Raffat Binte Rashid

For some, the battery-run vehicles are a time-efficient and cost-effective blessing; for others, they are a dangerous disruption to the already precarious traffic system.

Who is crazy enough to go window shopping at this time of the year? I mean during the month of Ramadan, and that too in a cosmopolitan like Dhaka.

Iris Apfel was one of my favourite celebrities. Apfel was an American textile expert and interior designer by profession.

Dr Asha Islam Nayeem, a professor in the Department of History at the Dhaka University, has a heart-wrenching story.

I heard a friend say that no matter where she goes shopping, be it on 5th Avenue in New York, in old Delhi, or even at Chatuchak Weekend Market in Bangkok, nothing beats the pleasure she finds shopping in Dhaka’s shopping districts: Chandni Chawk, Hawker’s, and New Market.

The history of Dhaka is as fluid and majestic as the rivers that surround it. Over the centuries, the city’s course has shifted, evolving with each new civilisation that passed through, leaving behind traces of their cultures in its soil.

It all began with a surprise addition to lunch -- long bean mash.

Prejudice, misogyny and hatred seems to increase in the streets of Dhaka.