Last week this message was posted on the town’s blog site, www.visitbadin.com. “Wow its nice to see Badin city. I am amazed to see development in this area. But in our city Badin in Sindh Pakistan, there are no such infrastructures and facilities. Both cities have same names but their fate is totally change.”

Badin, NC’s fate is ‘totally change’ from its early years, but this message brings home how lucky we are in this land of relative plenty. Research finds Badin, Pakistan has little more than swamps and rice paddies and has no drinkable water. Even so, one of their citizens can communicate with the world. A strange kind of progress.

Bridget Huckabee, Editor