Tag: Sanjana Ahmed

Anyone living in the city of Dhaka for the past ten years would somewhat agree to the fact that our cosmopolitan lifestyle has shrunken to a level where there is this overarching dominance of very few activities that happens to regulate our performative behavior regarding how we function in the city. In retrospect, the phenomenon of urban recreation offered by our city in the recent years has been so much restricted that we barely can think of alternatives when it comes to get out of the house and spend an afternoon with friends or loved ones. In so doing, we end up “eating out” and probably posing some “selfies” which of course makes its way to Facebook immediately as a gesture of our prosaic engagement with our surrounding environment and subjugating our conscience to the exploitative pragmatism of the cosmopolitan life. Little are we aware of the fact that such behavior is a result of the repetitive character of where we go and what we see in our city to replenish our insatiable inner selves.