HOW 2 LIVE IN DHAKA
To me, hearing people around me going “How does one live in this city?” results in the same facial expression as “How are you?” An involuntary raising of eyebrows followed by a fake smile.
It's one of those questions worth two hours of deep contemplation. You can either choose to go monosyllable with the response or end up in a gol tebil boithok discussing about chikungunya and the weather hopping between Aquaman's rage and Superman's heat vision. It is a matter of wonder how the city can – at a single point of time – become Venice around Bashundhara and the Grand Canyon in Mirpur. But all in the name of development, right?
Like days and nights, we go by.
– Kazi Akib Bin Asad, Sub-editor, SHOUT
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