A walk on the wild side - the very interesting 'street plazas' of Dhaka
A walk on the wild side - the very interesting 'street plazas' of Dhaka Faizul Khan Tanim took a stroll down the road in Gulshan and Banani to discover the thriving street life and finds quite a few bargains and deals on offer Street life in Asia is always vibrant and alive, step out on the streets of most countries and you will see life is lived to the fullest on the roadside. Dhaka is no different; here one can find some of the most amazing sights and scenes as well as steals (pun intended). It is vivid, colourful, noisy, stinky but there are quite a few tantalising smells. This bustling and heaving city will show you scenes that are worth capturing on film, a photograoher’s delight and a bargain hunter’s haven. We bring a snap shot of just one stretch of road, along the Gulshan and Banani main roads, where the contrasting realities can not be resisted. We found the rich and the not so rich living side by side, albeit in separate worlds. Which is not to say their paths do ...