Despite a massive drive by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) to clear Dhaka’s footpaths of hawkers not long ago, a recent report by The Daily Star has found many areas reoccupied already.

While reclaiming pavements, govt must ensure vendors’ livelihoods are protected.

On the footpath next to the General Post Office in the capital, Sohel Howlader sells children’s clothes from a small table.

It’s a 10-minute walk from Farmgate’s Ananda Cinema Hall to the Panthapath intersection through Green Road. However, it takes 20 minutes to cross this 700-metre road, thanks to illegal occupants of the footpath

What is it about our own thoughts that are so awful that we cannot spend a minute alone with them? There is only one way to find out. Unplug, go outside, and walk.

The stories come alive when you walk in the city and meet the faces that form the mass.