The neighborhood of Hazaribagh runs along the bank of the Buriganga River as it flows through Dhaka,
The neighborhood of Hazaribagh runs along the bank of the Buriganga River as it flows through Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Its name means “a thousand gardens” in Urdu, but you won’t see much green. Instead, the streets are lined with mounds and mounds of leather. Hazaribagh is home to the country’s $1 billion tanning industry, a place where thousands work in the factories and chemicals makes the river slick and shiny.READ MORE: Inside Bangladesh’s polluted, billion-dollar leather industry. -- source link
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