The Economist writes, “t this one (government) does not collapse before the generals manage t orderly transition.”
“I EXPECT to stay here for two to three weeks,” says Mahmuda Khatun, a young, destitute mother of four, siting on a narrow embankment in Sirajganj district, jam-packed with thousands of people, taking refuge from the rising waters of the Brahmaputra. A few kilometres upstream, the district town may disappear in the 12km-wide (7.5 miles) river. When Mahmuda was born, she says, the river flowed 15km east of the town. [Read more]