Rediscovering architect Louis I Kahn, along with his greatest work, the Dhaka Parliament building.
Close to noon, while I grope for colours to paint my Bangladesh, I look at a daily that habitually sells well with Boschian human deformities and negative news, and I
Dhaka basked resplendent under a blue sky as I emerged from the cavernous Zia International Airport. As a hardened Dilliwalah, I was preparing to fend off taxi drivers lunging for
Changing fashions on the streets of Dhaka
It should have come as no surprise that children die in such large numbers from injury. Fortunately, there is now recognition of the problem and a willingness to do something about it.
Monica Ali,
Brick Lane,
Doubleday,
London, 2003.
Naila Kabeer, The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women Workers and Labour Market Decisions,
Being taken captive with considerable hospitality by would-be émigrés, taking a boat ride up the swollen Ganga delta, and touring Dhaka's richest neighbourhood prove that travel in Bangladesh will be many things, but never a bore.
