In Bangladesh, praise is treated like public money: everyone agrees it should circulate, but nobody wants to release it. Tell a colleague he did well, and someone will demand an audit. Compliment a bridge and another citizen will ask which political party issued your membership card. We are generous with criticism, stingy with gratitude and quick to suspicion.

Two neighbours went to a village elder with a dispute. After hearing the first man, the elder said, “You are right”.

Robi now has to give answer to Mahtab's lawsuit