Here are some photos from my recent sojourn in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where I spent some time this month visiting friends and chasing a few stories (some of which will hopefully come to fruition in the next few weeks). The city — one of the fastest growing metropolises on earth — is so bewilderingly large that one could spend days exploring it on foot. These photos, snapped during a series of walks around Old Dhaka and surrounding areas, document fairly well the small part of the surface that I scratched during my six days in town.
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- Antiques at a market in Gulshan, the home of most of Dhaka’s expats
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- Out and about in Gulshan
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- A crumbling mansion in Arminatola, the former home of Old Dhaka’s Armenian community
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- Interior of the 18th-century Armenian church in Arminatola
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- Statue on the grounds of the old Armenian church, Arminatola
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- An antique vespa rusts in the yard of a decrepit mansion, Old Dhaka
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- Residents of an antique mansion, Old Dhaka
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- A political poster in Old Dhaka
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- A rickshaw driver plies his trade in Old Dhaka
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- Rickshaw drivers pass historic buildings in Old Dhaka
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- Rickshaw drivers in Mutijheel, the commercial heart of Dhaka
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- Misery in the local press, Mutijheel
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- The driver of a CNG, one of the city’s demonic fleet of natural gas-powered trishaws
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- A Bengali family en route in Old Dhaka
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- Watching a game of schoolyard cricket, Old Dhaka
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- Burlap sacks at a rice flour mill, Old Dhaka
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- Mughal-era buildings in Old Dhaka
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- The Buriganga River, Bangladesh’s talisman, as seen from the port of Saderghat
