The Gateway


In the right, it's The Dhaka Gate, the gateway Dhaka City built during the Mughal Dynasty. I bet most of us don't even know where it is situated!
And below, it is the famous Gateway of India, known and recognized world wide.
But The Dhaka Gate was built long before the Gateway of India and is more valuable in historical terms. But look how we are savoring it.
With posters and wires!
And how Indians have kept theirs'!!
Hail Bangladeshis!!!
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A sneak-peek to the future


I took this photo of the cartoon from the "Desh TV- UNMAD Cartoon Exhibition" last year.
It seemed so true to me that time.
Can you picture Bangladesh at 2020 with anything better than this? The way we are wasting our resources and damaging the environment, it looks so perfect for us!
Now, it's time for us to decide, what do we want?
A life with an oxygen mask or even the last breath with some pure oxygen?
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Bills For Billboards


I am again lending from newspapers. This one is from The Star Magazine. This news is quite forgotten now. A billboard fell over a man at Gulshan and he died. But I can't still get over the horror.
I walk on the roads watching up straight, looking for any falling bill boards to hit me!
I just want to ask those house-owners that why did they gave permissions for such heavy things to stand over their buildings? For a certain amount of money? A billboard can turn the whole building down too!
Is life and a property of a life-time cheaper than only a few bucks?
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The Ray of Light: Episode 2


In my last post on street lights, I pointed out the reason of not having lights at street.
Now, in this post, I am trying to find (!) out the reasons of lighting in the day time!
I don't know how the system runs, but I didn't find any necessity to lit street lights that time as it was only early afternoon!
Do you suggest me a good explanation for that?
Or it's another lacking of Sense and... you know!!
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Lost Sense and Sensibility!



I have written so many things in the picture. But again, I just think we are losing our sense and sensibility everyday. We just don't pay heed to anything, ANYTHING!
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Road Hackers



It's not actually a new phenomena for the Dhaka-dwellers. Any under construction building could be found with cement, rods and other materials scattered in the adjoining road.
It's too common to even question on. Building owners and contractors behave the way that they also paid for the Government roads to use as a storage.
These materials are never put away until the whole work is done.
Passers-by now don't even curse them!
It is normal now.
Like every thing else in this "Shob-Shomvober Desh!"
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In search of a "Fixed Place"!


All the garbage-taking pickups have these words written in them. But where is a place to dump our garbage exactly?
It had places in the past, but what about now?
Do any of you see any dust-bins anywhere?
Perhaps the whole city has become one!
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Love for FOOD!



We love food. And as LOVE is BLIND, we are too when it comes to FOOD!
We buy food from posh restaurants to street side Tongs!
We love to eat, but don't care what we EAT!
You, me and everyone else have bought foods from filthy places like this one.
But the only questions is, is that really necessary?
Is that the best alternative to your hard earned money and to save your energy and time?
Is it? Really?
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Safety First!


Who says we are aware of our road safety? Who accuses us for not wearing helmets while riding a bike? Now all of them can be silenced!
You may assume from the picture that this guy was in a hurry and just got in and will be out soon. But no, he sat there with the meal and ate it. If I had not seen it myself, I wound not believe how safety concern we have become!!!
I would not have been writing this blog only if his wife had a helmet to wear too!
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A gift to nature



They say that, nature is the best gift to mankind. That's all we certainly know.
And we are generous too. So, we give the favor back to nature.
Brick-burning towers are a great threat to nature. But we are continuously burning it on.
When a gift is taken, it becomes our own. If the nature is tormented this way. it will fall down soon, so we will!
Isn't that gift being too costly for us?
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I am the KING of the world!!



Bus Service in Dhaka can merely be called something "Good" or "Satisfactory"! Let's talk about it later! But the thing I am talking about is the people riding those.
The way our drivers drive through out the roads, it's really a miracle if we get there safe and sound. In such an worsen situation, we also like to add some features.
Like this one, we like to sit comfortably to "Enjoy" the ride.
I don't know if we think about the enjoyment after the fracture in the elbow or not!
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Living "Under Construction"


Dhaka is having an edifice every now and then! For residential or commercial, every purpose may fit in. But the increasing number of high-rise buildings are on. And funnily, they are never left empty.
Like the one in the picture, many buildings, which are yet to be completed, have residents! I don't know who should I blame, the authority or the residents?
Aren't they aware of the risks and their property values? Or they just don't care like everything else?
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Hssshhh! Don't Tell Your History!



If I don't tell you the place, you may take a heck lot of time to figure it out! This is the Mosque of Shahidullah Hall, DU. People still use it. But I bet no one knows its historical value!
Well, I am not going to discuss about our negligence and irresponsible behavior towards our valuable historical possessions. Just wanted to point out how rude we are to not even name this Mosque with its original one! Why? Because we lost it!!!
Feeling embarrassed? We better be!
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Home, Sweet "Street" Home!



It is now too common for us to find so many people living in the foot path in the shanty.
It is not at all temporary now, they seem to live here permanently. Neither the dwellers nor the authority have headache regarding this.
Specially the residential areas of middle class people are the main points they capture.
If they live in the pavements, then what will people use to walk? Plus they pollute the area greatly and often snatch things from passers-by.
Can't we even walk in the street normally?
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Wire it Out!



While passing by the roads, anyone can notice the wires and cables of various purposes (mainly of electricity) are coiled together. Hundreds of these almost-same-looking wires are very important and necessary ones for our everyday works. But is it a decent way to hang these essential wires and cables like this everywhere? And what about the risks?
Or is it an acceptable picture for a 40 year old metropolitan city like Dhaka?
These wires are like the veins of the city. Like the veins, they carry the power element to the remotest corner. And when they are out, the body looks odd and soon it dies too!
So, it's better to keep them inside from every aspect.
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A River full of Rubbishes



This is a River surrounding Dhaka at Aminbaazar. I crossed this road a few months ago while my trip to Jahangirnagar University. That time its water was fresh and soothing to eyes.
But my last weeks' visit surprised me terribly when I found this water incredibly polluted and black with a disgusting stink. Besides, the process of dredging sand from the river is greatly increased. I don't think this river will survive very long!
How long will we take to KILL all our rivers and then Kill ourselves?
Which one is the next?
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The color of “SMOKE”



The color of smoke is dark. But the color of smoke filled with CO2 is darker than anything. It has the darkness of death and environmental hazards!

Dhaka is already listed as one of the most polluted city in the world. It produces a great deal of CO2 to the nature that can bring death to us!

I am not talking about other options. But at least we can convert our vehicles to CNG supported ones. This would be the least to do for the sake of reducing air and environment pollution.

Can’t we have this highly needed sense to save our lives and our future generations as well as the whole country?

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Loving the nation, using its assets!



We have a country, an independent one. Its every single place is our own. We have achieved it. So is the “Shangshad Bhaban” area.

Our one good nature is that we never obey sign-boards. We never. So what the place is a highly classified one? We have every right to go their, sit, eat peanuts and throw the shells in the water and hang out. To hell with a stupid sign-board!

We can do these. Because, there is nobody to stop us. Those people are violating their rules also!

So, keep enjoying.
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“Women Power”


Women have equal rights to men. They are independent and can do everything for their own sake. They are often harassed and insulted in the society for minor reasons.But they most of the times try to hide it and never strive for justice. They feel shy to claim their own rights and the society remains repulsive to them.

Here, we have “Struggling” women for the rights. But not for their own ones. Can we imagine the picture when women were so revolting when the society or its people tried violating their rights? Is their any picture like that also?



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“You just died, Nothing else happened!”




What happened actually? Nothing! Just those, few people die every day. Why so shouting? Don’t you know that man is mortal? We all have to die one day.

What else? Some innocent girls got rapped? That’s their destiny perhaps! **Sigh** Poor girls!

What? People are hijacked every now and then? So what? Did you have any hijacking? No? Then why are you screaming?

My Poor conscience! Get real! Don’t be an emotional fool. Whatever happened, you are still alive, nay?

Keep running, until you are dead.
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Valobasha, Tarpor?



When I read the news, I was stuck for few moments. Is it the true picture of so called “Love” in our society?
Celebrating Valentine’s Day is definitely an adoption of western culture. But did we really get the point of doing it? Or we just lost whatever respect we had for such a sacred bond?
Since then I have a curiosity in my mind. I just want to know, if this relationship of these two people in the picture is still alive or not. I can bet that they are still going well. I don’t know why. But all my senses say so.
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***The Ray of Light***




I just found these two lamp-posts on my way. It is really amazing that the option of stealing the cut-outs of these lamps is so easy!! There is no protection. Or should I say there is no “Headache”?

We all know if the roads are dark in the night; it is really easy to hijack or do any crime without any difficulties!

When will we have the ray of light? The light of sense, sensibility and live a safer life???


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The "Wallpaper"


It takes huge money to paint the street walls. And we have many other important lacking in our economic lives to spend money on. On the other hand, there should be places to paste posters to promote our works. After all it is the sign of progression and propaganda. So let's join these two causes together. But how?
Like in the picture, it is a great idea to cover the walls with posters which saves the extra money for paint and also displays our works to people. This is what I call "Ek dhile dui pakhi mara".
So, we all should be logical and saver like this to make our country a better one!!!!
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