On the edge

 Life in Dhaka has been dramatic during the last few weeks. 

There have been attacks against foreigners, shia muslims, secular writers, publishers, police officers. Among others.

New security measures are announced almost daily, police check-points grow up like mushrooms.

People are afraid of an invisible enemy. Nobody knows for sure if the attacks are co-ordinated and who are behind them.

Bangladesh is on the edge: either to continue with the thriving, dynamic development or to sink into a circle of violence and despair. 

I hope naturally for the first alternative. All bets for the Bangla resilience, people who work hard in order to give their children an education and a better future.

These are big issues. 

To balance, a small issue.

As a newcomer, I'm not quite used to the domestic fauna here. 

I am startled every time a see a lizard in our apartment. And they seem to outnumber me and my husband. They are also faster, more flexible and shrewder than the two of us together. 

They are useful since they vacuum clean mosquitoes and other insects but they lack hygienic training. 

But one gets used to everything - collecting lizard droppings has become a daily routine like brushing teeth.

Finally, a clarification. 

I write this blog as a private person though I am married to a diplomat who represents another nationality than I do. I have no agenda more than to share my newcomer thoughts and observations with eventual readers.