The city of Barisal in the south of Bangladesh, on the flood plain of the Bay of Bengal, reveals in microcosm the injuries inflicted on the poor and dispossessed of the world by imperialism, colonial expropriation and globalism. The loss of peasant land to the Meghna, exacerbated by corruption, greed and outright theft, has driven many to eking out the most marginal living in this poorest of cities or migrating onwards to the grim brickfields and garment factories of Dhaka.
