0bd3230446f86f380e092924_jk58.jpg Jon Krause

Grameen vs. Bangladesh

In Bangladesh's feud between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Mohammed Yunus, the founder of the microloan-making Grameen Bank, Yunus, with help from the US, is being portrayed as a victim of political persecution. But the truth is considerably more complicated.

HONG KONGThe feud in Bangladesh between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Mohammed Yunus, the founder of the microloan-making Grameen Bank and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is being portrayed as a modern-day replay of the famous battle between the wicked Kauravas and the virtuous Pandavas in the Indian epic, the Mahabharata.

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