Bangla Revisited

27/07/2025

Boat carrying 20 Myanmar nationals stranded on St. Martin’s Island due to storm

Nirinsha, July 27/2025

"A boat carrying about 20 Muslims from Myanmar has stranded on St. Martin’s Island (also known as Ohnkyun in Rakhine) in Bangladesh due to a storm, local Bangladeshi news outlets reported.

"The 20 people on board the boat, 16 men, 3 women and 1 child, arrived on Friday, July 25.

"Sheikh Ehsan, the administrative officer of Teknak (also known as Kayu Chaung in Rakhine), confirmed the arrival and said they would be sent back to Myanmar if the weather conditions improve.

"A resident of St. Martin’s Island said their boat had been stranded on the northern side of the island due to strong waves on Friday morning and that they were currently being taken to a camp by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).

"The news does not say where in Myanmar they are from, nor does it say where they are headed." h/t Ziabul Hossain

06/07/2025

(2025) “Covid Transmission rates are rising. We’ve identified several new sub-variants..."

In light of the recent surge in Covid-19 infections in various countries and the emergence of a new sub-variant of the virus, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Wednesday issued 11-point directives to contain the spread of the virus across the country....

01/03/2024

Sound Design from 2007: Taka Tales from Narikel Jingira Island, Bangladesh
(Art Exhibition with Installed Audio, Tea and free Taka Tunes CDs)

flyer: http://bbrace.net/two-taka-tunes-podcast/taka-tunes.jpg

complete recordings sometimes playing now:
http://69.64.225.198:8000 (offline)

mp3 podcast materials:
http://bbrace.net/two-taka-tunes-podcast/two-taka-tunes-podcast.html

Scene: extensive, evocative audio field-recordings from a concrete
Bangladeshi guesthouse looking back on a thatched bamboo village by the Bay of Bengal, with an exhibit of particularly well-used, framed two-taka banknotes.

https://audioboo.fm/boos/195103-taka-tunes
bbs: brad brace sound: offline
http://69.64.225.198:8000
Global Islands Project:
http://bradbrace.net/id.html
http://bbrace.net/id.html

http://bbrace.net/islands/island4/island4-1.html
http://bradbrace.net/islands/island4/island4-1.html

LOSS -- a collection of especially well-worn 2-Taka banknotes from my brief stay... (they also appear usually framed and mounted, in the Taka-Tunes audio installation)

http://amazon.com/dp/B07RWC8VG3

Saint Martin Island (Bengali: সেন্টমার্টিন দ্বীপ) is a small island (area only 3 km2) in the northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal, about 9 km south of the tip of the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf peninsula, and forming the southernmost part of Bangladesh. There is a small adjoining island that is separated at high tide, called Chera Dwip. It is about 8 kilometres (5 miles) west of the northwest coast of Myanmar, at the mouth of the Naf River. Local names of the island are "Narikel Jinjira"[4] which means "Coconut Island", and "Daruchini Dwip" which means "Cinnamon Island". It is the only coral island in Bangladesh. Most of the island's approximately 3,700[5] inhabitants live primarily from fishing. The other staple crops are rice and coconut. Being very common on the island, algae are collected, dried, and exported to Myanmar. Between October and April, the fishermen from neighboring areas bring their caught fishes to the island's temporary wholesale market. However, imports of chicken, meat and other foods come in from the mainland Bangladesh and Myanmar. As the centre and the south are mainly farmland and makeshift huts, most of the permanent structures are around the far north.

Bangladesh is the most densely populated country I've encountered. There were many gregarious folks everywhere I turned and I had a lot of help touring the country and getting to and from my Island 4.0. Having made the initial Global Islands Book, I realized that I had several hundreds of extraneous worthwhile images that I've just copied onto SD cards after some global color corrections (I've made probably enough photobooks, and squeezing them all along with the GIP book onto a micro SD card seemed ok. Perhaps they could be handed-out along with the Taka-Tunes teashop installation somewhere? Distribution/circulation of the work is always an issue. So, there's a fascination with lavishly decorated bicycles, the sheer number of people -- on the world's longest beach (sadly now one of biggest refugee camps), a Hindu festival, a Dhaka garment-district fire, a little of the deconstruction--shipyards, but mostly just the everyday and the wonderful open people. You probably know there's no word for 'thank-you' in the Bangla language but send some money my way and I'll see it gets where it will do some good.

Bangla Revisited (Global Islands Project) brad brace 2006-7
additional imagery from my Global Islands Project: Island 4.0 Narikel Jinjira and Bangladesh 2006-7
extraneous imagery primarily from my stay on Narikel Jinjira Island (near Burma) in 2006-7 as well as the journey to/from Dhaka, Bangladesh
http://bbrace.net/islands/island4/island4-1.html
http://bradbrace.net/islands/island4/island4-1.html
bradbracebook.store
http://bbrace.net/islands/island4/island4-1.html
http://bradbrace.net/islands/island4/island4-1.html (bradbrace domain restricted temporarily)

01/03/2024

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