"...But this brilliant period in the history of the city came to a sudden end. At the whim of a viceroy it had risen. …"

"The city is the largest in Bengal, and it manufactures cotton and silk the best and cheapest. The plenty and cheapnes…"

"In Dhaka, Muslims have started riots with the complicity of the police. They attacked the houses of the Hindus, raped…"

"Dacca is a tropical, impoverished, polluted, and verdant river city, in the middle of the great part-submerged marsh …"

"Dhaka, once known as a city of mosques or the Venice of the east, will soon become a city of shopping malls—a shapele…"

"The great Buddhist monk and scholar, Atsa, who went to Tibet in AD 1308 to preach Buddhism, ; came from the Dhaka are…"

"Akhaura is about five or six miles away from Agartala. I had a great desire for a long time to see Agartala, the capi…"

"Islamabad, “the city of Islam,” the capital of Pakistan, was new. It had been built about twenty years before by a mi…"

"Warschau wird glattrasiert."

"’Twas a night to make the bravest Shrink from the tempest’s breath, For the winter snows were bitter, And the winds w…"