In my years in Bangladesh, where I wrote a weekly feature for the Star Weekend Magazine, the editor gave me free rein. My articles ranged from social observation to polemic and sometimes more personal pieces like this one about insomnia.…
In this piece I take a look at the comical, illogical and sometimes infuriating aspects of driving in Dhaka. In a myriad articles, I set out to be affectionate, curious, comic, controversial, but always infused with respect and love for this astonishing country…
It’s a promising start. The social science teacher enters the class bearing two large drawings. One portrays a parental couple with their two children. The second shows the same family, with two grandparents and a few other adults, perhaps aunties…
You could easily spend years in this city and not even know of its existence. Hidden away in the triangle formed by upmarket Banani and Gulshan, and bustling Mohakhali, a stone’s throw but also a universe away from the villas…