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By any reasonable measure, Rashed Chowdhury grew up too fast. At age 12, the young boy came to accept that he would be on his own for life. Raised by a strict and tightfisted father, Rashed walked barefoot miles to school, frequently donning the same attire he had worn yesterday, last week, and the month before. Nor was he ever fortunate enough to receive a complete set of textbooks. Even his paternal love for him was in short supply. Abandoned by his family, he had no money even to take a bus ride to college. "I will chart my future without support from him," Rashed vowed, hinting at his...

When a brutal military regime commits one of the worst genocides in history against its own people, a loyal soldier turns rebel to avenge the deaths of those innocent millions of his community. He makes a daredevil escape through own deployments, reaches the "other side" and trains the guns on the very killers he once swore to serve. After months of bloody war, the soldier and his fellow fighters win victory. Bangladesh is born. That soldier, an army captain, fulfills a debt to his people. He tells his story in A Soldier's Debt. A Soldier's Debt is an emotion packed personal account of...

This book explores the feasibility of using El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-based forecasts and early warning systems to prevent losses from floods and droughts in Bangladesh. Despite advances in short-range flood forecasting and information dissemination systems in Bangladesh, the present system is less than satisfactory. This is due to short lead-time products, outdated dissemination networks, and lack of direct feedback from the end-user. One viable solution is to produce long-lead seasonal forecasts—the demand for which is significantly increasing in Bangladesh— and disseminate...