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Dawn, ‘Bangladesh uses ‘sacred Arabic’ to stop peeing in public’
dhaka: For years authorities in Bangladesh have battled to stop men urinating in public, with signs in the local Bengali language failing to halt the seemingly endless number of offenders.
But the Bangladesh religious affairs ministry’s recent decision to erect new signs in Arabic has had a marked effect, despite most Bangladeshis being unable to read the language.
References
Dawn, ‘Bangladesh uses ‘sacred Arabic’ to stop peeing in public’, Dawn (2015). |