[Reader-list] India fumes, Bangladesh Taj

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Shambhu
 
Absolutely delightful video on Smart Stitch.
 
Woman on beach recliner using the Smart Stitch. 
 
Ashraf Karim, President Tripura Textile Company saying that:
 
- Smart Stitch has increased productivity in his sweatshops even more than chaining workers to their machines. The productivity 'graph' compares that from Smart Stich use to 'Food Deprivation', 'Whipping' and "Chaining Workers to Machines"
 
- It used to make him very angry when workers went home for the night. But now that the workers use Smart Stitch, their whole lives belong to him. He feels like GOD
 
Ritu Ahmed, an 'early adopter' of the Smart Stitch saying in it's praise that:
 
- Smart Stitch allows her to work 22 hours in a day instead of just 16
 
- She can now keep sewing until she passes out from exhaustion
 
Kshmendra

--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Shambhu Rahmat <shambhu.rahmat at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Shambhu Rahmat <shambhu.rahmat at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] India fumes, Bangladesh Taj
To: reader-list at sarai.net
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 3:19 PM

Weird thing is, is it a hoax? I had never heard of this until it
surfaced in BBC this week. Just wondering how such a huge project
could have happened and nobody in Bangladesh has heard of it. I have
been in the neighboring area recently, and surely someone would have
told me to go check it out.

Remember that whole brouhaha about Amitav Bacchan starring in a movie
about Sheikh Mujib. Also turned out to be untrue, although there was a
grain of truth-- Gaffar Chowdhury had said he had talked to Amitav.
>From there it became "to star".

Next they'll be reporting this story as "true"
http://unheardvoice.net/blog/2008/12/11/onion-goes-bangladesh/


> From: Rana Dasgupta <rana at ranadasgupta.com>
> India's embassy in Bangladesh on Wednesday voiced its displeasure over
a
> life-size copy of the Taj Mahal, saying it would investigate to see if
> any copyright laws had been breached.
>
> "You can't just go and copy historical monuments," fumed a
spokesman at
> the Indian High Commission in Dhaka.
>
> "Someone will go out there and have a look. The reports we are
reading
> say it is an exact replica. This is a protected site we are talking
> about so we need to find out if it really is the exact size," he told
AFP.
>
> Bangladeshi film director Ahsanullah Moni unveiled his $ 58 million
> replica, located about 30 kilometres (20 miles) northeast of the
> Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, this week.
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