jinnah to defend a bakwas politician like imran khan whose most of the day time is spent thinking about getting his private part up,you make quite a good case for an indian or bangladeshi arsewipe ,time to fck off to those countries.


At the same time one must remember that western media, be it Guardian, Telegraph and specially the English media will always show a negative side of not just Bangladesh, but also of India and Pakistan.

I remember some Turkish private TV report on Imran Khan, the PTI chief, the principal was a western media house, they deliberately showed Islamabads one and only Afghan Basti, a slum and the only slum in Islamabad whereas more than 98% of the city is all planned and have no slums.

It makes it look as though Islamabad has slums in large areas and had deliberately and purposefully picked the worst areas of Rawalpindi and showed it as Islamabad.

Pick any news from BBC media as well...they will show India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in the worst light as possible.

Quite a few/many parts of Dacca are actually well planned and very green and clean too...

It's something to do with the British empire packing up from subcontinent and the end of Raj...and they had this weird nostalgia about it like...look! things were better when we were there in power...kind of thoughts.


For over a year one thing i have seen u doing consistently on this forum is always shamelessly defending bangdeshis even if they are abusing pakistan.

Issue with some leeches we have gotten in pakistan is that even tho their elders did migrate from bango desh to pakistan but their family loyalties towards that country has stayed.

Infact the zeal with which i have always seen u defending bangladesh in wouldn't be shocked if u turn out to be an illegal bangodeshi living in karachi.
 
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Dhaka is an unlivable city for years, my friend.It's nothing like Islamabad.The commute is unbearable if you travel from one side to another in 4 hours you are lucky.Grocery and fruits are full of formalin, few entertainment spots, polluted air but the worst part is its drainage system. One hour of rain food half of Dhaka city, you won't be able to walk with your shoes on at least for 30min. We don't have that much load shedding though. This is my neighborhood, it's not Gulshan league but kinda cool

It boils down to energy. You need energy to purify water, treat sewage and pump water out of low lying areas
as solar energy gets cheaper you might be able to accomplish it
 
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It is India's misfortune that we are surrounded by countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan and not countries like Korea and Japan.
No actually this isn't the misfortune of India .
But this is the fortune of counties like Korea and Japan that they aren't Neighbor of India .
Because if India was their neighbor , Japanese or Koreans would be in trouble of the odor of sh!t .

Mass indians would cross the border and by that time definitely they would defecate there .
Japanese and Koreans should thank ( for this fortune) the almighty because they aren't indian neighbor.

Sometimes i feel Indian or Pakistani politicians would've done better job with this city. Dhaka is definitely not a attractive city to live in.
Yes you are right . Only some posh areas are better in Dhaka . But other places are bad .
Other small towns of BD are much better to live because they have much less polution than Dhaka .

Lots of peoples from small towns live in Dhaka only because of their job .
 
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When i saw ur nick i knew it will be a post taking potshot at pakistan. Someone who is jealous of kashmiris and badmouths them, someone who is jealous of people mentioning their tall heights ,someone who cant tolerate hearing anything positive about anyone , someone who always writes negative shytt on pakistan in every discussion even if positive cause of his inferiority complexes with pakistan and Pakistanis, someone who character assaissnates a man like Jinnah to defend a bakwas politician like imran khan whose most of the day time is spent thinking about getting his private part up,you make quite a good case for an indian or bangladeshi arsewipe ,time to fck off to those countries.



For over a year one thing i have seen u doing consistently on this forum is always shamelessly defending bangdeshis even if they are abusing pakistan.

Issue with some leeches we have gotten in pakistan is that even tho their elders did migrate from bango desh to pakistan but their family loyalties towards that country has stayed.

Infact the zeal with which i have always seen u defending bangladesh in wouldn't be shocked if u turn out to be an illegal bangodeshi living in karachi.

So tell me, how can one be a patriot ???
By closing one's eyes to everything bad or wrong , start pretending that we live in a developed country with no issues and we are born superior to all others ??? Cursing India or Bangladesh?
Is this what you call patriotism???
Do you actually think that writing on forums or winning an argument from an Indian or a Bangladeshi proves that you and your silly childish fancies are right?
Dont you know what Karachi used to be and what Karachi is now. A city by the sea, where 70 percent of its residents don't have access to water, and those who do have access to water, that water contains arsenic and human waste.
Do you know that a city of a magnitude of Karachi has not even an idea of transport system, while in 60s trams used to roam on the roads.
Do you know we gave the dirtiest of all beaches in the world?
There is no severege plant working in a city of 2 caror and no waste management mechanism. Every nook and cranny is littered with kachra.
Do you know that the law and order situation is under control because of rangers for past 4 years , they have maintained law and order but still the fear of deterioration lurks in the hindsight. The civilian government is unable to give an alternative metropolitan policing system. As soon as the rangers leave, ready yourself to see the violence and everything return.
And all those talks of washrooms and slums, don't even go there. Whole Karachi is kind of slum.

Now having a city like Karachi.
And even my city lahore, the dirtiest city ever on earth , maybe it looks good in Ariel shots or some roads or underpasses but the city is no where in standing to compete any international city with tiny slums popping everywhere between palaces.
And don't even go to other cities or villages.
A country where majority of childern are victims of malnutrition.
A country where those who can afford food, can only buy poisoned steroid full meat, eggs, milk , or vegetable grown with sewage water.
A country where childern in thar desert are dying even in winters.
A country where childern don't have their brains and bodies developed because of malnutrition.
A country where hapetitis b is so common and even aids is growing too.
In your mind, everything is fine as long as we are better then India or Bangladesh.
They too have the same problems like us, but is this the justification of our failure?
Atleast their states are working, pakistan is not working, it is at a stand still.
We have laws made by the English in 1800s, which we still apply in this modern world.
Our politicians never wanted to modernise our judicial system , our police and our goverence system , because they are the biggest beneficiaries of this corrupt system.
Everything is a mess. While people like you like to pretend all is well...
A person like you, who has not even seen Paris in movies, would eat donkey Biryani, dance in front of nawaz sherif jalsa and claim that Lahore is developed at par with Paris.
Forget about whole Pakistan, usually patwaris like you thinks that pakistan consists of Lahore city or maximum punjab province , forget about other provinces for a minute, even interior punjab is facing at least 5 to 6 hours of Loadshedding.
Even I have Loadshedding in posh areas of Lahore for an hour.
This is what the new government had done by building the expensive coal power plants.

Those who live in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones.
P. S I never said anything bad about kashmiris, I never can.
 
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So tell me, how can one be a patriot ???
By closing one's eyes to everything bad or wrong , start pretending that we live in a developed country with no issues and we are born superior to all others ??? Cursing India or Bangladesh?
Is this what you call patriotism???
Do you actually think that writing on forums or winning an argument from an Indian or a Bangladeshi proves that you and your silly childish fancies are right?
Dont you know what Karachi used to be and what Karachi is now. A city by the sea, where 70 percent of its residents don't have access to water, and those who do have access to water, that water contains arsenic and human waste.
Do you know that a city of a magnitude of Karachi has not even an idea of transport system, while in 60s trams used to roam on the roads.
Do you know we gave the dirtiest of all beaches in the world?
There is no severege plant working in a city of 2 caror and no waste management mechanism. Every nook and cranny is littered with kachra.
Do you know that the law and order situation is under control because of rangers for past 4 years , they have maintained law and order but still the fear of deterioration lurks in the hindsight. The civilian government is unable to give an alternative metropolitan policing system. As soon as the rangers leave, ready yourself to see the violence and everything return.
And all those talks of washrooms and slums, don't even go there. Whole Karachi is kind of slum.

Now having a city like Karachi.
And even my city lahore, the dirtiest city ever on earth , maybe it looks good in Ariel shots or some roads or underpasses but the city is no where in standing to compete any international city with tiny slums popping everywhere between palaces.
And don't even go to other cities or villages.
A country where majority of childern are victims of malnutrition.
A country where those who can afford food, can only buy poisoned steroid full meat, eggs, milk , or vegetable grown with sewage water.
A country where childern in thar desert are dying even in winters.
A country where childern don't have their brains and bodies developed because of malnutrition.
A country where hapetitis b is so common and even aids is growing too.
In your mind, everything is fine as long as we are better then India or Bangladesh.
They too have the same problems like us, but is this the justification of our failure?
Atleast their states are working, pakistan is not working, it is at a stand still.
We have laws made by the English in 1800s, which we still apply in this modern world.
Our politicians never wanted to modernise our judicial system , our police and our goverence system , because they are the biggest beneficiaries of this corrupt system.
Everything is a mess. While people like you like to pretend all is well...
A person like you, who has not even seen Paris in movies, would eat donkey Biryani, dance in front of nawaz sherif jalsa and claim that Lahore is developed at par with Paris.
Forget about whole Pakistan, usually patwaris like you thinks that pakistan consists of Lahore city or maximum punjab province , forget about other provinces for a minute, even interior punjab is facing at least 5 to 6 hours of Loadshedding.
Even I have Loadshedding in posh areas of Lahore for an hour.
This is what the new government had done by building the expensive coal power plants.

Those who live in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones.
P. S I never said anything bad about kashmiris, I never can.

Whatever suspicion you come under, you have made a fine point. I've been trying to say this for a while...Most South Asian countries follow similar trends. We cannot criticize a nation if we are victim of the same issue. I try make some PDF'ers understand that slums are not exclusive to just one country but the ignorance is...Mad.
 
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BD has enough resources, enough fertile lands, enough water, and enough industries,
All it has to do is implement one child policy,

Need to reduce population to 50% or 33%,

The total fertility rate in Bangladesh is 2.17 children born/woman (2017 est.) which is close to replacement rate and which is of course, lower than India (2.40 children born/woman) which is World Bank data.

https://www.indexmundi.com/bangladesh/demographics_profile.html

Pakistan's is 3.55 children born per woman.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...census-disaster-poverty-million-a7938816.html

So tell me, how can one be a patriot ???
By closing one's eyes to everything bad or wrong , start pretending that we live in a developed country with no issues and we are born superior to all others ??? Cursing India or Bangladesh?
Is this what you call patriotism???
Do you actually think that writing on forums or winning an argument from an Indian or a Bangladeshi proves that you and your silly childish fancies are right?
Dont you know what Karachi used to be and what Karachi is now. A city by the sea, where 70 percent of its residents don't have access to water, and those who do have access to water, that water contains arsenic and human waste.
Do you know that a city of a magnitude of Karachi has not even an idea of transport system, while in 60s trams used to roam on the roads.
Do you know we gave the dirtiest of all beaches in the world?
There is no severege plant working in a city of 2 caror and no waste management mechanism. Every nook and cranny is littered with kachra.
Do you know that the law and order situation is under control because of rangers for past 4 years , they have maintained law and order but still the fear of deterioration lurks in the hindsight. The civilian government is unable to give an alternative metropolitan policing system. As soon as the rangers leave, ready yourself to see the violence and everything return.
And all those talks of washrooms and slums, don't even go there. Whole Karachi is kind of slum.

Now having a city like Karachi.
And even my city lahore, the dirtiest city ever on earth , maybe it looks good in Ariel shots or some roads or underpasses but the city is no where in standing to compete any international city with tiny slums popping everywhere between palaces.
And don't even go to other cities or villages.
A country where majority of childern are victims of malnutrition.
A country where those who can afford food, can only buy poisoned steroid full meat, eggs, milk , or vegetable grown with sewage water.
A country where childern in thar desert are dying even in winters.
A country where childern don't have their brains and bodies developed because of malnutrition.
A country where hapetitis b is so common and even aids is growing too.
In your mind, everything is fine as long as we are better then India or Bangladesh.
They too have the same problems like us, but is this the justification of our failure?
Atleast their states are working, pakistan is not working, it is at a stand still.
We have laws made by the English in 1800s, which we still apply in this modern world.
Our politicians never wanted to modernise our judicial system , our police and our goverence system , because they are the biggest beneficiaries of this corrupt system.
Everything is a mess. While people like you like to pretend all is well...
A person like you, who has not even seen Paris in movies, would eat donkey Biryani, dance in front of nawaz sherif jalsa and claim that Lahore is developed at par with Paris.
Forget about whole Pakistan, usually patwaris like you thinks that pakistan consists of Lahore city or maximum punjab province , forget about other provinces for a minute, even interior punjab is facing at least 5 to 6 hours of Loadshedding.
Even I have Loadshedding in posh areas of Lahore for an hour.
This is what the new government had done by building the expensive coal power plants.

Those who live in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones.
P. S I never said anything bad about kashmiris, I never can.


Amen Brother!!

Salaam and Respect!!

I salute your courage and honesty.

The whole subcontinent is in the same boat, despite chest thumping from various vested quarters.

You have a permanent longstanding dawat to my house in Dhaka anytime you want to visit. :-)

It is India's misfortune that we are surrounded by countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan and not countries like Korea and Japan.

Its sad that even though so much smaller than India they are still much poor, less industrialized and almost dysfunctional.

I think its the same garbage in the whole subcontinent.

This is Guwahati - a city in Assam, which is a state smaller and way less industrialized than Bangladesh.

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It boils down to energy. You need energy to purify water, treat sewage and pump water out of low lying areas
as solar energy gets cheaper you might be able to accomplish it
They took some good steps to promote solar energy like you won't get electricity if your building doesn't have solar panel to supply its power. But I don't think its energy issue, the whole system is mismanaged and corrupted. They build new sewage system now and after six months they broke the new one and build another to get some more money. A dictator running the country so she doesn't care about votes.
 
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They took some good steps to promote solar energy like you won't get electricity if your building doesn't have solar panel to supply its power. But I don't think its energy issue, the whole system is mismanaged and corrupted. They build new sewage system now and after six months they broke the new one and build another to get some more money. A dictator running the country so she doesn't care about votes.

you need other things. without cheap energy you cannot purify water, treat sewage and pump water out of low lying areas
 
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