Bangladesh at 50: Why climate change could destroy my ancestral home
As Bangladesh turns 50, a UK-Bangladeshi reflects on how climate change affects his parent’s country. …
My mum, Ratna, and I talked about this story as we were going through some old photos, which captured 90s fashion, bad haircuts and our land – “a sea of green” – as she describes it. “Your dad dreams of us retiring there, but that won’t happen,” my mum says. “You, however, need to know what we have there, because that’s your inheritance.”