Living Dhaka Leaving Dhaka
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Living Dhaka Leaving Dhaka
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Author : Mehnaaz Momen
language : en
Publisher: Jagriti Prokashoni
Release Date : 2022-03-08
Living Dhaka Leaving Dhaka written by Mehnaaz Momen and has been published by Jagriti Prokashoni this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-08 with categories.
This is the story of a girl growing up in Bangladesh during the turbulent post-liberation period, a time of enormous transition, as the country went through numerous social experiments ranging from socialism to capitalism, secularism to religious fundamentalism, and class hierarchy to upward mobility. It brings to life an increasingly forgotten perspective about what it feels like to grow up as a girl in a traditional society. Through the prisms of love, pain, and nostalgia, what emerges is the picture of a city where harmony, difference, and intellectual possibility prevailed side by side, allowing the people of Dhaka to weave together the kind of life they each favored as individuals.
Leaving The Improved For Betterment
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Taj
Release Date : 2014-03-21
Leaving The Improved For Betterment written by and has been published by Taj this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-21 with categories.
The Book Of Dhaka
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Author : Wasi Ahmed
language : en
Publisher: Comma Press
Release Date : 2016-09-29
The Book Of Dhaka written by Wasi Ahmed and has been published by Comma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-29 with Fiction categories.
Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world - noisy, grid-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with sprawling slums - but, as these stories show, it is also one of the most colourful and chaotically joyful places you could possibly call home. Slum kids and film stars, day-dreaming rich boys, gangsters and former freedom fighters all rub shoulders in these streets, often with Dhaka's famous rickshaws ferrying them to and fro across cultural, economic and ethnic divides. Just like Dhaka itself, these stories thrive on the rich interplay between folk culture and high art; they both cherish and lampoon the city's great tradition of political protest, and they pay tribute to a nation that was borne out of a love of language, one language in particular, Bangla (from which all these stories have been translated).
Beloved Strangers
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Author : Maria Chaudhuri
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-01-16
Beloved Strangers written by Maria Chaudhuri and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A bright and brilliant new voice from Bangladesh 'Moving, lyrical and curious – this memoir effortlessly captures the disorientating feeling of growing up in a world that misunderstands you' Red On and on we dream, we wish, we love - no matter that the dreams come to an end, the wishes evolve or that love dissipates like dust in the wind. Perhaps, what matters only is that we have lived long enough to dream, hard enough to wish and indisputably enough to love. One of Maria's early memories growing up in Dhaka is of planning to run away with her friend Nadia. Even then, Maria couldn't quite figure out why she longed to escape. It is not that home is an unhappy place. It's just that in her family, joy is ephemeral. With a mother who yearns for the mountains, the solitude and freedom to pursue her own dreams and career, and a charismatic but distant father who finds it difficult to expresses emotion, they are never able to hold on to happiness for very long. Maria studies the Holy Book, says her daily prayers and wonders if God is watching her. She dreams, like her mother, of unstitching the seam of her life. It is her neighbour, Bablu, the Imitator of Frogs, who both excites and repulses Maria by showing her a yellowing pornographic magazine, but it is Mala, a girl her own age who comes to work in their house, whose wise eyes and wicked smile makes her dizzy with longing. When she moves to New England for university at eighteen Maria meets Yameen, a man who lives in a desperately squalid apartment in Jersey City, woos her with phone calls and a marathon night of drinking in New York bars, and is not what he seems... From Dhaka to New York, this is a candid and moving account of growing up and growing away, a meditation on why people leave their homes and why they sometimes find it difficult to return. Beloved Strangers is an unforgettable memoir marking the arrival of a brilliant new voice from Bangladesh.
Dhaka S Changing Landscape
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Author : Rita Afsar
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-05
Dhaka S Changing Landscape written by Rita Afsar and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-05 with Business & Economics categories.
Between 1991 and 2010, Dhaka’s population more than doubled to 15 million. Simultaneously, the city’s contribution to the national economy almost trebled. Clearly, population growth was accompanied by an unmistakable trend of economic growth, and a significant decline in urban poverty and income inequality. On the other hand, Dhaka’s high population density exacerbated serious environmental challenges, and it was soon ranked as one of the world’s least livable cities. In the context of these contradictory signals of rapid urbanization, Dhaka’s Changing Landscape sets to answer three most intriguing questions: Are the poorer segments of urban population, which migrate with dreams for better lives, benefitting from positive economic trends? Are these benefits sustainable? Are these benefits creating scope for this group to have a stake in the city’s growing prosperity? By studying 600 households and applying comparative analysis over a span of 20 years, the authors examine demographic and economic trends to understand the patterns, scale, and complexity of urban poverty, income inequality, and rural–urban migration. Going beyond the space and poverty debate, they enlighten the readers about the quality of life questions, sustainability matters, and gender and generational roles and relations necessary to understand qualitative transformation and migrants’ prospects for a better future.
The Book Of Dhaka
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Author : Arunava Sinha
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Book Of Dhaka written by Arunava Sinha and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Women War And The Making Of Bangladesh
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Author : Yasmin Saikia
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-10
Women War And The Making Of Bangladesh written by Yasmin Saikia and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-10 with History categories.
Bangladeshi women recall the sexualized violence of the war of 1971, fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan.
Seventy Years In A Shaky Subcontinent
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Author : Habibuz Zaman
language : en
Publisher: Janus Publishing Company Lim
Release Date : 1999
Seventy Years In A Shaky Subcontinent written by Habibuz Zaman and has been published by Janus Publishing Company Lim this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Bangladesh categories.
An account of the author's experiences in the Indian sub-continent, living through a period of partition and independence, with an introduction to political developments and a socio-economic scenario.
Dhaka Memories Or Lost
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Author : Philip Ursprung
language : en
Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess
Release Date : 2017
Dhaka Memories Or Lost written by Philip Ursprung and has been published by Scheidegger and Spiess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Architectural photography categories.
Upon setting foot in Dhaka, it becomes clear that this is a city steeped in history. One of the oldest settlements in Bangladesh, it is today among the largest cities in the world, and rapid, often unplanned, urbanization has vastly outpaced sustainability, threatening the historic buildings and communities that make up the city's cultural soul. But, despite bursting at the seams, Dhaka's six centuries of history are still visible if we are to look carefully in the shadows of the tall buildings, in the spaces between the speeding cars. Dhaka-based Kashef Chowdhury's camera captures a record of the capital city--of the local character that may soon be lost due to urban development. In Chowdhury's photographs, a woman hangs sheets of polythene to dry and resell, a blind man sings mystic love songs. Other photographs reflect Dhaka's state of social and cultural flux, like an image of weary night-shift workers returning from work in a wholesale market in the late morning or of the barely visible side lights of a truck concealed to prevent theft. Chowdhury is one of South Asia's most renowned architects, and Dhaka: Memories or Lost constitutes his deeply personal tribute to the city.
Who Is A Muslim
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Author : Maryam Wasif Khan
language : en
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-19
Who Is A Muslim written by Maryam Wasif Khan and has been published by Fordham University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary Pakistan—popular novels, short stories, television serials—is formed around a question that is and historically has been at the core of early modern and modern Western literatures. The question “Who is a Muslim?,” a constant concern within eighteenth-century literary and scholarly orientalist texts, the English oriental tale chief among them, takes on new and dangerous meanings once it travels to the North-Indian colony, and later to the newly formed Pakistan. A literary-historical study spanning some three centuries, this book argues that the idea of an Urdu canon, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.