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Letter from Kushtia: Getting a rock star’s view into Bangladesh

It’s not every day that your fixer is a rock star. So when I asked Sina Hasan, lead vocalist of Bangla Five and local reporting partner extraordinaire, where we could do a quick overnight during a Monitor reporting trip in Bangladesh and he recommended Kushtia, I didn’t question it.

I’d never heard of Kushtia, but that’s not saying much. Bangladesh is barely on the tourist map. And for the travelers who do come here, they tend to tread a well-worn

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