Category: Travel

• Thursday Doors : Gulshan’s beautiful gates (2)

  

  With enormous gates and a lot of security at buildings and homes in Gulshan, this is as far as I’ll be able to go in the area. Therefore, I’ve decided to name the series as ‘Gulshan’s gates’ rather than ‘ Dhaka doors’. Gulshan is a planned model town that was founded in 1961. The Gulshan…

  Smitha V

  November 17, 2022

  Experiences, Photography, Travel

  #bangladesh, #dhakadiaries, #diaryentry, #gates, #gulshan, #photographs, #thursdaydoors, #travelogue

• Wordless Wednesdays: Decked ahead of Christmas

  

  I saw this cycle rickshaw driver as I was shopping for crockery and I just had to take a picture. He was definitely successful in making heads turn- talk about product differentiation. Only, I can’t imagine how it must have felt wearing that headgear and jacket in the sweltering afternoon sun. The seat may be…

  Smitha V

  November 16, 2022

  Photography, Travel

  #cyclerickshaws, #decked, #dhakadiaries, #photography, #streetphotography, #wordlesswednesdays

• Dhaka diaries: In search of a ‘temple’

  

  On Friday, we went in search of a temple for our new home. Unaware of where to find one and with the lack of Amazon in the country, we asked the priest who had come a few days earlier, on the 27th of October, to perform the housewarming puja. This is a prayer done by…

  Smitha V

  November 7, 2022

  Experiences, Travel

  #bangladesh, #culture, #dhakadiaries, #dhakeshwari, #diaryentry, #explore, #shankaris, #temple, #tourism, #travelogue, #vrindavanstores

• Thursday Doors: Dhaka’s beautiful doors (1)

  

  This is my first post in what I hope will be a series of posts on doors in Dhaka. People here believe in investing in doors. Doors here represent their purpose in every way – enormous in size, made of solid wood (teak and mahogany from Burma and Chittagong) or metal with security cameras and…

  Smitha V

  November 5, 2022

  Experiences, Photography, Travel

  #bangladesh, #dhaka, #dhakadiaries, #expatlife, #newplace, #photography, #thursdaydoors

• Dhaka diaries: The first fortnight here

  

  As of today, we’ve finished a little more than a fortnight. I have been procrastinating writing this post as I find the hotel room uninspiring. It doesn’t matter that the writing table overlooks the canal or that the big French windows give me an unhindered view of the sky, the brick-red rooftop of the American…

  Smitha V

  October 30, 2022

  Experiences, Poetry, Travel

  #bangladesh, #dhakadiaries, #diary, #furniture, #life, #people, #restaurantsindhaka, #shoppingindhaka, #travelogue, #truth, change, Poetry