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Back with a Bong!

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This one is one from the archives...but given that we love to hate this tiny neighbouring country that we created (esp after what they did to us in the World Cup), here's a piece from my mail archives on a rather unsavoury experience that I had on board the Bangla national airline (yes it does exist and yes it also flies) well for starters, i was booked on a biman- which for the uninitiated happens to be bangladesh's national airline.....now we know where half of their GDP goes, its in maintaining a fleet of two or maybe three aircraft.... well i entered dubai airport at 10pm for a 12.30 am flight.....hoping to have a real comfortable flight back home where i could catch at least thirty five winks if not forty.... after a detailed search on google and every other search engine possible, including some hostile Arabs, i discovered where the check-in line for Biman was....thank god....well i said it too early... it took me an hour and 45 minutes to get that piece of cardboard c