A Social Vision for Dhaka’s Housing
The promise of shelter is broken in plain sight
20 June 2025, 18:00 PM
Writing the Padma
The first experience of the great river Padma is nothing less than overwhelming, and slightly terrifying. I first came to face the mighty river as a young lad in my teens sometime in April of the momentous year of 1971. My first sighting came with two terrors. My father was fleeing Dhaka with the family with the hope of crossing the river to escape the brutal onslaught of the Pakistan army. Arriving at the banks, there was the Padda (Padma) before us with its glorious panorama. It seemed like an oceanic river, with no sight of the other side, and the frightening prospect of crossing it.
1 June 2025, 18:00 PM
Ecological thinking in Prof Razzaq’s ‘State of the Nation’
Since the 1960s, Prof Abdur Razzaq wielded considerable influence on the academic and literati circle of his time,.
23 February 2025, 02:10 AM
Dhaka is an island
Claiming that Dhaka is an island is an earnest call for an ecological and nature-oriented restoration of the city, and to experience.
22 December 2024, 07:00 AM
The biggest wetland in Dhaka nobody knows about
Before the construction of the beribadh in the early 1990s, the nameless water body was part of the overflow zone of the Turag River.
22 September 2024, 01:30 AM
Dhaka, an inequal city
It is no wonder that a vast population of Dhaka are generally disgruntled with where they are.
2 September 2024, 04:00 AM
Death of an architecture
Mir Mosharraf Hossain Hall should be retained and restored.
30 March 2024, 04:00 AM
The future of the city, the city of the future
The city is perhaps the greatest innovation carried out by humans. Although nature has been used as an analogy in conceiving the fabric of the city, there is no such thing as the “city” in nature.
19 February 2024, 18:00 PM
A Social Vision for Dhaka’s Housing
The promise of shelter is broken in plain sight
20 June 2025, 18:00 PM
Writing the Padma
The first experience of the great river Padma is nothing less than overwhelming, and slightly terrifying. I first came to face the mighty river as a young lad in my teens sometime in April of the momentous year of 1971. My first sighting came with two terrors. My father was fleeing Dhaka with the family with the hope of crossing the river to escape the brutal onslaught of the Pakistan army. Arriving at the banks, there was the Padda (Padma) before us with its glorious panorama. It seemed like an oceanic river, with no sight of the other side, and the frightening prospect of crossing it.
1 June 2025, 18:00 PM
Ecological thinking in Prof Razzaq’s ‘State of the Nation’
Since the 1960s, Prof Abdur Razzaq wielded considerable influence on the academic and literati circle of his time,.
23 February 2025, 02:10 AM
Dhaka is an island
Claiming that Dhaka is an island is an earnest call for an ecological and nature-oriented restoration of the city, and to experience.
22 December 2024, 07:00 AM
The biggest wetland in Dhaka nobody knows about
Before the construction of the beribadh in the early 1990s, the nameless water body was part of the overflow zone of the Turag River.
22 September 2024, 01:30 AM
Dhaka, an inequal city
It is no wonder that a vast population of Dhaka are generally disgruntled with where they are.
2 September 2024, 04:00 AM
Death of an architecture
Mir Mosharraf Hossain Hall should be retained and restored.
30 March 2024, 04:00 AM
The future of the city, the city of the future
The city is perhaps the greatest innovation carried out by humans. Although nature has been used as an analogy in conceiving the fabric of the city, there is no such thing as the “city” in nature.
19 February 2024, 18:00 PM
Muzharul Islam: A ‘vastukalabid’ for modern Bengal
Described as the doyen of Bangladesh’s architecture, Muzharul Islam introduced modernism in the country as well as the highest ideals of the craft.
25 December 2023, 11:30 AM
A Dhaka we’ll want to arrive at
The city, the one that we want to arrive at, remains illusory
31 October 2023, 03:00 AM
The city is a beautiful thing when it’s for everyone
A city is a web of facilities and opportunities in which different agencies and communities lay stakes, push boundaries, and make bullish claims of making things better.
23 June 2023, 15:00 PM
Crossing the Padma
Here was a river that was larger than life, larger than anything I had encountered before. Flowing gloriously and indifferently, the river presented a mythic scale against which I felt terribly puny.
23 December 2022, 18:00 PM
The Detailed Area Plan for Dhaka is almost alright
One striking aspect of the DAP document is the geographical scope of Rajuk, in how it signals an expanded Dhaka.
24 November 2022, 17:00 PM
Who is afraid of DAP?
The Detailed Area Plan (DAP) for 2022-2035, produced by Rajuk, is a radical and innovative document in the planning history of Dhaka.
6 October 2022, 14:00 PM
Metrophilia: How to Love Dhaka
If you want to fall in love with the city—walk. This simple aphorism opens up a full discourse on how we can make our cities liveable and civic, and how we might live together as a collective.
9 July 2022, 12:00 PM
Dhaka needs new urban-forms
If the city is the new challenge of the time, the “edge” of the city is at the heart of it.
30 October 2021, 18:00 PM
120th birth anniversary of Architect Louis I. Kahn
February 20 was the 120th birth anniversary of the famed American architect Louis I. Kahn whose monumental architectural creation is the National Assembly (Sangsad Bhaban) of Bangladesh.
28 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Louis Kahn's Capital Complexity
The National Capital Complex in Dhaka, designed by Louis Kahn, is an epic work in the annals of modern architecture. Even after sixty years of its conception, Kahn’s complex remains a wondrous phenomenon that is continuously renewing the purposes of architecture.
28 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Future cities: A short guide to a Bengali urbanism
When al-Mansur laid the foundation of Baghdad in 762 on the banks of the Tigris, he imagined an ideal city in the shape of a round plan.
18 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Imagining a Dhaka for 2035
No one doubts the magnitude of complexity that shrouds Dhaka, this city of 16 million poised between being the worst liveable and an economic colossus.
13 December 2020, 18:00 PM