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Cover Story

The Death of Dhaka's
Posh Spots

Dhaka's so-called "posh", "residential" areas have
and continue to become anything but that. Dhanmondi,
Gulshan, Banani, Baridhara -- places where half the
city travels to every morning, to work in banks and
restaurants, shops and garment factories.
Quaint independent houses have been turned to high
rise apartment buildings, sacrificing the beautiful gardens.
Lanes are now thoroughfares where cars honk rudely and
create traffic jams. Roads are pot-holed, muddy and smell
of rotting garbage left in heaps in corners. Avenues of
elegance have been turned into lines of commercial
establishments from banks to schools to clinics.
So what happened to the best neighbourhoods of Dhaka?