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Long Read

Long Read

A man makes way through fallen trees on the road from Munshiganj to Burigoalini after cyclone Bulbul hit the coastal area last month. People in the coastal area live in constant fear of cyclones as the newly restored embankments there look feeble in the face of mighty storms. Photo: Mumit M

Rising waves, incarcerated fishermen and vanishing villages

As world leaders scratch their heads about what to do to save the earth from the rushing climate change, Bangladesh suffers on several fronts.

The grand forefather of the domestic stock

The grand forefather of the domestic stock

Forest shower

Forest shower

50 years old Bosun (a senior crewman) Anis does not care a penny about wild sea. He is obsessed with the thoughts of his beloved daughters. All of them are eligible to get married. In the next sign off, he must make that arrangement. God knows whether he can manage that or not. I took this picture in a stormy weather on north Pacific and suddenly this big wave covered us within a few seconds.

The mariners

James Fosdike Illustrations for Foreign Policy

Mikhail Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut Thanksgiving miracle

Qantas Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. Photo: Getty Images via Bloomberg

I just took the world's first 20-hour flight. Here's what it did to me

Broken Innocence

Broken Innocence

Amazing stories of our girls

Amazing stories of our girls

People catching fish in the water mixed with liquid waste. During the rainy season, untreated solid and liquid wastes mix with the water as the site is in a flood flow zone.

Aminbazar's wasteland story

File Photo: Mahatma Gandhi/ Reuters

The Gandhi you know, the one you don’t

Reeta Barua, wife of Uttam Barua, emerges from the kitchen with a picture of her missing husband. Life inside this bare brick room confines her to a future that holds no promises. Photo: Mumit M/TBS

Ramu violence: In the shadow of what we don’t know

Fisherman pulling nets at the Meghna River near Haimchar in Chandpur. Photo: Mumit M

The song of hilsha catchers

Squeezed from all sides, a Rohingya boy stands a gloomy future as his generation is lost forever. Photo: Salahuddin Ahmed Paulash/TBS

Remains of the day