Hi Brendan and everyone. Yes, I'm still with you, but I just got back tonight (two hours ago) from trapsing around North America for a few weeks. I do find this issue on borders and tourism in India and Pakistan and Bangladesh very interesting.
Now, here's a cheap and selfish plug. My most recent book was just published two weeks ago. If any of you are interested here's the information:
Timothy, D.J. 2001. Tourism and Political Boundaries. London: Routledge.
Unfortunately, it's a $90 book (I had no input into the price!!), so I don't think many of you will be able to buy it, but I would encourage you to ask your local and university libraries to buy it!!
Best wishes everyone,
Dallen
-----Original Message-----
From: Brendan Whyte [mailto:brwhyte@...]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 9:15 PM
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] IndPak & IndBang & tourism
Particularly for Dallen if he's still with us:
For a nice photo of two ceremonial border guards at the border crossing of
India-Pakistan, and a description of the tourist spectacle lowering of the
flags there each night, see Time, 1 Sept 1997, pp37-41, an article by Maseeh
Rahman, titled "Separated at birth". Another photo is of an Indian border
guard leaning out of his watchtower in the evening, with the barbed wirte
fence, border road and fence lights in the background. A third shot is of
the crowd who arrive to gawp at the "other" across the one border crossing
between the two vcountries. Also described is the death of a man on the
fence wire. It is electrified, and during a blackout he tried to crawl
across, but the backup generators came on and he fried.
Total cost of the fence : US$85,000 per km, two 3m high barbed wire fences
with concertina wire (razor wire??) in between. 5 electric wires at
different hieghts, and sodium vapur lamps.
At border pillar 2033 in Tripura, Nazir Rahman Bhutia's home is divided by
the Indo-Bangladesh boundary, which the Indians also want to fence. The BSF
(Border Security Force) want to reove all within 500m of the boundary in
order to fence it, as the fence must be 150m behind the zero line.
BW
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