A day in Dhaka: Traversing through the city’s architectural history.
#Dhaka , much like its Indian counterpart Kolkata, does not have well defined winters. The air in these months, however, is crisp, and the sun sprightly, lighting up the city affably for people to be out and about with packed picnics. It’s on one such balmy winter day that AD went around town, exploring the built heritage of the city that served as the capital of the Mughal dynasty of Bengal in the 17th century.
It’s a city steeped in history, and is visibly still revelling in its past—one that it has held on to in bits and pieces, interspersed with flashes of a newly designed cityscape that rivals Shanghai or Singapore, if you will. These younger quarters of the Bangladeshi capital lie like a palimpsest over its ancient bones, forming as much of the city’s identity as the old town makes up its soul.
When you drive from the south of town—dotted with bureaucratic buildings, snazzy offices and showrooms—to the older parts about an hour away in peak traffic, you see the surroundings change colour. The facades lose their plaster of paris gloss and give way to lived-in bricks and stones, harking back to Dhaka’s colonial past, or earlier even, to the Mughal era.
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Photography:
@thekuber
Words:
@urseaa
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