As someone who has lived in Dhaka and Chattogram for a more or less equal number of years, I am here to tell you that the port city is much better than the capital. Admit it: Dhaka is overrated.
The WHO estimates that over five percent of the global population suffers from noise-related issues
Dhaka has had many names over the years — City of Rickshaws, City of Mosques, City of Magic, and many more. Perhaps, calling it ‘Mini-Bangladesh’ is not a misnomer either. People from every nook and cranny of the country come together in this place, and each brings something that makes it what it is today.
Dhaka has the highest number of active Facebook users available for advertisers
Dhaka faces frequent protests, causing disruptions, but lacks discourse on root causes.
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, has long been a vibrant cultural and economic hub. As one of the world’s largest megacities, it never sleeps, embracing millions from diverse backgrounds.
Each year, "Dhaka Makers" returns with the promise of celebrating Bangladesh’s rich artisanal heritage. This is our city’s grandest attempt at presenting a craft fair as the pinnacle of urban sophistication. This is not just any ordinary roadside haat where artisans sell their work at reasonable prices. It is an "experience" so refined, so exclusive, that one must pay Tk 300 just to step inside and breathe the artisanal air.
Bangladeshi rapper Black Zang and Indian singer Rai Harrie have collaborated on a new track titled “Mainstream”. The song, a combination of both Bangla and Punjabi lyrics, is known to be one of the milestones in music for both countries.
Out of 100, Dhaka scored 9.4 in the desirability factor – the lowest in the list – making it one of the least desirable student cities in the list.
London, once the centre of the empire where the sun never set, dates back to prehistory with evidence of structures from Mesolithic times.
A review of 'Dhaka Delirium,' a collection of essays by Adnan Z Morshed.
Dhanmondi these days is a cacophony of people, traffic, events, vendors, schools, hospitals, restaurants, and construction sites.
I visited the highest-rated waffle places that have been taking Dhaka’s foodgram by storm.
Do authorities care at all about citizens' quality of life?
Today, Dhaka is a dysfunctional megacity, an economic hub that has grown chaotically – outwards and upwards – to absorb more than 20 million people who live there, and hundreds of thousands more arriving each year.
There needs to be a push for a strong public library culture in Dhaka.
The only thing I like about this city is the thought of leaving it. And I was leaving it finally, after one and a half months, my longest stretch of stay in the last three years. Juggling my luggage with one hand and my phone with the other to get Google Maps directions while I balance myself on the rickshaw racing through bumpy Dhaka roads–it is a metaphor that sums up my life in this city.
Nadeem Zaman’s The Inheritors retells and recontextualizes one of the most famous stories there ever was—F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925).
Last week, one of Dhaka’s oldest bookstores announced that they will be closing shop after running for 60 years
