Kazi Khaleed Ashraf

There we go again – the shaming of Dhaka as 171st, the third worst, in the liveability index of 173 cities around the world.

Jibanananda Das's Bonolata Sen exposes the poet's profound topographical yearning for a tranquil Bengali small town sanctuary.

Kazi Khaleed Ashraf (KKA): River-realm or river-sphere, or, in a technical sense, river ecology, has been a recurring topic in our many conversations.

In a city called Elias, there is no beginning and there is no end—“it lives imperishably.” The past and the dead are as vital as the rank waters of the Buriganga.

The promise of shelter is broken in plain sight

The first experience of the great river Padma is nothing less than overwhelming, and slightly terrifying. I first came to face the mighty river as a young lad in my teens sometime in April of the momentous year of 1971. My first sighting came with two terrors. My father was fleeing Dhaka with the family with the hope of crossing the river to escape the brutal onslaught of the Pakistan army. Arriving at the banks, there was the Padda (Padma) before us with its glorious panorama. It seemed like an oceanic river, with no sight of the other side, and the frightening prospect of crossing it.

Since the 1960s, Prof Abdur Razzaq wielded considerable influence on the academic and literati circle of his time,.

Claiming that Dhaka is an island is an earnest call for an ecological and nature-oriented restoration of the city, and to experience.