Banglaphile

"Medium" income allows a household a life of no physical deprivation but relatively few frills. Their children usually go to not quite the best schools, and the whole family is likely to be less westernised, perhaps even aggressively "Banglaphile" in dress, manners, and artistic tastes.

Novak, who has been visiting Bangladesh for more than 20 years and who was the Asia Foundation's representative there in the early 1980s, is an acknowledged Banglaphile.

Heavy Banglaphiles can also check out these unofficial […]

For Grass, a renowned Banglaphile, hope is personified in a Bengali who is in the cycle rickshaw business, a man free from “nationalistic narrowness.”

It opens up a vast storehouse of information on the Bangalees and Banglaphiles at home and around the world