IN AN article titled 'Lifebuoy for each home in coastal areas' that I wrote in December 2007 after cyclone Sidr had hit the coastal areas of Barisal and Khulna, I gave an idea about how Palmyra trees could work miracles in sheltering our coastal people. Amazingly, I received dozens of messages from the readers from various corners of the world appreciating my inventive idea, though I myself was not a disaster management expert in any way. But the idea perhaps fell on the deaf ears of our policy makers.
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